• Supports the Ryder Continuous Improvement culture across the Business Unit/Vertical • Actively promoting and facilitating the use of continuous improvement methods to support new and existing operations • Manage the CI resources across multiple operations • Influence, drive, and manage change through data driven CI, Engineering, and Automation efforts to deliver higher levels of performance in safety, quality, delivery, cost and growth • Leverage data analytics, engineering methodologies, and all Ryder lean tools to enable root cause identification and elimination • Supervise a team of continuous improvement engineering and quality professionals • Manage performance and lead employment decisions • Manages multiple and complex Supply Chain projects • Regularly interacts with Senior Management and/or customer(s) • Lead the development and execution of strategy, scorecarding and key performance indicator action plans • Work with Operational leadership to conduct assessments of critical site and business needs • Ensure the development of a thorough, effective and timely continuous improvement plan to address the top business needs at Ryder sites • Ensure process improvement activities are driven to achieve dramatic improvement in key business metrics • Provide training, coaching, and mentoring for sustainable business improvements • Coach business owners to use Engineering, Data Analysis and Lean methods to achieve operational excellence • Support start-ups, retrofits and expansions including pricing inputs, go-live and steady state certifications