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Sr Manager Operational Excellence

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United States , Asheboro

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The Sr. Operational Excellence Manager, the role is to manage the activities of plant operational excellence personnel and lead continuous improvement initiatives within the multi-sites/plants in your region. You will be responsible for implementing strategies, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance operational efficiency, streamline processes, and optimize performance on a multiple plants scale. You will collaborate with site management and cross-functional teams to identify improvement opportunities, establish and share best practices, and foster a culture of operational excellence. Sr. OpEX Manage role is to lead by example in Lean standards and Kaizen principle.

Job Responsibility:

  • Develop the lean competences of sites of the region and help sites to become autonomous in continuous improvement management
  • Deploy Global Lean Strategies and the associated standards, methodologies, and tools in the responsible sites/plants in region
  • Work closely with regional manufacturing directors/Plant/Site Managers, and Plant / Site OpEX Managers to define lean priorities, action plans and approaches
  • Make timely diagnosis of lean methodologies and tools and practice On Job Training on his/her sites
  • Collaborate with site-level Opex Managers to drive Kaizen workshop execution and monitor progress
  • Coach Plant operation teams: Plant/Site Managers, Production Managers, Plant / Site OpEX Managers, Production Supervisors et al to deliver training sessions, workshops, and coaching to enhance Lean knowledge and skills within the region
  • Ensure consistency in approach, share best practices, and facilitate knowledge transfer among different locations, promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement across all sites
  • Participate in the definition of lean budget guidelines
  • Establishes performance metrics and monitors progress towards improvement goals
  • Able to analyze data and performance reports from each site to identify trends, areas of concern, and opportunities for improvement
  • Report performance updates to senior management and provide insights for decision-making
  • Standardization and best practice sharing: He/she promotes standardization of OpEx practices and processes across the region
  • He/she facilitates the sharing of best practices, success stories, and lessons learned among different sites
  • He/she develops and maintain a repository of tools, templates, and guidelines to support continuous improvement efforts
  • Change management and stakeholder engagement: Implementing Lean or OpEx initiatives at a regional/multi-plants level, requires effective change management and stakeholder engagement
  • Able to collaborate with site leadership, functional heads, and employees at various levels to gain buy-in, address resistance, and ensure successful adoption of Lean practices
  • He/she communicates the benefits and impact of improvement initiatives and provide guidance throughout the change process
  • Support crisis site with task force working group
  • Support the Plant/Site Managers, Production Managers and Plant / Site OpEX Managers to understand the lean strategies and apply the lean tools
  • Support the production supervisors to understand the importance of the respect of the standards and their improvement role
  • Ensure that Plant/Site OpEX Managers network is fulfilled at right level for success
  • Manage the Plant / Site OpEX Managers network of the region: annual professional competences appraisal, contribution & validation to recruitment, definition of training plan, validation of annual appraisal and manage detection/growing of local lean potentials
  • Organize network meeting and On Job Training
  • Organize the cross sites sharing of good practices within the product family or region
  • Ensure that lean rules are taken into account in new projects at right time
  • Validate the Sites lean deployment plan vs Global directives & instructions, and Sites Priorities, including smart factory (industrial 4.0/digital tools) development, and support their deployment
  • Help the Plant / Site Managers identify opportunities for SQDCIP improvement
  • Deploy and follow Global initiatives within his/her region
  • Check through a regular presence on every Site of his/her region that Sites are working on appropriate priorities
  • Agent of region lean culture change
  • Coach Plant / Site Managers : Plant, Production, OpEX, Production & Supply Chain support functions on lean processes implementation
  • Check regularly genba in depth the proper deployment of lean roadmaps and ensure a close follow up of progress plans
  • Challenge the budget, lean related financial indicators of sites in budget preparation phase
  • Validate, challenge & follow Direct Labor and OEE improvement actions
  • Ensure a regional lean reporting, KOS metrics correct
  • Lean mission report within 3 working days after site visit, share with site and regional management visit summary and quarterly focus alignment
  • Contribute to the improvement of Global lean standards & tools and external benchmarking
  • Participate to global lean workshops , Committees & Working group
  • Contribute in selected Global lean initiatives upon request
  • Troubleshooting and help building progress roadmaps for sites when in crisis
  • Critical workshop, task force team driver

Requirements:

  • Bachelors degree required, prefer STEM or Industrial Engineering area of study
  • 6-Sigma greenbelt or black belt is plus
  • At least 10 years with demonstrated success in manufacturing, quality, engineering, lean/6-sigma, and /or supply chain experience
  • Knowledge and practice experience of the following tools: Strong leadership, communication, teaching, and coaching skills
  • 5S and visual controls
  • Standard work
  • OEE and time study
  • Muda Hunting
  • Pull system/ Kanban
  • SMED
  • TPM
  • VSM

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Job Posted:
April 03, 2026

Work Type:
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