Senior Operational Excellence Manager

As Senior Operational Excellence Manager, you will report directly to the Site Leader and serve as a key member of the site's senior leadership team, helping set the strategic direction for operational excellence, manufacturing capability, and long-term site performance.

This is a transformational leadership role. You will lead a team of engineers and technicians, advise and partner with directors and senior managers, and mobilize the broader organization to solve our most complex manufacturing challenges. We are looking for a leader who can move seamlessly from the gemba to the leadership table, translating strategy into action and operational insights into long-term competitive advantage.

You will lead the evolution of our manufacturing system by eliminating systemic losses, improving flow and process capability, strengthening Lean/TPS disciplines, and building sustainable problem-solving capability across the organization. At the same time, you will help define the investments, technology, talent, and operating systems required to position Danvers as a Center of Excellence for extrusion and braiding.

Most importantly, you will develop leaders and build a culture of problem solvers, creating the capability and ownership needed for continuous improvement to become how we lead and operate every day. This role is onsite five days a week.

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements and sustains process improvement initiatives utilizing Six Sigma methodologies.
• Defines, designs and implements continuous improvement programs to ensure programs are integrated vertically and horizontally across the organization.
• Defines improvement projects aligned with business strategies.
• Analyzes improvement programs and potential results.
• Facilitates and coaches improvement teams.
• Establishes and maintains performance metrics to measure program success.
• Installs process excellence supports for program governance, project reviews, communications, training, certifications and rewards.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 7+ years of relevant experience in Business Operations, Plant Manufacturing, and/or Engineering OR advanced degree and 5+ years relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong background in holistic operational excellence structures (TPM, VSM, BPM, DBS, TPS, etc.) and the associated tools/techniques.
• Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
• Experience building strategic roadmaps.
• Ability to influence others.
• Solid change management, coaching, and mentoring experience.
• Project management skills with good time management, customer relationship management, conflict resolution, training facilitation, and administrative skills.
• Experience with establishing Voice of Operations/Voice of Customer in the PDP process.
• Proven knowledge and experience in integrating a Quality and continuous improvement culture change.