Operations Excellence Manager

What you'll do:

Provide engineering and project support to Americold facilities.

Drive labor productivity and inventory control improvements through engineered labor standards, performance-based incentive roll-out, ideate and support the execution and sustainment of continuous improvement initiatives.

Leverage dashboards to monitor site-level labor, inventory, and service performance, identify issues, and drive corrective actions across all assigned sites.

• Leverage dashboards to monitor site-level labor, inventory, and service performance, identify issues, and drive corrective actions across all assigned sites.

• Identify and drive productivity improvement, process enhancement, and inventory control initiatives through continuous improvement projects.

• Develop, validate, and maintain time-studied standards.

• Calculate and implement performance incentives.

• Ensure proper change management to sustain assigned projects.

• Provide training to operations teams on labor management, inventory control, process improvement tools, and associated systems.

• Evaluate and make recommendations for process improvements.

• Evaluate material handling equipment requirements as needed.

• Keep abreast of the latest technology in warehousing and evaluate for applications.

• Develop project scopes, specifications, and estimates as needed.

• Conduct audits and comparative site analyses to ensure compliance, identify performance gaps, and establish benchmarks for inventory control excellence.

• Assist with improving productivity and reducing costs.

• Create scheduling tools to capture work content.

• Own 5 Habits and labor management system performance improvements.

What Experience and Education You Need:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Industrial Engineering or equivalent degree, such as Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or Logistics, is required.

• 3+ years of work experience in Industrial Engineering or combined equivalent experience with a master's degree in Industrial Engineering or related field.

• Experience in developing engineered labor standards.

• Continuous improvement experience and knowledge of CI methodologies required.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally.

• Must be able to utilize problem-solving techniques to identify root causes of failures and solutions to meet targets.

• Strong business planning and analytical skills, including market intelligence, metrics, and financial analysis.

• Must be self-motivated and self-directing.

• Knowledge of distribution center/logistics concepts - understanding of warehousing best practices.

• Willingness to travel 50 - 75%.

What Could Set You Apart:

• Experience within the distribution/warehouse/logistics industry preferred.

• Proficient in RF Scanning and Warehouse Management Systems preferred.

• Experience in semi and fully automated material handling syst...