Operational Excellence Manager

Job Requirements

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The Site Operational Excellence Manager is responsible for driving a culture transformation that embeds Lean Leadership principles throughout the site.

This role serves as a change agent and coach, developing leaders and teams to adopt Lean behaviors, continuous improvement practices, and operational discipline.

The position leads the deployment and sustainment of the site's Operating System, leveraging Lean Management, Daily Management Systems (DMS), Gemba practices, 5S, Standard Work, Structured Problem Solving, and Capacity Planning to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and employee engagement.

Additionally, the role is accountable for coordinating and tracking the execution of the site's productivity initiatives, ensuring delivery of annual savings commitments and operational performance targets.

In this role you can expect to:


* Collaborate closely with the site Leadership Team to align on strategic priorities and set operational, financial, and performance improvement targets.


* Foster a high-performance culture by promoting the use of Agile Action Plans to achieve site-level performance improvement goals.


* Facilitate impactful Improvement Events focused on addressing critical business challenges and driving measurable outcomes.


* Train and coach HPS Key Enablers in the application of HPS mindset, tools, and methodologies.


* Serve as an HPS thought leader, driving cultural transformation and embedding continuous improvement across the organization.


* As a member and rotating facilitator of the Extended Leadership Team, contribute to the achievement of day-to-day site KPIs and operational goals.


* Take accountability for meeting the site productivity budget, identifying opportunities for optimization and efficiency.


* Conduct regular workload and capacity analysis, including departmental reviews of utilization and efficiency to identify productivity gaps.

Use these insights to inform annual budget planning, resourcing, and capital investment.


* Champion a culture of continuous improvement, providing leadership and coaching in the application of HPS core tools such as Structured Problem Solving, Agile Visual Management, Value Stream Mapping and Hoshin Kanri.

Work Experience


* Extensive and proven project management expertise, ideally gained through leading strategic and tactical change initiatives.


* Bachelor's degree in engineering, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or related field.


* Deep knowledge of Lean Management-based Business Systems.


* Significant experience in planning, facilitating, and leading continuous improvement workshops, as well as coaching and suppo...