Operational Excellence Manager

Operational Excellence Leader

We are seeking an experienced Operational Excellence Leader to support Lean Daily Management and drive performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People (SQDCP). The ideal candidate will champion Lean principles across operations, embedding standard work, problem solving, and daily management systems. This role is vital in facilitating and coaching structured methods to ensure root causes are addressed and sustainable solutions are implemented.

Responsibilities

• Champion Lean principles across operations, embedding standard work, standard problem solving, and daily management systems.
• Facilitate and coach the use of A3 problem solving, ensuring teams apply structured methods to address root causes and implement sustainable solutions.
• Lead Kaizen events, value stream mapping, and 6S initiatives, systematically identifying and eliminating waste while building continuous improvement into daily operations.
• Identify and implement waste reduction opportunities across processes, ensuring gains in efficiency, flow, and productivity.
• Build and refine business processes tied directly to Lean fundamentals, ensuring operational, tactical, and strategic goals are connected to drive both business and operational excellence.
• Partner with manufacturing and operations leaders to ensure process optimization is sustained at both technical and management levels.
• Collaborate with managers to cascade strategic objectives into measurable daily actions by applying strategy deployment principles.
• Map, analyze, and optimize business processes across operations, ensuring alignment between manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, and commercial functions.
• Build scalable workflows and governance structures that enhance efficiency and cross-functional collaboration.
• Develop metrics and dashboards to measure process performance and business impact.
• Take a hands-on role in building data capture methods, analyzing results, and ensuring data is actively used in daily, tactical, and long-term decision-making.

Essential Skills

• Operational Excellence
• Lean Six Sigma
• Business Process Management
• Value Stream Mapping
• Kaizen
• 5S
• Lean Manufacturing

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with Business Process Management (BPM) software

Work Environment

The role involves collaboration with various departments including manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, and commercial functions. The environment encourages cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement, utilizing Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. Dress code is business casual, with an emphasis on maintaining a professional and collaborative atmosphere.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $130000.00 - $150000.00/yr.

This company offers health, dental, vision, and 401k. They have an OAP and a HDHP & HSA plan. They have other benefits as well including life insurance and other benefits.

They offer decent vacation as well. Usually 15 PTO and 5 anything days starting out.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Milwaukee,WI.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 28, 2025.