Manufacturing Excellence Lead - Canby

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Location:

Canby, OR

As a Manufacturing Excellence Lead, reporting directly to the Plant HR Manager, you will personally design, deliver, facilitate, and sustain manufacturing training and High Performance Team (HPT) practices within the Canby plant. This hands‑on, execution‑focused role is based in the plant environment and does not include direct supervision or people management responsibilities.

• Coordinate the formation of high performance teams.
• Coordinate the development of scorecards and metrics for the high performance team process.
• Review and recommend changes as necessary to meet plant objectives.
• Document high performance team plans.
• Coordinate and track certification process and star guide systems.
• Ensure that all leading indicator information is updated for the teams.
• Ensure support information is accurate and timely.
• Ensure that the monthly results meetings are scheduled and completed.
• Participate in high performance team meetings and ensure effectiveness of the meetings, scorecard data, and effective action plans are developed by the teams.
• Identify the top performing teams on a monthly and annual basis; coordinate recognition of teams.
• Ensure certification process for high performance teams, star points, star guides, and cross‑functional training are effective.
• Prepare and share monthly high performance team results and recommendations with management.
• Ensure high potential team processes are compliant with TS16949, ISO 14001, and all applicable regulations, policies and procedures.
• Ensure the high performance team concepts are understood and used at all levels of the plant.
• Track, maintain, and report training completion, certification status, and HPT metrics; prepare and share monthly summaries with plant leadership and the Plant HR Manager.
• Partner closely with Operations, EHS, Quality, and Maintenance to integrate safety, quality systems, TPM, and Lean principles into training and team practices.

Required

• Experience working directly in a manufacturing environment (training, EHS, maintenance planning, quality, or operations).
• Demonstrated experience delivering hands‑on training or facilitation with hourly employees.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence without authority.
• Bachelor's degree.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Human Resources, Environmental Health & Safety, Psychology, Sociology, or a related field.
• Experience supporting High Performance Teams, Lean manufacturing, TPM, or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Background in EHS, maintenance supervision/planning, or industrial engineering with a strong people‑facing orientation.