Operational Excellence Coordinator

Job Title

Plant Level OpEx Coordinator

Non Exempt

The Skyline Champion Operations Excellence (OpEx) Team is a culture developed in-house with proven lean six sigma tools and process improvement techniques to achieve excellence nationwide. Under the direct supervision of the General Manager, the OpEx Coordinator will lead the plant’s continuous improvement initiatives designed to eliminate waste and non-value-added activities and improve performance in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Inventory.

This position communicates directly with the OpEx Leadership Team and the General Manager to achieve the sustainability of all implementations and reporting efforts. A local OpEx Coordinator will enable plants to reach and aspire to more ambitious operational cost reduction targets. It is essential, therefore, that the tasks assigned to this plant-level position are aligned with reducing costs and lead times, overall maintaining a healthy pipeline of continuous improvement projects.

Champion Home Builders, Inc. has served as a leader in the manufactured housing industry for decades and is one of the largest mobile and modular home builders in North America. Champion offers many factory-built solutions, from single-family and multi-family homes to commercial and government buildings. Our manufactured homes, modular homes, mobile homes, park models, and commercial modular buildings can be found throughout the United States and western Canada.

We act with integrity and respect, building strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees to provide a safe, productive, and enjoyable workplace.

• 401k plan with company match
• Paid vacation
• Paid holidays
• Medical, Rx, Dental, vision, and life insurance

• Safety – Perform all duties in a safe manner, recognize, correct, and report unsafe conditions.
• Attendance – Maintain punctuality and meet or exceed the attendance standards set by the company.
• Productivity – Apply utilization and efficiency to meet or exceed the standards of each assigned duty.
• Team Member – Accomplish all assignments in cooperation with fellow employees and management in a problem‑solving, team environment.
• Quality – Attain a high level of quality in all tasks, services, data input, filing, reports, paperwork, and other job functions.
• Job Improvement – Recognize that each task can be amended and refined for the betterment of the employee and/or company and work toward that improvement.
• Training – Achieve a level of knowledge to ensure highest productivity and quality, and assist in training fellow employees.
• Facilities – Use care and respect when utilizing equipment and facilities. Keep public spaces clean and housekeeping is everyone’s responsibility.

• Lead the plant OpEx efforts in implementing, training, and following up with the plant’s overall OpEx strategy and communicate findings, training materials, and gaps with the OpEx team.
• Develop and execute a training plan for associates, supervisors, and managers to integrate Best Practices into the plant’s culture and daily processes.
• Collect, validate, and analyze performance data, and create reports using spreadsheet tools.
• Assist the plant’s onboarding process and lead it on specific OpEx subjects.
• Take ownership of any OpEx Value Stream Map findings and periodically report progress on the Kaizen Journal.
• Follow through with PVA audits and keep the PVA team updated on progress.
• Ensure proper set up of equipment based on material that the OpEx team generates.
• Ensure that training, tools, best practices, and resources are available to employees at all levels and are utilized appropriately.
• Lead all reporting and root‑cause analysis, coach focused improvement activities and teams to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and inventory.
• Share and coordinate all initiatives with other OpEx team members to ensure consistency.
• Attend regular OpEx calls and follow through with action items.

• Minimum of two (2) years manufacturing, building industry and/or production experience.
• Basic computer skills for Microsoft Office tools.
• Ability…