Business Excellence Leader, Site Operations

Business Excellence Leader, Site Operations
, Opelika, Alabama

• Area of Interest Technical Project/Program Management
• Employment Type Full time
• Requisition Number R11336
• Shift Regular

This role is not available for any form of immigration sponsorship or support, including completion of the Form I-983 training plan required for STEM OPT.

Position Summary:

Leader of all processes related to discovery, prioritization, and execution of continuous improvement and cost savings projects for a site or large department. Trusted consultant, facilitator, and coach to site‑leadership, peers, and hourly associates. Project and program management expert with clear mastery of green belt lean systems tools, with the ability to lead an organization through execution and sustainment. Learn‑by‑doing teacher with a bias for action and direct accountability to respective site results.

Expected to support multiple sites on key projects, tools, or initiatives as needed for personal and company development in our operational excellence journey.

Responsibilities:

• Owns the site's continuous improvement roadmap and culture development with strong dotted‑line responsibility to the site leader
• Models behavior expected of the team – creator of vision, purpose, and measurement against perfection, not budgets or historical performance
• Directly leads the roll‑out and implementation of chosen Lean‑based tools consistent with Pharmavite Operational Excellence Vitality System
• Manages and measures work; lays out and executes clear strategies for project & change management
• Leads site cost/inventory/improvement savings, development, and adherence to prioritization and tracking
• Partners with finance and industrial engineering organizations on developing approaches to improve understanding of losses and waste consistent with the Zero‑Based Analysis approach
• Supports analysis of operational and financial performance and translates the information into meaningful metrics, feedback, and action
• Acts as a guide for consistent Daily Operations approach across facilities, including:
  Review and response for corrective actions as part of daily meetings, shift handoff, and action item creation (PDCA)
• Champions and partners with plant management to engage the hourly workforce in driving daily improvements
• Creates an energizing work environment that supports the Company’s high‑performance culture while ensuring an efficient and flexible organization
• Effective communicator across levels; motivator of hourly employees who can manage vision and purpose as the operational excellence champion for the site

Education:

• Requires a four‑year college or university degree in supply chain, engineering, accounting, or chemistry/biology, or related field, or equivalent (3‑5 years) operational excellence/continuous improvement relevant experience.

Certification:

• Dependent on site needs and current state in organizational roadmap – various certifications and/or implementation experiences may be relevant and/or required. Green belt or higher experience with Lean and/or Six Sigma is required.

Experience:

• Requires two to three years of post‑collegiate work experience minimum
• Plant or warehouse experience in a strong, continuous improvement environment
  
  Implementation experience of key Lean/TPM continuous improvement tools
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects through implementation
• Prior training experience
• Prefer consumer product goods (CPG) or high‑speed, repetitive manufacturing experience

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Lean Systems Green Belt skills, including value stream mapping and design, visual management, 5S, SMED/rapid changeover, standard work/flow, cell/model cell, 3P (production preparation process), jidoka, poka yoke, business process mapping/lean office.
• Leadership, not just a participant, of Kaizen/Improvement Events
• Ability to manage via influence at all levels of the organization
• Ability to plan, organize, coordinate, and schedule multiple tasks with minimal supervision and adjust to changing priorities and assignments
• Ability to create, cultivate, and manage vision and purpose – not just tactical execution
• Solid proficiency in MS Office Suite, including Excel, Visio,…