Director, Operational Excellence

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Director, Operational Excellence (74582)

Requisition
74582
-Posted
- HVAC Segment Leadership (HVAC Segment Leadership)
- Kansas

- Overland Park

Building the people that build the world.

HVAC Segment SPX Technologies’ HVAC Segment delivers mission-critical heating, cooling, and engineered air movement solutions for the world’s most demanding environments — including healthcare, life sciences, data centers, high demand industrial and commercial operations, and essential infrastructure. We operate a market-leading portfolio of trusted brands that set the standard for how HVAC systems are designed, selected, and evolved — delivering purpose-built, sustainable solutions for engineers, owners, and contractors across critical environments worldwide.

Our technologies support environments where performance, reliability, and precision are essential enabling safe, efficient, and resilient operations when it matters most.

How you will make an Impact (Job Summary)

The Director of Operational Excellence is responsible for developing and deploying the operational excellence strategy across the business to drive safety, quality, delivery, cost, and growth objectives. This role leads and supports segment-wide continuous improvement initiatives, manufacturing transformation programs, cost productivity efforts, and business system deployment to improve organizational capability and performance.

Reporting to the VP Operations for the HVAC Segment, the Director of Operational Excellence partners closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Commercial leaders to identify opportunities, remove operational constraints, standardize processes, and improve end-to-end business performance. The role will lead strategic initiatives focused on Lean transformation, capacity optimization, productivity improvement, digital enablement, and operational scalability.

What you can expect in this role (Job Responsibilities)

While each day brings new opportunities at SPX, your core responsibilities will be:

• Partner with site leadership teams to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance.
• Support manufacturing footprint optimization, capacity planning, and operational readiness initiatives.
• Lead efforts to improve factory flow, labor productivity, machine utilization, inventory management, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
• Drive implementation of best practices across multiple facilities and business units.

• Develop and implement a multi-year Operational Excellence roadmap aligned with company growth and profitability objectives.
• Establish operational excellence standards, frameworks, and governance processes across manufacturing and business operations.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify strategic improvement opportunities and prioritize transformation initiatives.
• Champion a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.
• Lead enterprise-wide Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and problem-solving initiatives.
• Drive standard work implementation, visual management systems, value stream mapping, and waste elimination activities.
• Facilitate rapid improvement events and cross-functional improvement workshops.
• Establish sustainable systems that deliver measurable improvements in productivity, throughput, inventory, lead time, and quality.

• Establish and monitor operational KPIs and business performance metrics.
• Develop executive-level scorecards and communicate progress against strategic objectives.
• Identify performance gaps and coordinate corrective actions with functional leaders.
• Ensure improvement projects deliver measurable and sustainable financial results.