Operational Excellence Engineer Sr

Operational Excellence Specialist Senior

The Operational Excellence Specialist Senior serves as a strategic leader, responsible for driving transformational change and fostering a culture of continuous improvement across the organization. This role involves the development and execution of high-impact initiatives aimed at enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and improving overall operational performance. Drawing on extensive experience in AMS methodologies, the Senior OE Specialist provides mentorship to cross-functional teams, manages interns, ensures alignment of improvement efforts with organizational goals, and delivers strategic insights to leadership.

The role emphasizes a proactive approach to identifying opportunities, implementing solutions, sustaining improvements to SQDCP, and champions the AMS culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of Ops initiatives, driving significant impact on operational performance.
• Create new AMS standards and drive culture change across the organization.
• Lead large-scope initiatives across manufacturing and non-manufacturing functions by applying advanced problem-solving methodologies.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and coach in structured problem-solving, training and mentoring teams in a variety of tools while ensuring rigor, consistency, and sustainable results.
• Lead collecting and analyzing operational and process data to identify inefficiencies, constraints, and performance gaps; conduct research on best practices, technologies, and methods to inform solution development and investment decisions.
• Research, propose, lead and execute the creation of projects, defining timelines with safety, quality, and cost in mind.
• Work with the team to meet the service needs/requirements for each project.
• Serves as a trusted partner to all areas of the organization—leveraging real-time data, root cause analysis, and standard work optimization to resolve chronic issues, reduce variability, and enhance throughput. Trains frontline leaders in problem-solving tools and ensures improvement initiatives are tightly aligned with plant priorities and performance goals.

Experience & Skills

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams (required).
• 7+ years in continuous improvement or lean manufacturing deployment (preferred).
• Lean/Six Sigma deployment (preferred).
• Project management (preferred).

Work Environment/Travel Requirements

• Frequent exposure to manufacturing environment with potential exposure to confined space.
• Extended periods of office work on a computer and in team meetings.
• Regional day travel is expected with this role.
• Overnight travel requirements will be variable based on projects and business activities, expected up to 10%.
• Physical Requirements Ability to work in both office and manufacturing environments.

Our Benefits

• Competitive Benefits Package for employees and their dependents (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability)
• Incentive Plans
• 401(k) with employer contribution and match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with employer match
• Paid Time Off (Vacation and Sick Time)
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Wellness Program
• Training and Career Progression

Apogee and our brands are an Equal Opportunity Employer.