VES Leader, Fundamentals North America

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every improvement initiative.
• Collaborating with an inclusive, cross-functional team to deliver sustainable business results.

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every improvement initiative.
• Collaborating with an inclusive, cross-functional team to deliver sustainable business results.

Imagine yourself...

It’s all possible with a role at Videojet
, a Veralto company. You have likely purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week. Videojet is a world leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding and marking products, consumables, and software solutions. Our technologies help ensure the safety and authenticity of products sold across food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial markets worldwide.

As part of the Videojet team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll work on improvements that have an everyday impact on customers, associates, and business performance. Along the way, you’ll have opportunities to deepen your expertise, strengthen your leadership capabilities, and make your mark on our business and your career.

Reporting to the Director, Veralto Enterprise System (VES) Lean, North America
, the VES Leader, Fundamentals North America will own, deploy, and sustain VES fundamentals across Videojet in North America. The role is primarily focused on Operations and Manufacturing lean processes, while partnering across Supply Chain, Quality, Customer Care, Finance, Sales, Service, Engineering, Product Management, HR, and other functions to strengthen performance and build VES capability.

• Drive measurable and sustainable improvement in safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, inventory, customer experience, and other VES and business KPIs.
• Partner with Operations and Manufacturing leaders to identify performance gaps, prioritize opportunities, and implement countermeasures that improve flow, productivity, quality, delivery, cost, and standard work adherence.
• Coach teams in VES fundamentals, including structured problem solving, daily and visual management, leadership standard work, kaizen, 5S, process mapping, KPI reviews, and Gemba observation.
• Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives that strengthen end-to-end processes, clarify ownership, improve handoffs, eliminate waste, and connect operational improvements to customer and business outcomes.
• Plan, facilitate, and sustain kaizen activity through effective pre-work, chartering, execution, follow-up, sustainment reviews, countermeasure tracking, practitioner development, and leadership coaching.
• Use KPI trends, data analysis, and Gemba observations to identify root causes, measure impact, prepare concise executive updates, and support Policy Deployment and business priorities.
• Travel approximately 20-40% across North America to manufacturing, distribution, field, and customer sites.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience deploying continuous improvement, lean, or VES fundamentals in Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, or another process-intensive environment.
• Demonstrated experience applying structured problem solving, daily management, visual management, standard work, kaizen, process mapping, 5S, and Gemba-based improvement methods.
• Demonstrated record of improving operational KPIs such as safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, inventory, throughput, lead time, or standard work adherence.
• Experience facilitating kaizen events, Gemba walks, daily management reviews, root cause analysis, sustainment audits, and cross-functional problem-solving sessions.
• Experience building lean or VES capability through coaching, training, practitioner development, certification support, leadership standard work, and sustainment governance.
• Proficiency with data analysis, spreadsheets, presentations, and statistical or analytical tools used to assess performance…