Operational Excellence & NPI Leader

Molex; Región Sur; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch Industries is seeking an Operational Excellence and NPI Manager to lead deployment of our operational excellence strategy with a bias toward action across the site. You will mentor leaders, mature daily management and standard work, and drive Lean initiatives to remove waste and improve throughput while ensuring robust NPI readiness.

You will collaborate with safety, quality, engineering and business leaders to deliver measurable business value, manage multiple complex projects, and report

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
• 7 years’ experience in Lean manufacturing, 5S methodology, and industrial engineering tools.
• Demonstrated, hands‑on leadership of site‑level Operational Excellence and NPI Programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment of the operational excellence strategy using the Molex Operating System with a bias toward action to drive measurable continuous improvement and cost savings across the site.
• Serve as a trusted leader reporting directly to the Site Director, influencing strategy, prioritizing initiatives, and representing operational excellence and NPI on the site leadership team.
• Mentor, develop, and empower Operational Excellence leaders and frontline teams through Principle Based Management, encouraging principled entrepreneurship, challenging the status quo, and creating sustainable value.
• Design, implement, and mature tiered daily management, visual controls, and standard work to create predictable, repeatable operations and long‑term performance.
• Identify, prioritize, and lead Lean and NPI improvement initiatives (kaizen, VSM, SMED, TPM, 5S/6S, etc.) to remove waste, improve throughput, and ensure robust New Product Introduction readiness.
• Build and manage the improvement pipeline: quantify benefits, track forecast vs. realized cost improvement savings, close projects with sustainable countermeasures, and align outcomes to site business goals.
• Coach and deploy problem solving and rigorous root cause analysis across the organization; ensure verification, learning, and standardization of successful countermeasures.
• Partner with safety, quality, engineering, and business leaders to ensure all improvements preserve compliance and safety, surface risks early, and deliver measurable business value.
• Manage multiple large projects and kaizens concurrently—developing schedules, milestones, and contingency plans—while communicating status and results clearly to the Site Director and stakeholders.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

5S

Industrial engineering

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering

Tools

Kaizen

Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

SMED

TPM

5S/6S

Job description

Koch Industries is seeking an Operational Excellence and NPI Manager to lead deployment of our operational excellence strategy with a bias toward action across the site. You will mentor leaders, mature daily management and standard work, and drive Lean initiatives to remove waste and improve throughput while ensuring robust NPI readiness.

You will collaborate with safety, quality, engineering and business leaders to deliver measurable business value, manage multiple complex projects, and report