Americas Productivity & Cost Engineering Lead

Vertiv Co; Westerville (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertiv seeks a Manager, Americas Productivity and Cost Engineering to accelerate productivity across Americas plants and major projects. You will own the regional productivity pipeline, validate benefits, and report performance to leadership.

Expect to partner with finance, manufacturing, and operations to improve labor efficiency, conversion costs, and project returns. The role focuses on governance, targeted site interventions, and capability building, with 25% travel to sites in the US and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, or a closely related field.
• Seven plus years of progressive experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, operational excellence, cost reduction, or productivity leadership.
• Demonstrated success delivering measurable productivity and cost improvements in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting multiple plants and influencing plant leaders without direct reporting authority.
• Strong working knowledge of labor standards, work measurement, line balancing, capacity analysis, manufacturing cost structures, and financial benefit validation.
• Ability to connect operational metrics to financial results and clearly distinguish cost avoidance, capacity creation, and realized savings.
• Advanced analytical capability using Microsoft Excel, enterprise data systems, and data-visualization tools.
• Strong project-management, problem-solving, facilitation, and executive-communication skills.
• Professional proficiency in English is required.

Responsibilities

• Establish and own a consistent regional productivity governance process covering all Americas plants and major operations projects.
• Develop plant productivity baselines, targets, and forecasts using earned standard hours, labor hours, conversion cost, material usage, overhead absorption, capacity utilization, and other agreed measures.
• Partner with Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and Manufacturing Sites to conduct targeted industrial engineering studies and standardize methods across the region.
• Review plant and project performance, identify gaps and root causes, and drive recovery plans when benefits or milestones are at risk.
• Prepare concise monthly reporting for operations leadership showing performance to target, projected outcomes, major variances, risks, and decisions required.
• The role has authority to establish regional productivity methods and governance requirements and elevate initiatives that are off plan.

Skills

Labor standards

Financial analysis

Excel

Data visualization

Project management

Executive communication

English proficiency

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in industrial/manufacturing/ mechanical/systems engineering or related

Master’s degree in engineering/operations/MB A (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Data visualization tools

Job description

Vertiv seeks a Manager, Americas Productivity and Cost Engineering to accelerate productivity across Americas plants and major projects. You will own the regional productivity pipeline, validate benefits, and report performance to leadership.

Expect to partner with finance, manufacturing, and operations to improve labor efficiency, conversion costs, and project returns. The role focuses on governance, targeted site interventions, and capability building, with 25% travel to sites in the US and