Manufacturing Excellence Manager

3340 Louisville Distilling Company; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

3340 Louisville Distilling Company is seeking a Manufacturing Excellence lead focused on TPM deployment and continuous improvement across our distillery and packaging operations.

You will drive maintenance governance, loss elimination and reliability initiatives, leveraging DMAIC, PDCA and A3 methodologies to deliver measurable performance gains.

Qualifications

• Experience leading TPM deployment across manufacturing areas.
• Proven ability to drive losses reduction and reliability improvements.
• Strong problem-solving discipline using structured methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead TPM deployment, governance, and sustainment across distillery operations.
• Provide manufacturing excellence support across distillery, packaging, maintenance, and logistics.
• Build area loss trees and prioritize the improvement pipeline to reduce losses.
• Improve OEE by addressing availability, performance and quality losses.
• Strengthen Tier Management System routines and daily direction setting.
• Facilitate Root Cause Analysis using A3, PDCA, DMAIC, 5 Whys, and Fishbone.

Skills

TPM deployment

Autonomous Maintenance

OEE improvement

Root Cause Analysis

DMAIC

PDCA

5 Whys

Fishbone diagrams

A3 problem solving

Tools

DMAIC toolkit

A3

PDCA cycle

Job description

RESPONSIBILITIES - WITH OUR CONSUMER AT THE HEART YOUR KEY FOCUS WILL BE

• TPM Deployment & Governance: Lead the deployment, maturation and sustainment of Total Productive Manufacturing across assigned manufacturing areas, including Autonomous Maintenance, Planned Maintenance, Focused Improvement, Quality Maintenance, Education & Training, Early Equipment Management and Safety, Health & Environment, as applicable.
• Flexible Manufacturing Scope: Provide Manufacturing Excellence support based on business priorities across distillery, bulk processing, blending, bottling, packaging, maintenance, utilities, aging, warehouse, internal logistics and other Supply operations.
• Loss Elimination: Build and maintain area loss trees, prioritize the improvement pipeline, and lead structured initiatives to eliminate chronic and sporadic losses affecting Safety, Quality, Service, Cost, Productivity, Reliability and Employee Engagement.
• OEE & Reliability: Improve equipment effectiveness and process performance by addressing Availability, Performance and Quality losses through centerlining, CIL optimization, changeover reduction, breakdown elimination, defect handling and condition restoration.
• Tier Management System (TMS): Strengthen TMS routines, visual management, Daily Direction Setting, escalation, action tracking, leader standard work and disciplined follow-through at the appropriate tier levels.
• Problem Solving: Facilitate Root Cause Analysis and structured problem solving using A3, PDCA, DMAIC, 5 Whys, Fishbone