Operational Excellence Lead — Lean, Quality & Impact

Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope; Albertville (MN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-competitive benefits

PTO and floating holidays

Pay-for-performance with annual raises

Job summary

Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope is seeking an Operational Excellence Manager to lead our OpEx program across manufacturing sites in the US. The role focuses on implementing the OpEx system to drive zero harm, improve quality, reduce waste, and maximize equipment performance.

You will develop site OpEx strategies, coach teams, and oversee quality initiatives with frontline leaders. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience with kaizen events, strong technical knowledge of manufacturing processes, and

Qualifications

• Experience leading kaizen events and implementing operational excellence tools.
• Strong technical knowledge of manufacturing processes and logistics flows.
• Experience developing and implementing quality systems (PFMEA, control plans, standardized work, layered audits).
• Ability to influence teams through collaboration.
• Knowledge of Lean tools (6S, Kanban, Ishikawa, A3, 5-Why, MTTR, MTBF, Poka-yoke, JIT, value-stream mapping).

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage OBE Operational Excellence system to support and drive site team to achieve zero harm, improve quality, reduce waste, and maximize process and equipment performance.
• Develop site OpEx strategy, initiatives, activities, coaching and training material.
• Identify areas of process improvement opportunities and work with Front Line Leaders to execute specific OpEx production projects
• Oversee and Develop our Quality initiatives and metrics by working with operations to drive best practices that keep us on the forefront for quality in the industry.

Skills

Kaizen events

Lean tools

Operational excellence

Technical aptitude

Quality systems

Tools

PFMEA

Control plans

Standardized work

Layered audits

Job description

Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope is seeking an Operational Excellence Manager to lead our OpEx program across manufacturing sites in the US. The role focuses on implementing the OpEx system to drive zero harm, improve quality, reduce waste, and maximize equipment performance.

You will develop site OpEx strategies, coach teams, and oversee quality initiatives with frontline leaders. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience with kaizen events, strong technical knowledge of manufacturing processes, and