Operational Excellence Lead — Manufacturing Process Improvement

Champion Home Builders, Inc.; Greenfield Township (PA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k Plan with Company Match

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Medical

Rx

Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance

Job summary

Champion Home Builders, Inc. is seeking an Operational Excellence Specialist to join our Claysburg, PA manufacturing facility. The role focuses on identifying opportunities to improve quality, productivity, safety and efficiency across plant operations.

You will lead operational excellence initiatives, develop standard work, and train the production workforce while collaborating with plant management and support departments to drive results.

Qualifications

• Close attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Strong commitment to high performance
• Familiar with a manufacturing environment

Responsibilities

• In conjunction with plant management, identify opportunities for plant operations improvements, including all aspects of quality, productivity, safety, inventory, turnover, etc.
• Function as the local leader for implementing and coordinating operational excellence initiatives.
• Perform periodic plant assessments with plant management, identify high warranty or service quality issues, review top "problems per home" and identify corrective actions.
• Publish standards and process requirements in designated plant stations. Maintain and update standard work processes.
• Develop and implement quarterly and periodic operational excellence plans with GM and plant management, track and report results.
• Ensure production workforce is properly trained in process and manufacturing methods.
• Assist plant management with requests to address manufacturing productivity problems.
• Assist management in problem solving and training solutions in all departments.
• Design, develop, and implement training for operational excellence of safety performance, quality performance and productivity throughout the plant location.
• Maintain records and statistics to support training history by employee by topic.
• Work with Quality Department, Human Resources Department, and Production Supervision to assure training meets all requirements.
• Identify inefficiencies in the manufacturing process and work with plant management to improve efficiency.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Coaching/mentoring

Communication skills

Microsoft Office

Manufacturing environment familiarity

Education

Some college or university coursework; knowledge of building and construction (manufactured housing as plus)

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Job description

Champion Home Builders, Inc. is seeking an Operational Excellence Specialist to join our Claysburg, PA manufacturing facility. The role focuses on identifying opportunities to improve quality, productivity, safety and efficiency across plant operations.

You will lead operational excellence initiatives, develop standard work, and train the production workforce while collaborating with plant management and support departments to drive results.