Ops Excellence Lead: Drive Throughput & OEE

Bausch + Lomb; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Bausch + Lomb is seeking an Operations Excellence Execution Lead to diagnose constraints and drive sustained improvements at manufacturing sites. You will lead hands-on deployment of OpEx levers, collaborate with operators and engineers, and focus on improving OEE, throughput, and capacity while reducing variability.

The role requires a strong analytical mindset, experience in operational excellence methodologies, and the ability to travel up to 75% domestically.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing operations or operational excellence.
• Proven track record delivering improvements in throughput, OEE, capacity, and execution.
• Experience with SMED, bottleneck management, centerlining, and daily management systems.
• Strong analytics using operational data; Excel required; Power BI/SQL/Python preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 75% domestically.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose throughput, flow, scheduling, losses and constraints on the shop floor.
• Lead OpEx levers and stabilize solutions with operators, engineers and supervisors.
• Build analytics views for OEE, throughput, scheduling, inventory and capacity.
• Run scenario analyses to support sequencing and trade-off decisions.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

SQL

Python

Data-driven decisions

Analytical thinking

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Bausch + Lomb is seeking an Operations Excellence Execution Lead to diagnose constraints and drive sustained improvements at manufacturing sites. You will lead hands-on deployment of OpEx levers, collaborate with operators and engineers, and focus on improving OEE, throughput, and capacity while reducing variability.

The role requires a strong analytical mindset, experience in operational excellence methodologies, and the ability to travel up to 75% domestically.