Process Improvement Manager

Ingersoll Rand; Rockford (IL); On-site; USD 76,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Coaching

Flexible hours

Job summary

Ingersoll Rand in Rockford, IL is seeking a Process Improvement Manager to drive cross-functional initiatives that connect engineering, operations, and frontline users.

You'll own on-site workflow improvements, balance speed with quality, and coach teams to adopt lean practices while maintaining candor and transparency across stakeholders.

The role requires pragmatic problem-solving, willingness to relocate to Illinois, and translating metrics into concrete actions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience driving cross-functional collaboration across teams.
• Ability to balance speed with quality in delivery.
• Willingness to relocate to Rockford, IL or on-site availability.

Responsibilities

• Lead process improvement initiatives touching engineering, operations and users.
• Develop and implement on-site workflow improvements with measurable impact.
• Coach teams to adopt lean practices and KPI-based decisions.
• Identify gaps between specs and delivered results and address them.
• Maintain candor and clarity in communications across stakeholders.
• Tackle unglamorous maintenance tasks to keep operations smooth.
• Ensure safety protocols are followed in all improvements.
• Monitor general metrics and dig in when anomalies appear.

Skills

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Organization

Job description

Help shape what comes next at Ingersoll Rand as a Process Improvement Manager working on general that reaches real users. The proposition holds together — $76,000 - $122,000, 8 years, an IL base, and ownership the rest of the market rarely grants.

Key Responsibilities

• Build the Attention Management habits a manager role can lean on for years
• Pair Adaptability fluency with the patience to explain it plainly
• Follow safety protocols and best practices at all times
• Notice the deeply collaborative gap between the spec and the shipped thing
• Show up for the unglamorous general maintenance nobody volunteers for
• Carry general knowledge that doesn't live in any wiki yet
• Keep manager expectations grounded in what the freelance role can deliver
• Notice when a general metric is lying and dig in

What You'll Bring

• Practical command of Cross-Functional Collaboration, with bonus points for Organization
• Comfort being accountable for an empathy-led outcome in a freelance role
• An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent
• Prior experience working on-site in Rockford, IL, or willingness to relocate

Ingersoll Rand earns its keep by making general predictable, a candor-rich promise it has quietly kept across IL. We keep our process light so engineers can spend their energy on Persuasion and Delegation, not bureaucracy.

Our Ingersoll Rand offer is built to keep you: $76,000 - $122,000, coaching, benefits, and hours that flex around the IL life you want.

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