Regional Deployment Lead - Drive Plant Operations Rollout

Rise Baking Company; California; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Annual bonus eligibility

Incentive and recognition programs

401k contributions

Job summary

Rise Baking Company seeks a Regional Deployment Lead to drive the end-to-end execution of a new Operating Model across 22 plants, coordinating 24 initiatives with travel to multiple sites. You will bridge strategic planning with hands-on rollout, ensure adoption, and lead governance and certification activities for the Tucker playbook.

The role emphasizes coaching plant CI leads, prioritizing critical waste-reduction efforts, and delivering measurable improvements while collaborating with plant

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, management, industrial engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of related experience.
• Formal CI credentials (Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt) or equivalent hands-on track record leading root cause problem-solving to closure.
• Demonstrated strategic CI capability; experience building or leading a waste-reduction/CI prioritization strategy from data.

Responsibilities

• Drive all 24 initiatives to completion across pod plants against the rollout timeline.
• Own the distinction between installed and working – validate that each initiative changes behavior and metrics on the floor.
• Escalate blockers to the Rise Recipe Program Lead and plant Ops VP to prevent timeline delays.
• Build the pod's waste-reduction and CI strategy; analyze data to determine opportunities with highest impact and sequence accordingly.
• Translate strategy into a committed, owned action plan with dates; drive it through to execution and closure.

Skills

Lean Six Sigma

Analytics

KPI tools

Coaching experience

Root-cause problem solving

Travel willingness

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/management/industrial engineering

Tools

Patch

SAP

LaunchPAD

Job description

Rise Baking Company seeks a Regional Deployment Lead to drive the end-to-end execution of a new Operating Model across 22 plants, coordinating 24 initiatives with travel to multiple sites. You will bridge strategic planning with hands-on rollout, ensure adoption, and lead governance and certification activities for the Tucker playbook.

The role emphasizes coaching plant CI leads, prioritizing critical waste-reduction efforts, and delivering measurable improvements while collaborating with plant