Senior Lean Leader, Enterprise Operational Excellence

Avid Bioservices, Inc.; Tustin (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Avid Bioservices, Inc. in California seeks a Principal, Operational Excellence to design and implement scalable processes that improve execution, speed, quality, and performance across Manufacturing, MSAT, Quality, and related functions.

This senior role leads cross‑functional improvements with no direct people management, partnering with senior stakeholders to drive standard work, tier governance, and Lean‑based problem solving for sustainable transformation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, business, operations, or related field.
• Progressively responsible experience in Operational Excellence, Lean, manufacturing excellence, or transformation work.
• Experience implementing operating systems in regulated manufacturing or similarly complex environments.
• Deep knowledge of Lean management systems, tier governance, structured problem solving, value‑stream analysis, standard work, performance management, and change execution.
• Ability to influence senior, technical, frontline, and executive stakeholders without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and redesign urgent cross‑functional processes with unclear ownership, fragmented tracking, inconsistent handoffs, or delayed decisions.
• Lead process‑maturity initiatives from problem definition through future‑state design, implementation, adoption, and benefits realization.
• Replace person‑dependent practices with scalable workflows, named process owners, common tools, measurable performance, and clear escalation pathways.
• Advance Drive to 45 by improving coordination, visibility, handoffs, ownership, issue escalation, and execution discipline across batch review and release.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, MSAT, and other process owners to reduce waiting, rework, delays, and unclear accountability while preserving regulated decision authority.
• Design and strengthen Tier 1–Tier 4 routines, metric alignment, escalation pathways, leader routines, decision rights, and action closure.
• Continue developing AXS by integrating daily management, visual performance management, structured problem solving, standard work, leader standard work, and enterprise governance.
• Develop performance and governance frameworks that make outcomes, constraints, risks, dependencies, owners, and required decisions visible.
• Build practical Lean capability through hands‑on coaching while maintaining implementation accountability and transferring ownership to process owners.
• Establish sustainment plans with named owners, documented standard work, measures, review routines, and response plans when performance declines.
• Shape enterprise Operational Excellence standards, advise executive leaders on systemic operating‑model decisions, and lead the highest‑complexity transformation priorities.

Skills

Lean management

Structured problem solving

Value-stream analysis

Standard work

Performance management

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, business, operations

Job description

Avid Bioservices, Inc. in California seeks a Principal, Operational Excellence to design and implement scalable processes that improve execution, speed, quality, and performance across Manufacturing, MSAT, Quality, and related functions.

This senior role leads cross‑functional improvements with no direct people management, partnering with senior stakeholders to drive standard work, tier governance, and Lean‑based problem solving for sustainable transformation.