Senior Operations Consultant

Streamliners Management Consulting, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Streamliners Management Consulting, LLC is seeking a results-driven consultant to lead transformation projects across North America and Europe. You will work on-site with clients, owning workstreams and delivering improvements from shop floor to process flows.

You will also serve as a project manager for turnarounds and expansions. The role emphasizes hands-on problem solving, data-driven decision making, and the ability to drive change in complex manufacturing environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (STEM) required or equivalent.
• Master’s degree preferred for advanced roles.
• Strong leadership and management experience encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Lead project workstreams, transformations, and turnarounds.
• Problem-solve manufacturing issues using structured methodologies.
• Use data to prioritize improvement opportunities and drive change.
• Adopt a process-oriented approach to solve large problems in smaller modules.
• Deliver high-quality client work and ensure successful implementations.

Skills

Problem solving

Change management

Autonomy

Communication

Collaboration

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Lean Six Sigma

Kaizen

JIT

Kanban

SMED

5S

Poka Yoke

VSM

Job description

Streamliners is a management consulting firm specialized in rapid efficiency improvements, operational excellence, and fast turnaround. We help manufacturers and private equity owned portfolio companies in North America and Europe solve complex operational challenges to maximize profit margins and gain competitive advantage. At our core, we are doers. We work closely with clients in various industries to execute the steps required to achieve performance improvements.

Who You Are:

A experianced and self-directed problem solver. A change management champion. You not only work well with others, but also can operate autonomously with little direction. You go the extra mile, and your entrepreneurial drive and intellectual curiosity have helped you garner a track-record of achievement.

You should feel second nature conducting & leading the following analysis:

• Process Capacity & Utilization Modeling
• Bottleneck Analysis
• Warehouse Restructuring
• KPI Creation
• Workforce Analysis

The Role:

You will work alongside other consultants and clients, typically on site, to deliver transformation objectives. You will have ownership of workstreams and be responsible for executing effective improvement plans within operations, ranging from shop floor improvements to fundamental changes in work processes and information and material flows. You’ll also serve clients in a project manager capacity for turnarounds, transformations, and expansions.

Duties / Responsibilities:

• Serve as project leader for project workstreams, transformations, and turnarounds
• Problem-solve technical manufacturing issues using structured methodologies
• Use facts and data to prioritize improvement opportunities
• You will adopt a process-oriented approach to solving problems and will break a large complex problem into a series of smaller, more manageable modules.
• Drive change and improvements to the overall execution of client operations
• Transform manufacturing processes for better productivity and efficiency
• Conduct due diligence, benchmarking, best practice, and other assessment studies
• Recommend actions and help clients implement them
• Manage and deliver the highest quality client work

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in a high-performance manufacturing environment
• or - 2+ years of experience in consulting
• or - 3+ years leadership and management experience
• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics),
• Strong functional knowledge in one or more of the following: discrete manufacturing, project management, process automation, continuous improvement
• Enjoys to work collaboratively with those across all levels in an organization
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Willingness to travel +80%

Preferred:

• Background in Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt is a plus) and methodologies including but not limited to Kaizen methods, JIT, Kanban, SMED, 5S, Poka Yoke, Visual Workplace, and VSM
• Experience in management consulting, large-scale change management, or turnaround and restructurings
• Direct operating experience with P&L accountability