Senior Operations Leader — Manufacturing & Warehouse Excellence

Kelly Services; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners is recruiting a Senior Production Manager in Arlington, TX to lead manufacturing, production, and warehouse operations. The role emphasizes Lean Six Sigma, data-driven decision-making, and scalable systems to support rapid growth.

The candidate will oversee throughput, inventory accuracy, labor efficiency, quality, and capacity planning while collaborating with Engineering, Quality, Materials, and Supply Chain. On-site work four days weekly in Texas.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of manufacturing, production, or warehouse leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, 5S, Kanban, standard work, line balancing, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience with time studies, capacity planning, bottleneck analysis, labor modeling, and KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead production, configuration, and warehouse operations while meeting safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people-performance targets.
• Establish, track, and improve KPIs including efficiency, cycle time, First Pass Yield, Defects per Unit, On-Time In Full, inventory turns, and labor utilization.
• Conduct time studies, capacity analysis, and labor modeling to improve line balance, takt time, throughput, layouts, and material flow.
• Lead root-cause analysis using 5-Why, Fishbone, A3, DMAIC, and similar methodologies.
• Drive Lean initiatives involving 5S, Kanban, standardized work, waste reduction, inventory optimization, and continuous improvement.
• Develop production schedules, labor plans, and sequencing strategies based on customer demand and capacity.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Leadership

KPI tracking

ERP/MRP

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Operations

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

Advanced Excel

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners is recruiting a Senior Production Manager in Arlington, TX to lead manufacturing, production, and warehouse operations. The role emphasizes Lean Six Sigma, data-driven decision-making, and scalable systems to support rapid growth.

The candidate will oversee throughput, inventory accuracy, labor efficiency, quality, and capacity planning while collaborating with Engineering, Quality, Materials, and Supply Chain. On-site work four days weekly in Texas.