Senior Operations Transformation Program Manager

Kohler (Rehlko); Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Work-life flexibility

Recognition and rewards

Career development

Inclusive workplace

Job summary

Rehlko in Milwaukee, Wisconsin seeks a Senior Operations Transformation Program Manager to drive enterprise-wide initiatives for footprint, product and process alignment, resiliency, and capacity expansion.

You will partner across functions to ensure safety, compliance, efficiency, and continuous improvement, while balancing insourcing, outsourcing, and strategic transfers across global facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance.

Responsibilities

• Footprint / Expansion /Consolidation Projects: lead global manufacturing footprint optimization and capacity expansions.
• Process and Equipment Projects: deploy best practices and participate in capital planning.
• Insource / Outsource / Product Transfers: lead manufacturing network initiatives and cost optimization.
• M&A and Integration: act as operational representative for due diligence and integration planning.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance

Job description

Why Work at Rehlko

Our work is guided by our purpose: creating an energy-resilient world for a better future. This purpose embodies the legacy we bring, with more than 100 years as the global leader in energy resilience, delivering solutions critical to sustain and improve life.

Our teams have the opportunity to provide a critical resource - energy - that ensures safety, security, and independence for people around the world. Our team members are focused on pushing boundaries, continuing to innovate in an ever-changing landscape, and keeping up with the pace required to create solutions for today's world demands.

Our product range includes engines, generators, power conversion, UPS systems, EV components and electrification solutions, microgrid controls and management, and clean energy solutions that serve a broad spectrum of OEM, residential, industrial, and commercial customers. At Rehlko, you have the freedom to identify, create, and deliver solutions - large and small - that help people and communities thrive in the moments that matter.

At Rehlko, our team members are the essential energy that powers our organization's success. We are committed to fostering a safe and sustainable work environment where safety is everyone's responsibility. We empower every team member to actively participate in our Zero Is Possible safety culture by encouraging open communication, proactively reporting hazards, following protocols, and suggesting improvements. Join us in creating an energy resilient world for a better future!

What We Offer

At Rehlko, our Total Rewards programmes are designed to accelerate growth, energize performance, and support a culture of inclusion at every stage of life and work. We offer total rewards that are easily understood, recognize results, enable career mobility, and reflect our commitment to valuing diverse needs in a fast-moving world. We provide:

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Work-life flexibility
• Recognition and rewards
• Development and career opportunities
• A safe and inclusive workplace

Why You Will Love this Job

The Senior Operations Transformation Program Manager is an operational leader on the forefront of driving Rehlko Operations capabilities and capacity into the future. This role is responsible for leading enterprise-wide initiatives aligned to Rehlko's operational strategies for foot printing, product and process alignment, resiliency, capacity expansion, process rationalization, insourcing and outsourcing initiatives just to name a few. This role will partner across the enterprise engaging various functions in order to execute the role -- ensuring safety, compliance, and efficiency, and driving continuous improvement which aligns with Rehlko's organizational goals.

Specific Responsibilities:

Footprint / Expansion /Consolidation Projects

• Lead global manufacturing footprint optimization projects, including greenfield facility deployments, capacity expansions, consolidations, closures, and network level-loading studies to improve operational efficiency, capacity utilization, and long-term business growth.
• Execute global load balancing projects aligning products, components, processes and across multiple facilities
• Partner with various businesses in establishing required physical facility presence within markets to drive customer support and sales capabilities

Process and Equipment Projects

• Partner with continuous improvement team(s) in deploying best practices across the enterprise
• Participate in annual capital planning process to assure alignment with long term strategic initiatives
• Lead the evaluation, recommendation, and deployment of new manufacturing processes and capital investments across one or more facilities to enhance core process capabilities, operational efficiency, and business growth.

Insource / Outsource / Product Transfers

• Lead strategic manufacturing network initiatives, including insourcing, outsourcing, and realignment of products, components, sub-components, and value streams across global facilities to optimize cost, capacity, operational efficiency, and business performance.
• Create, deploy and utilize a standard product transfer/insource/outsource playbook containing a subset of defined processes
• Partner with finance in executing cost analysis for make versus buy and transfer projects so as to understand total cost of ownership and supply chain for contract negotiations.

M&A and Integration

• Act as an operational representative for cases of due diligence
• Interface between internal stakeholders such as legal, finance, and HR and external companies
• Define current state business systems, metrics, and general way of doing business
• Create integration plans that align future entities to Rehlko's processes, R&R, systems, mythologies and corporate identity
• Lead separation efforts in cases of Rehlko' entity or location carve-out
• Partner with Finance on creating financial analysis for M&A

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Finance, F