Value Stream & Production Relocation Lead

ANA; Spartanburg (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

401k with company contribution

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

Voluntary Accident Insurance

Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Employee Appreciation Programs

Job summary

ANA in Spartanburg, SC is seeking aValue Stream & Production Relocation Manager to own end-to-end value stream performance and lead cross-functional planning for relocations. The role ensures safety, quality, and on-time delivery while coordinating with engineering, supply chain, and production teams.

Fully onsite with a Monday–Friday schedule, you will drive lean improvement, manage relocation risk, and establish visual KPIs to accelerate ramp-up and stabilisation of relocated operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business, or related field.
• 3-5 years of progressive experience in manufacturing, operations, engineering, supply chain, or related field with success leading complex operational initiatives.
• Proven experience leading manufacturing relocation, facility launch, consolidation, capacity expansion, or production transfer projects.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate projects involving manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and other key stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of production planning, material flow, capacity planning, manufacturing processes, and execution.
• Strong project management, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with ability to identify risks and drive timely solutions.
• Proven ability to manage aggressive timelines, competing priorities, budgets, and project dependencies in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Excellent communication, leadership, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to travel between ANA locations and other project sites as required.
• Lean/Six Sigma experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end performance of assigned value streams.
• Drive safety, quality, delivery, cost, inventory, and productivity performance.
• Manage production plans, capacity, constraints, and material availability.
• Establish daily management, visual KPIs, and clear accountability.
• Improve throughput, lead time, flow, and schedule attainment.
• Develop and execute production relocation plans, schedules, milestones, and risk mitigation.
• Coordinate equipment, tooling, inventory, processes, and production transfers.
• Manage shutdown, move, installation, commissioning, validation, and restart activities.
• Establish inventory buffers and transition plans to protect customer commitments.
• Minimize production downtime and operational disruption.
• Ensure equipment, utilities, materials, staffing, training, documentation, and quality requirements are ready before launch.
• Develop production restart and ramp-up plans with measurable targets.
• Track performance against plan and rapidly resolve constraints.
• Stabilize relocated operations before transitioning them into normal production management.
• Coordinate Production, Planning, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Facilities, Logistics, and Sales.
• Maintain clear visibility of project status, risks, decisions, and actions.
• Ensure issues have clear owners and completion dates.
• Escalate risks early and drive timely decisions.
• Use relocation to improve layouts, material flow, standard work, and productivity.
• Apply Lean and structured problem-solving methods.
• Develop supervisors, leads, and employees.
• Ensure receiving teams are trained and capable of sustaining the new operation.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Lean Six Sigma

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Manufacturing operations

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business, or related field

Job description

ANA in Spartanburg, SC is seeking aValue Stream & Production Relocation Manager to own end-to-end value stream performance and lead cross-functional planning for relocations. The role ensures safety, quality, and on-time delivery while coordinating with engineering, supply chain, and production teams.

Fully onsite with a Monday–Friday schedule, you will drive lean improvement, manage relocation risk, and establish visual KPIs to accelerate ramp-up and stabilisation of relocated operations.