Regional Operational Excellence Manager

Phillips Medisize, a Molex Company, is seeking a Regional Operational Excellence Manager to be responsible for leading and managing the global deployment of the Operational Excellence Strategy including the effective implementation of operational excellence principles, systems and tools. In this role, you will help lead the development of a culture of continuous improvement that relentlessly identifies and drives out process wastes, partnering with the Regional Operations Managers and their sites.

This is an onsite position with requirement to be onsite 100% at our WI manufacturing sites to ensure close collaboration with on-site teams and timely support of operational activities. Potential travel outside of WI on an as needed basis.

At Phillips Medisize, our goal is to create value for others. We empower every team member to hear, feel and see the quality in every action we take. By incorporating quality into the design of products and processes and predicting potential quality problems before manufacturing and delivering the product, we can create mutual benefit. The leading task of quality control involves enforcing the use of specified processes and materials, ensuring the qualification of operators and equipment, and making a series of planned measurements to determine if quality standards are being met.

• Lead the deployment of the operational excellence strategy with a bias toward action, driving SQDC operating system performance/results and CIP cost savings
• Lead mentor Operational Excellence Leaders to accomplish key objectives, site operating plans, and SQDC metrics/expectations
• Work with sites to continue the maturation of tiered daily management, enabling long term operational success
• Maximize operational performance by proactively identifying areas for improvement, leading lean initiatives and projects, utilizing lean tools and techniques, analyzing and reporting key metrics, communicating continuous improvement activities and training team members to accomplish the same
• Lead and mentor the evaluation of operational metrics and trends, PDCA thinking, scientific thinking, root cause analysis, and standard work at all levels of the organization to accomplish SQDC metrics/expectations

• Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline or 4+ years' experience in the practical application of operational excellence principles, systems and tools
• Demonstrated experience influencing and effecting cultural change
• Demonstrated experience leading and executing cost savings initiatives including the development of improvement pipelines and achieving cost savings goals

• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate teams to achieve performance metrics and business objectives
• Performance mindset with a passion to improve people, process, and tools/methodologies
• Demonstrate excellent training and presentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple large-scale projects and/or kaizens at the same time
• Ability to develop and meet project schedules, along with contingency plans

This position is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

In order to comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, this position requires applicants to either provide proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status or be eligible to receive an export authorization (a license) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations.