Operations Excellence Lead

Regional Operations Excellence Lead

Reporting directly to the Executive Director, Supply Chain Operations, the Regional Operational Excellence Leader is responsible for working closely with regional plant leadership and cross-functional teams to diagnose and resolve issues impacting operational performance. Examples of these issues include rate, yield, crewing, and quality challenges which have a material impact on FPMP and / or Supply Chain performance. Please note that this role will be located at our Grand Prairie, TX site with travel (up to 50%) to the other NAM sites.

Responsibilities

• Performing "Deep Dive" analysis into operational issues to identify root causes alone and in partnership with plant resources including engineering and OpEx teams
• Helping facilitate and promote plant to plant OpEx best practices.
• Providing insights into senior leadership for operational improvement opportunities.
• Resolving operational challenges.
• Performing data analysis using SAP, Power BI, and various support programs to analyze key business metrics and identify opportunities to increase performance.
• Identifying opportunities and supporting plants in transforming the opportunities into executable action plans.
• Supporting performance improvement initiative pipeline growth and health.
• Participating in financial management calls, taking action and leading investigations as applicable.
• Reviewing monthly trends and understanding categories which are over / underperforming.
• Leading regional operational excellence and continuous improvement efforts and providing guidance and expertise on which approach and methodologies to use.
• Partnering with Supply Chain Operations leaders to ensure improvement efforts are completed in a timely manner.
• Directly leading and / or participating in kaizen events and other continuous improvement efforts.
• Teaching, demonstrating and coordinate lean implementation efforts and activities on the manufacturing / production floor such as Kanban, Material Conveyance, Production flow, Super Market design and deployment, Value Stream Mapping, Takt time analysis, Problem-Solving, Standardized work, Set-up reduction, 5S, Visual Workplace, and Error-Proofing, 5S, TPM, SMED / QCO, Visual Factory, Kaizen, Scheduling, etc.
• Assisting plant Lean teams in sustaining gains achieved in Lean efforts.
• Supporting management team in identifying and implementing best practices.

Qualifications

Why Work At Sealed Air?

It is our responsibility to leverage what we have to affect positive and meaningful change for our communities and planet using Sealed Air's global resources and expertise.

Corporate sustainability - it's about improving the lives of people around the world by addressing pressing needs in the communities where we and our customers operate.

Customer Success - meeting our customers' needs. At Sealed Air it's more than a goal, it's an integral part of our business practices, our innovative solutions, and our values.

Leaving our communities better than we found them through dedication of time, talent and resources.