Key Responsibilities
CI Strategy & Lean Operating System
• Own the site continuous-improvement roadmap; align the improvement pipeline to business priorities through strategy deployment and annual/quarterly planning with the leadership team.
• Design, deploy, and sustain the lean operating system: tiered daily management, visual management, standard work, leader standard work, and gemba routines.
• Define and maintain the plant KPI framework (safety, quality, delivery, cost, throughput, on-time delivery, first-pass yield, cost of poor quality) and ensure metrics drive action at every tier.
Improvement Execution
• Plan, facilitate, and follow up on kaizen events, value-stream mapping, and rapid improvement workshops across the busbar value stream and supporting functions.
• Lead structured problem-solving (DMAIC, A3, 8D) on the site’s highest-impact losses; focus early effort on the binding constraints to flow.
• Drive HMLV-appropriate flow improvements: setup and changeover reduction (SMED), WIP and queue-time reduction, cell design, pull/replenishment, and scheduling discipline.
• Use Epicor labor, move, and job data to quantify active-vs-queue time, identify waste, and validate that improvements hold.
• Extend lean practices beyond production into quoting, order entry, planning, purchasing, and quality processes (transactional lean).
Financial Accountability
• Build business cases for improvement initiatives; track and report validated hard and soft savings in partnership with Finance.
• Partner with Engineering on capital, automation, and MES/analytics projects to ensure they solve the right problems and deliver expected returns.
People & Capability
• Build CI capability across the organization: deliver lean and problem-solving training.
• Coach supervisors and managers to lead improvement in their own areas; foster an engaged culture where operators identify and solve problems.
Quality, Safety & Compliance
• Integrate CI with AS9100 and NADCAP requirements; ensure process changes are properly controlled, documented, and validated, and support audits and corrective actions.
• Lead 5S and workplace organization; partner with EHS to embed safety and ergonomics into improvement work.
Required Qualifications
• This facility is subject to ITAR regulations. Applicants must qualify as a “U.S. Person” under ITAR (22 CFR § 120.62), meaning a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or other qualifying protected individual. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Management, or a closely related discipline.
• 8+ years of manufacturing experience, including 3+ years leading continuous-improvement or operational-excellence programs, ideally in a metal-fabrication, machining, or electromechanical assembly environment.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (or equivalent demonstrated expertise) with a track record of measurable, sustained throughput, quality, and cost results.
• Deep working knowledge of lean tools and systems: value-stream mapping, standard work, SMED, 5S, visual and tiered management, kaizen, and structured problem-solving.
• Strong analytical skills; fluent in ERP-based manufacturing data and comfortable building the analyses that drive decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in a high-mix, low-volume or job-shop operation.
• Busbar, power-distribution, or copper/aluminum fabrication background; familiarity with plating and other special processes.
• AS9100 and/or NADCAP experience.
• Epicor (or comparable ERP) and MES implementation experience.
• Experience with strategy deployment (hoshin kanri) and building a CI function or lean operating system from the ground up.
Core Competencies
• Bias for action and floor presence — leads improvement where the work happens.
• Systems thinking: builds routines and structures that make gains stick.
• Data-driven decision-making…