Manager, Operational Excellence
Trivium Packaging
full-time
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Location: Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead CI initiatives aligned with corporate strategic goals (OEE, scrap reduction, labor optimization, etc.)\n
- Facilitate kaizen events, root cause analysis (RCA), 5S, SMED, TPM, and other lean tools to drive sustainable improvements.\n
- Identify waste and inefficiencies across production, maintenance, quality, and supply chain processes.\n
- Partner with operations, quality, engineering, and safety teams to improve process capability, reduce variability, and ensure compliance with food safety regulations.\n
- Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and report CI impact.\n
- Train and coach frontline employees, supervisors, and managers on CI tools, mindset, and methodologies.\n
- Champion a culture of safety, quality, and continuous learning across all levels of the organization.\n
- Support capital projects with ROI analysis and process improvements.\n
- Ensure standard work practices are developed, implemented, and sustained across all production areas.\n
- Stay current with industry best practices and technologies for process improvement.\n
- Provide training and coaching to plant personnel on lean tools and problem-solving techniques.\n
- Collaborate with Quality, Commercial, and Operations teams to proactively address customer concerns and drive resolution of complaints\n
- Support initiatives that improve first time quality, on-time delivery, and responsiveness to customer needs
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Continuous Improvement, Lean, or Operations within a manufacturing environment; food packaging or metal can industry preferred.
- Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certification strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams and implementing CI programs with measurable customer impact.
- Strong understanding of food safety standards, customer compliance requirements, and manufacturing quality systems.
- Excellent problem-solving, data analysis, and communication skills.
- Hands-on leadership style, comfortable on the plant floor and in front of customers.
- Ability to travel up to approximately 50%
- Experience in the metal packaging industry
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements and compliance.
- Technical experience and understanding of food and/or beverage can end seaming processes and regulatory requirements.
- Strong understanding of industrial food filling, cook, and retort processes.