Operational Excellence Manager

Helix Operating Company LLC•Beachwood, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Operations Excellence Manager owns the systems that make the plant run better, flow faster, and operate safely, without carrying direct production-cell supervision. This is a build role as much as a leadership role: one part systems builder, one part improvement driver, one part reliability and safety steward. You will own four connected domains; continuous improvement, facilities maintenance and reliability, work-in-process flow, and environmental, health & safety, all pointed at a single number: on-time delivery. Continuous improvement removes the waste that erodes it, reliable equipment prevents the downtime that kills it, disciplined flow and clean system data make the schedule trustworthy, and a healthy safety posture protects the whole operation from disruption. Several of these functions, a preventative maintenance program in particular, do not yet exist in structured form, and you will stand them up from zero. You will direct your team as the execution arms of the function, with the authority to build out the team as it matures.

Requirements

5+ years in manufacturing operations, manufacturing/industrial engineering, or operational excellence, in a machining or discrete-manufacturing environment.
Demonstrated Lean/CI experience with real, measured results — VSM, kaizen, waste reduction, standard work.
Hands-on competence with equipment reliability and maintenance planning, able to build a PM/TPM program, not just oversee one.
Working knowledge of an ERP/MRP system; routings, work centers, capacity and scheduling logic; Epicor a bonus.
Practical familiarity with EHS compliance (OSHA, environmental) in an industrial setting.
Experience in an AS9100D or aerospace/defense quality environment, including FOD and ESD discipline.
Exposure to defense supply-chain requirements (e.g., CMMC) and customer flow-downs.

Nice To Haves

Six Sigma or formal Lean certification, MES/OEE tooling experience, or familiarity with linear-motion components (ball screws, acme/lead screws, actuators) or comparable precision machining.

Responsibilities

Continuous Improvement: Own the CI portfolio, prioritization, sequencing, and measured results, and direct your team as its execution arm. Begin by value stream mapping the highest-value jobs to find where OTD, quality, and cycle time are actually lost, then attack the waste with Lean methods.
Special Operational Projects: Help lead and support ad-hoc projects that improve operations across the organization, for example, making Epicor a trustworthy source of planning and scheduling dates. Build the foundation first: define every machine as a work center, correct routings and times, and grid the factory so a physical location maps to a work center. Then drive the floor discipline (job clocking, move reporting, scrap reporting) that makes the schedule real. Treat it as a behavior-change effort, not an IT project.
WIP Flow: Own the flow system, layout, WIP caps, routing logic, and the handoff of material once an operation completes, so that work keeps moving and Epicor's picture of where a job lives stays accurate.
Facilities Maintenance & Reliability: Stand up a preventative maintenance program where none exists today, asset register, PM intervals from OEM specs and run-hours, and a working schedule, on a TPM foundation that protects spindle, way-lube, coolant/filtration, chiller, and compressed-air systems. Scale the maintenance team as the workload justifies.
Shop-Floor Visibility: Develop Enet into a KPI-driven, digital view of the floor, built on clean data rather than ahead of it, with machine uptime and downtime among the metrics that anchor it and feed OEE.
Environmental, Health & Safety: Hold standing accountability for EHS, OSHA recordkeeping and compliance, hazard communication, environmental permits, and FOD/ESD discipline, and direct your team on execution without ever trading the compliance floor for project velocity.