Operational Excellence Supervisor

Framatome North America•Richland, WA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

As the Operational Excellence Supervisor, you will play a pivotal role in enabling the Richland facility to meet the increasing demand for safe, reliable nuclear fuel. You will lead the frontline systems, processes, and team members that directly strengthen our manufacturing performance — ensuring stable production flow, improving equipment reliability, and building the operational capabilities needed to achieve the site’s strategic capacity targets. Your leadership will directly contribute to delivering clean energy to millions while enhancing the efficiency, resilience, and continuous improvement culture of our operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in related field
Minimum of 5 years related experience in either nuclear quality assurance or a related industry. Equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
Advanced knowledge related engineering and quality assurance standards, techniques and criteria.
Excellent communication skills with ability to work effectively with all levels of staff, management and customers as required.
Ability to develop and maintain good interpersonal relationships; work collaboratively within a team environment.
Advanced problem identification and problem resolution skills.
Demonstrated leadership ability to manage multiple tasks and projects through subordinates.
Good analytical ability and problem identification/problem resolution skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in high volume or continuous manufacturing environments, especially where throughput depends on equipment uptime, operator readiness, and stable flow.
Hands on experience with Lean / Operational Excellence tools, such as visual management, short interval management, Kaizen, A3 problem solving, root cause analysis, and daily management systems.
Experience supporting bottleneck operations, including understanding of cycle times, small stop reduction, OEE, and flow optimization.
Strong ability to analyze process flow and WIP, including real time monitoring, reaction rules, and flow stability concepts.
Experience improving equipment reliability in partnership with Maintenance, particularly in environments where unplanned downtime significantly impacts production capacity (e.g., press reliability / Tiger Teams).
Capability to coach frontline leaders and operators on problem detection, escalation routines, deviation response, and adherence to standardized work.
Experience implementing digital performance visualization tools, such as Power BI dashboards, data mapping, and real time production metrics displays on the shop floor.
Ability to lead cultural change, build operator engagement, and energize teams around improvement routines and performance ownership.
Project leadership experience, such as managing multi-disciplinary improvement efforts, reliability investigations, or staffing/training acceleration projects.

Responsibilities

Develops and maintains quality management systems so that the company delivers products and services in line with customer and regulatory requirements.
Optimizes workload and implements quality standards and establishes quality systems so that quality processes and procedures are in line with the company’s best practices.
Defines the required level of skills, proposes and implements development initiatives and plans so that the team reaches the required level of performance and skills to carry out its mission.

Benefits

Multiple medical plan options
dental & vision coverage
life insurance
long- and short-term disability
optional supplemental plans (critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, dependent life)
401(k) with employer match
Up to 3 weeks of vacation
8 sick days
13 paid holidays annually
Lifestyle spending account
employer paid mental health support
education reimbursement
professional development opportunities
adoption assistance
parental leave
employee assistance programs