Senior Operational Excellence Manager - Danvers, MA
About The Position
The Senior Operational Excellence Manager is an onsite leadership role at Medtronic’s Danvers site, supporting its Cardiovascular and Neuroscience businesses. Reporting directly to the Site Leader and serving on the site’s senior leadership team, this role helps set strategic direction for operational excellence, manufacturing capability, and long-term site performance. The manager leads a team of engineers and technicians, partners with directors and senior managers, and mobilizes the broader organization to address complex manufacturing challenges. The role leads the evolution of the manufacturing system by eliminating systemic losses, improving flow and process capability, strengthening Lean/TPS disciplines, and developing sustainable problem-solving capability. It also helps define the investments, technology, talent, and operating systems needed to position Danvers as a Center of Excellence for extrusion and braiding. A central focus is developing leaders and fostering a culture in which continuous improvement is embedded in daily operations. The position develops and sustains process-improvement initiatives using Six Sigma, aligns continuous-improvement programs across the organization, and establishes governance, metrics, coaching, training, and other supports to ensure program success. The role is onsite five days per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of relevant experience in Business Operations, Plant Manufacturing, and/or Engineering, or an advanced degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience.
- Ability to set strategy, influence senior leaders, develop teams, engage with operational work, and translate vision into measurable business results.
Nice To Haves
- Strong background in holistic operational-excellence structures and associated tools and techniques, such as TPM, VSM, BPM, DBS, and TPS.
- Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
- Experience building strategic roadmaps.
- Ability to influence others.
- Experience in change management, coaching, and mentoring.
- Project-management skills, including time management, customer relationship management, conflict resolution, training facilitation, and administrative skills.
- Experience establishing Voice of Operations/Voice of Customer in the PDP process.
- Proven knowledge and experience integrating a Quality and continuous-improvement culture change.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and sustain process-improvement initiatives using Six Sigma methodologies.
- Define, design, and implement continuous-improvement programs integrated vertically and horizontally across the organization.
- Define improvement projects aligned with business strategies.
- Analyze improvement programs and potential results.
- Facilitate and coach improvement teams.
- Establish and maintain performance metrics to measure program success.
- Install process-excellence supports for program governance, project reviews, communications, training, certifications, and rewards.
- Lead a team of engineers and technicians and partner with directors, senior managers, and the broader organization to address manufacturing challenges.
- Lead improvements to the manufacturing system by eliminating systemic losses, improving flow and process capability, strengthening Lean/TPS disciplines, and building sustainable problem-solving capability.
- Help define investments, technology, talent, and operating systems to position Danvers as a Center of Excellence for extrusion and braiding.
- Develop leaders and build a culture of continuous improvement and problem solving.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Short-term incentive through the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Health Savings Account.
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account.
- Life insurance.
- Long-term disability leave.
- Dependent daycare spending account.
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement.
- Simple Steps global well-being program.
- Incentive plans.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution and match.
- Short-term disability.
- Paid time off.
- Paid holidays.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement, subject to IRS earning minimums.
- Capital Accumulation Plan, available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
