Sr Manager, Continuous Improvement

Winland Foods

9d•$113,000 - $170,000•Remote

About The Position

The Sr Manager, Continuous Improvement is a role that leads at the regional or enterprise level as a player-coach. The role sets expectations, strengthens scorecards and standards, coaches plant CI and operations leaders, and keeps the network focused on fewer, higher-impact opportunities that deliver measurable results. This role involves defining and evolving operational excellence standards, ensuring consistency in processes, coaching leaders, and driving cross-site learning. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to lead across multiple sites, influence senior leaders, and build capability while delivering measurable results. The position requires significant travel, with approximately 75% travel across the network, including site visits, leadership meetings, and remote work. The physical demands include regular standing, walking, and movement in plant environments, with occasional lifting and interaction with operators at the line level.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree preferred.
10+ years of operations, manufacturing, engineering or CI leadership experience.
Proven ability to lead across multiple sites and influence senior leaders.
Demonstrated experience building capability, standardizing systems and delivering measurable results.
Significant travel role with approximately 75% travel across the network.
Mix of site visits, leadership meetings and remote work.
Expected to spend time on the floor at multiple sites to ensure consistency and effectiveness.
Regular standing, walking and movement throughout the plant.
Ability to work in environments with noise, temperature changes and moving equipment.
Occasional lifting up to 50 lbs. and use of standard manufacturing safety equipment.
Frequent interaction with operators and equipment at line level.
Ability to engage both in conference settings and on active production floors.
Able to flex between strategic leadership discussions and hands-on observation of operations.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve Winland Operational Excellence standards, tools and role expectations across sites.
Ensure consistency in MOS non-negotiables, scorecards, reporting and follow-up while allowing practical site-level adaptability.
Coach plant leaders and site CI resources so plant leadership owns execution and results.
Lead regional or enterprise prioritization to focus on fewer, higher-impact initiatives tied to OEE, productivity, cost, quality and capacity.
Clarify the score by ensuring leaders can see MOS health, losses, savings, risks and performance gaps.
Strengthen governance, accountability and role clarity across CI and operations.
Drive cross-site learning, best practice sharing and scalable results.
Support accurate CSI forecasting, savings validation and gap recovery plans.
Ensure digital tools and data are consistent, accurate, usable and action-oriented.
Reduce low-value activity by ensuring travel, meetings and support requests have clear outcomes.