Value Stream & Production Relocation Manager

ANA•Spartanburg, SC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Alliance North America (ANA) is a growing and scaling company seeking a Value Stream & Production Relocation Manager for an onsite position in Spartanburg, South Carolina. This role owns the performance of assigned product value streams and leads the planning and execution of production relocations across ANA. The objective is to ensure production, equipment, tooling, materials, processes, and people are successfully transitioned with minimal disruption to safety, quality, customer delivery, throughput, and revenue. The position collaborates cross-functionally with Production, Planning, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Facilities, Logistics, and Sales to establish predictable production flow and execute successful operational transitions. The role is fully onsite with a weekday work schedule from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This position reports to the Plant Manager with a dotted line to the EVP of Operations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
3 - 5 years of progressive experience in manufacturing, operations, engineering, supply chain, or a related field, with demonstrated success leading complex operational initiatives.
Proven experience leading manufacturing relocation, facility launch, consolidation, capacity expansion, or production transfer projects.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate projects involving manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, and other key stakeholders.
Strong understanding of production planning, material flow, capacity planning, manufacturing processes, and execution.
Strong project management, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to identify risks and drive timely solutions.
Proven ability to manage aggressive timelines, competing priorities, budgets, and project dependencies in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Excellent communication, leadership, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
Ability to travel between ANA locations and other project sites as required.
Lean/Six Sigma experience is required.
Must be based in the United States and authorized to work in the U.S. without employer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end performance of assigned value streams, driving safety, quality, delivery, cost, inventory, and productivity.
Manage production plans, capacity, constraints, and material availability.
Establish daily management, visual KPIs, and clear accountability.
Improve throughput, lead time, flow, and schedule attainment.
Develop and execute production relocation plans, schedules, milestones, and risk mitigation.
Coordinate equipment, tooling, inventory, processes, and production transfers.
Manage shutdown, move, installation, commissioning, validation, and restart activities.
Establish inventory buffers and transition plans to protect customer commitments.
Minimize production downtime and operational disruption.
Ensure equipment, utilities, materials, staffing, training, documentation, and quality requirements are ready before launch.
Develop production restart and ramp-up plans with measurable targets.
Track performance against plan and rapidly resolve constraints.
Stabilize relocated operations before transitioning them into normal production management.
Coordinate Production, Planning, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Facilities, Logistics, and Sales.
Maintain clear visibility of project status, risks, decisions, and actions.
Ensure issues have clear owners and completion dates.
Escalate risks early and drive timely decisions.
Use relocation as an opportunity to improve layouts, material flow, standard work, and productivity.
Apply Lean and structured problem-solving methods.
Develop supervisors, leads, and employees.
Ensure receiving teams are trained and capable of sustaining the new operation.
Perform other duties as assigned.