Vice President, Operational Excellence
About The Position
As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, Trane Technologies is committed to putting the planet first. Sustainability is central to their business. The company is seeking individuals who see impactful possibilities in the world's challenges and want to contribute to making a better future. The VP of Operational Excellence will be a critical enabler of the company's growth, productivity, and sustainability goals as they transform their Global Integrated Supply Chain (GISC) into a more digital, reliable, resilient, and scalable operation. This role is essential for ensuring factories and distribution centers operate at world-class levels of flow, stability, quality, and efficiency. The ideal candidate is inspired to build world-class operational systems and drive measurable performance improvement.
Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive leadership in manufacturing, operational excellence, Lean, or industrial operations.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling Lean operating systems in global, multi-plant industrial environments with complex supply chains.
- Deep expertise in lean systems, value stream transformation, daily management, flow design, and problem solving.
- Proven leadership in complex, global, matrixed environments.
- Bachelor’s degree required; Engineering or technical field preferred.
- Ability to travel globally up to 25–30%.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with enabling automation, digital performance tools, and Industry 4.0 concepts within Lean systems strongly preferred.
- Advanced degree or Operational Excellence certification (e.g., Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Master) strongly valued.
Responsibilities
- Own and govern the enterprise Business Operating System (BOS) architecture, standards, tools, leader routines, and performance management rhythm.
- Define and deploy common processes, visual management, daily management systems, and performance rhythms.
- Maintain governance and clarity on roles, expectations, and leadership behaviors across SBUs, plants, and functions.
- Ensure operational excellence principles are embedded in cross-functional processes, including new product development and supplier collaboration.
- Drive alignment across the global Operational Excellence network to ensure consistency, shared learning, and accelerated scaling of best practices.
- Establish a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
- Build a global, high performing enterprise Operational Excellence organization, with a credible brand and clear roles across regions, SBUs, and plants.
- Define and execute the enterprise Operational Excellence strategy aligned to COGS, growth, and efficiency objectives.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, problem-solving, and operational accountability.
- Strengthen leadership behaviors at all levels to drive reliability, discipline, and data-driven decision making.
- Establish global standards for value stream mapping, problem solving, waste elimination, flow, and standard work.
- Deliver year-over-year productivity gains through lean methods, automation, line balancing, and waste reduction.
- Partner with SBUs and plant leaders to improve OEE, labor productivity, flow, and bottleneck elimination and reduce waste, rework, and variability.
- Provide targeted Operational Excellence support for enterprise-level initiatives, capacity expansions, automation deployments, and footprint optimization.
- Provide enterprise visibility into productivity performance, root causes, and improvement plans.
- Lead enterprise initiatives to improve flow, takt alignment, standard work adherence, and cycle‑time stability.
- Drive consistency in production system execution across SBUs and plants.
- Strengthen stability and adherence to standard work to reduce variability and improve throughput.
- Partner with the Supply Chain Digitization team to deploy real-time performance dashboards, digital work instructions, computer vision–enabled process control, and IoT-based loss analysis.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering to align automation with standard work and flow design.
- Ensure the BOS integrates seamlessly with automation technologies and digital tools.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Holistic wellness programs with generous incentives
- Fertility coverage
- Adoption/surrogacy assistance
- 401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution (up to 8% company contribution)
- 15 vacation days
- 9 paid holidays
- 3 floating holidays
- Sick leave
- Options to support volunteer and parental leave
- Educational and training opportunities through company programs
- Tuition assistance
- Student debt support
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
