Associate Director, Operations Excellence Manufacturing

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Your role at Clorox:

Are you an influencer, teacher, and coach ready to join a high performing team driving manufacturing and supply chain excellence? Do you enjoy working with the end-to-end supply chain to deliver results that are not believed to be possible? As part of the Supply Chain Services and Transformation Team, you will be instrumental in coaching our leaders to deliver excellence in results and best practices. We believe in hiring top performers with a diverse range of backgrounds; all qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.

The Operations Excellence Coach Group Manager for Process Excellence provides the coaching and training required to guide a team of highly skilled Operations Excellence Coaches through the establishment and implementation of Lean principles at manufacturing sites and within the leaders of Manufacturing.

This role is responsible for assessing and developing capabilities required to create sustainable improvement and set the desired pace of operations excellence execution. The role will also work with the Manufacturing Operations functions to ensure consistency and standardization of company-wide best practices and tools including equipment reliability and maintenance, user-driven maintenance, machine centerlining, and 5S.

The work is focused on leading and facilitating key improvement work with plant leadership and includes coaching leaders across the supply chain.

In this role, you will:

• Direct a team of Operations Excellence manufacturing coaches across multiple business units globally

• Accountable for successful implementation of best practices and standard work, leading to desired performance outcomes across multiple manufacturing sites with a strong emphasis on equipment maintenance and reliability

• Mentor Manufacturing leadership on Operations Excellence implementation including Leading & Managing Change, Value Chain Alignment, Human Capital, Asset Care, User-Driven Maintenance, and 5S utilizing the TRACC framework.

• Coach Manufacturing leadership on integration of supply chain excellence tools including creating and maintaining the best practice governance process

• Coach Manufacturing leadership on the sequencing of best practices using the TRACC Roadmap

• Identify and diagnose any site-level barriers (capabilities, behaviors, resources) to successful implementation of best practices and expected performance, and partner with site leadership to develop corrective plans; influencing, coaching, teaching, and routines

• Conduct process health checks, gemba, and learn from previous ways of working to enable pace of implementation and new change management routines

• Facilitate training and improvement activities with leadership and operations resources

• Connect business, division, and local imperatives to the Operations Excellence work within manufacturing

• Provide strong communication to the Operations Excellence team as well as analyze and review results

• Stay connected and updated on current local and market trends in order to support better positioning through Operations Excellence

• Participate in leadership pilot (learning/modeling) activities at key sites

What we look for:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or engineering preferred, but equivalent experience will also be considered

• 7-10 years in Manufacturing with experience as a Plant Manager, Assistant Plant Manager, or equivalent.  Additional experience in leading engineering and maintenance activities also preferred.

• Experience Leading an organization in a TPM or Lean Environment

• Experience in coaching TPM or Lean methodologies with an emphasis on maintenance, reliability, TPM, asset care, user-driven maintenance, and 5S

• Experience implementing TRACC continuous improvement methodology

• Experience with all aspects of equipment maintenance desired, including preventive, predictive, and precision maintenance; driving im