Regional Operations Excellence Lead

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.

Job Summary:

Reporting directly to the Executive Director, Supply Chain Operations, the Regional Operational Excellence Leader is responsible for working closely with regional plant leadership and cross-functional teams to diagnose and resolve issues impacting operational performance. Examples of these issues include rate, yield, crewing, and quality challenges which have a material impact on FPMP and/or Supply Chain performance.

 

*Please note:

• This role can be based out of our Charlotte (NC), Lenoir (NC), Holyoke (MA), or Grand Prairie (TX) locations.
• Alternate titles for this role include: Regional Performance Improvement Leader, Regional Continuous Improvement Leader

Specifc day-to-day responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Performing “Deep Dive” analysis into operational issues to identify root causes alone and in partnership with plant resources including engineering and OpEx teams
• Helping facilitate and promote plant to plant OpEx best practices.
• Proving insights into senior leadership for operational improvement opportunities.
• Resolve operational challenges.
• Performing data analysis using SAP, Power BI, and various support programs to analyze key business metrics and identify opportunities to increase performance.
• Identifying opportunities and supporting plants in transforming the opportunities into executable action plans.
• Supporting performance improvement initiative pipeline growth and health.
• Participating in financial management calls, taking action and leading investigations as applicable.
• Reviewing monthly trends and understanding categories which are over/underperforming.
• Leading regional operational excellence and continuous improvement efforts and providing guidance and expertise on which approach and methodologies to use.
• Partnering with Supply Chain Operations leaders to ensure improvement efforts are completed in a timely manner.  
• Directly leading and/or participating in kaizen events and other continuous improvement efforts.
• Teaching, demonstrating and coordinate lean implementation efforts and activities on the manufacturing/production floor such as Kanban, Material Conveyance, Production flow, Super Market design and deployment, Value Stream Mapping, Takt time analysis, Problem-Solving, Standardized work, Set-up reduction, 5S, Visual Workplace, and Error-Proofing, 5S, TPM, SMED/QCO, Visual Factory, Kaizen, Scheduling, etc.
• Assisting plant Lean teams in sustaining gains achieved in Lean efforts.
• Supporting management team in identifying and implementing best practices.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

 

Education, Experience and Formal Training/Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• 5+ years of experience of directly relevant experience within a role focused on Operational Excellence and/or Continuous Improvement
• Prior experience in a similar role within Supply Chain or Manufacturing Operations
• Prior experience leading operational excellence and/or