Director, Operational Excellence – Advanced Engineering

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🦀 Maryland, Missouri – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote

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Spartech LLC

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1001 - 5000 employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏗️ Construction

🎖️ Defense

Food & Beverage • Construction • Defense

Spartech LLC is a leading plastics manufacturer that specializes in packaging and custom sheet and rollstock solutions for various industries, including healthcare, food, aerospace, and more. With 15 U. S. manufacturing facilities, Spartech brings innovative and sustainable plastic solutions to life, with a focus on performance and manufacturability. Their offerings include a diverse range of products from medical-grade plastics to specialty packaging and engineered extruded products, distinguishing themselves as a one-stop-shop for plastic material specifications.

📋 Description

• Lead enterprise-wide manufacturing improvement and technical capability across Spartech • Develop and execute a multi-site Operational Excellence roadmap covering Lean deployment, continuous improvement, Kaizen, value stream mapping, and waste reduction • Institutionalize DMAIC, root-cause problem solving, error-proofing, standard work, visual factory management, tiered daily management, performance dashboards, escalation routines, and leader standard work • Identify, document, and migrate manufacturing best practices across sites • Establish common operational KPIs for safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, scrap, downtime, and OEE • Build Lean/Six Sigma capability through training, coaching, project governance, and benefits verification • Lead manufacturing automation, tooling, equipment upgrades, and technical standards • Provide functional leadership for process engineering, process monitoring, statistical process control, process capability, throughput, material utilization, and cycle-time reduction • Establish maintenance and reliability standards, including preventive/predictive maintenance, CMMS discipline, spare parts practices, and failure analysis • Deploy Total Productive Maintenance and systematic OEE loss elimination • Drive capital efficiency and improved asset utilization • Partner with plants on equipment specifications, capital justification, installation, commissioning, validation, and operational handoff • Support new product introductions, process transfers, troubleshooting, and scalable adoption of manufacturing technologies • Report to the COO and partner with plant management to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and equipment effectiveness

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or related technical discipline • 10+ years of progressive manufacturing, engineering, or operational excellence experience, including leadership in a multi-site environment • Demonstrated success delivering step-change results through Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, standardization, and advanced engineering solutions • Hands-on leadership experience in automation and tooling, maintenance and reliability, and process engineering • Experience with elevated process monitoring and statistical control • Ability to improve capital efficiency and asset utilization, including evaluation and delivery of investments that raise returns • Experience applying structured problem solving with deliberate error-proofing • Strong financial, analytical, communication, change management, and cross-functional leadership skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary, incentives, and benefit programs • Medical, Dental, and Vision • Flexible Spending Accounts • Company-paid Life and Long-term/Short-term disability programs • 401(k) with strong company match • 120 hours Paid Time Off (pro-rated based on hire date) • 11 paid holidays

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