Manufacturing Performance Excellence Leader

Manufacturing Performance Excellence Leader

In this role, you will play a hands-on, highly visible role in strengthening operational performance across multiple manufacturing sites in The Americas. You support and coach site leadership teams in deploying Corbion’s DRIVE operating system (Do it Right, Improve Value Every day), translating strategy into daily operational discipline on the shop floor. The role follows a clearly defined travel rhythm: you typically will spend one full week per one or two months at each of your supported manufacturing sites (including, but not limited to: Totowa, NJ, Blair, NE, Montgomery, AL and Querétaro-Mexico), amounting to approximately 70% travel, domestically and internationally.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and coach multiple manufacturing sites in the region in deploying and sustaining the DRIVE operating system, based on TRACC methodology.
• Help sites establish and mature the governance between Run & Improve, including daily management routines, effective shift handovers, production and site management meetings.
• Drive effective visual performance management by translating global PE standards into practical, site-specific applications.
• Act as a facilitator and coach for problem solving, helping sites identify when structured root-cause analysis or loss-and-waste analysis is required and coordinating the right resources.
• Build continuous improvement capability by coaching site management teams, local CI/PE managers and operators, and by delivering or supporting training and workshops where needed.
• Support sites in preparing and executing annual plans, improvement roadmaps and Cost-to-Value (C2V) initiatives.
• Promote operator-led improvement, ownership and engagement on the shop floor, removing barriers that prevent teams from improving their own performance.
• Balance short-term operational priorities with long-term capability building, ensuring improvements are sustainable over time.
• Act as a key connector between sites and central Performance Excellence teams, ensuring alignment on standards, best practices and learning.
• Travel frequently to sites and work closely with local leadership teams to support change, adoption and cultural transformation.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment, with exposure to complex production sites.
• Practical experience with Lean, TPM, Continuous Improvement or Performance Excellence concepts (e.g. Lean / Six Sigma; Green Belt level or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience supporting or leading change and culture transformation.
• Strong coaching and facilitation skills.