VP, Operational Excellence
JBT Marel · Chicago, IL
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Lean / CI
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 3 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level continuous improvement role at JBT Marel (industrial) in Chicago, IL. Process Improvement: Develop and support continuous improvement strategies utilizing Lean, Six Sigma, and other.
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, 5S, Root cause, Machining, Casting
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How this role compares
Against 11 other live lean / ci postings in Illinois.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $113k–$165k, from 8 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 8+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Lean 100%
- ✓ Six Sigma 83%
- Kaizen 83%
- Black Belt 58%
- ✓ Root cause 58%
- ✓ 5S 50%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Casting, Capacity planning, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Lean / CI team at JBT Marel
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is CI run from the plant floor or from a corporate OpEx group?
- Which metrics does leadership actually watch: OEE, scrap, cost per unit?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
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Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
Full description from JBT MarelAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Enterprise Wide -Relentless Continuous Improvement (RCI)
· Daily Management: Implement/support daily management at all business sites ensuring visual boards standards are in
place for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost (SQDC) and Inventory driving actions, KPI improvement and prioritization for the
business and related work centers. Visual boards including run the business and pacing boards drive actions for
operations, supply base, resource deployment, and key proactive decisions supporting customer requirements.
· Pipeline: Encourage a pipeline of active RCI and productivity cost improvement projects to drive hard and soft savings
that improve systems and processes with the operating units inclusive of VAVE operational and product dress down
efforts.
· Process Improvement: Develop and support continuous improvement strategies utilizing Lean, Six Sigma, and other
methodologies. Identify areas for process improvement within the businesses / operating unit and develop actionable
project plans using problem-solving tools like A3’s, 5S, etc. to address root causes and implement improvements.
· Best Practices: Develop and share best practices across the businesses / operating unit to increase adoption rates across
the supply chain operations network. Create a checklist forum to review and implement best practices as they are proposed
and approved.
· 80/20 Tool Set & KPIs: Implement the 80/20 tools to focus on the high impact activities. Use /enhance key performance
indicators (KPIs) to monitor and drive operational excellence for overall businesses, operating units, and overall JBT
Marel using the JBT Marel Business System.
Manufacturing Transformations
· Site Consolidation & Expansion: In working with our operating units, develop and support execution plans and strategies for business site rooftop consolidation and or expansion to optimize the global footprint. Support the cross divisional focus for use of operations and migrate to lower cost operations for select products to support the overall footprint strategy. Navigate the key objective to implement an assembly, test, and ship model for food processing businesses as a type 3 operation.
· Product Transfers and Outsourcing: Establish business cases to transfer select products to other business sites and / or outsource manufacturing or assembly processes. Guide/Support the operating units in implementing these business cases to ensure minimal disruption driving overall cost, quality, and delivery efficiency in ever changing geopolitical environments with active tariffs.
· Site Center of Excellence (COE): Guide/support the profitable growth of targeted JBT Marel manufacturing and warehouse distribution facilities increasing business volume from multiple businesses/ operating unit targeting a 75% capacity utilization rate. Support COE’s for machining and fabrications for quick turn service components.
· Asset Management and Advanced manufacturing: Develop and implement asset management strategies to ensure optimal utilization and maintenance of equipment across the JBT Marel rooftop business footprint. This will also involve publishing JBT Marel equipment across the supply chain /operations network and dispositioning on the use of selected equipment and selling it for maximum value. Review and propose implementing or migrating to advanced manufacturing technologies and methodologies to enhance production efficiency, quality and begin the equipment standardization journey where applicable.
· Sales and Service Footprint: Drive key footprint changes based on a fact-pack of JBT Marel combined sales and service footprint to achieve yearly synergy targets inclusive of facility consolidation, better use of offices, selling of owned property, and reducing risk for facility leasing obligations and mitigating dilapidation challenges.
· Make Buy: Support Make Buy strategies with the sourcing teams to enable a core competency compliance model and business case justification. Drive outsourcing where there is less total cost value and invest in internal capability where there is strength and uniqueness driving customer satisfaction and competitive advantage. Utilize holistic assessments to these Make Buy decisions on a regional and global basis.
Strategic Planning as part of relentless continuous improvement (RCI) effort:
· Inventory Management Governance and Toolsets: Develop and implement governance policies for effective and standardized inventory management inclusive of inventory segmentation (nine Block), dashboards, E&O disposition focus, escalation processes and action plans. This governance will apply by business/operating unit/ division and holistically across JBT Marel with the target of improving turns, delivery, and service, and reducing working capital YOY. It is essential that this effort drives right-sizing inventory strategies, especially for service where an increased inventory improves service levels and provides immediate product availability to customers.
· Capacity Planning: Build and develop capacity planning tools to understand capacities and utilization across JBT Marel footprint. This will be a key tool for the manufacturing transformation team to build strategies and monitor progress.
· Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP): Organize and support standardized SIOP process to be deployed at each business or operating units to align internal and external supplier capacities, inventory, and production strategies to support the sales plans and market trends. Each SIOP session will have a standard cadence with a cross functional team to replan and update SIOP plans to ensure integrity and market relevancy inclusive of forecasting. This plan must be integrated into the procurement and planning teams to impact manufacturing and supply base schedules driving more pull than push for shorter lead-times.
· Master Data Management: Ensure accurate and consistent master data management across the supply chain inclusive o
