Operational Excellence Sr Specialist USA
Nemak · Sheboygan, WI
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Lean / CI
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 4+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- 22 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior continuous improvement role at Nemak (automotive) in Sheboygan, WI. Identify the impacted audiences and the level of change they will undergo to generate communication, training and/or ad hoc accompaniment actions for each one.
- They ask for
- 4+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Continuous Improvement roles in Wisconsin: typical posted base $98k–$136k.
Median of the low and high ends of 7 live postings that list pay, out of 19 continuous improvement openings in Wisconsin, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Wisconsin plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 18 other live lean / ci postings in Wisconsin.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (4+ vs 7+)
Typical $98k–$136k, from 7 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 7+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Lean 95%
- Kaizen 58%
- Six Sigma 53%
- Value stream mapping 47%
- Root cause 47%
- 5S 42%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention 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 Nemak
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?
- 4
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.
- 5
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.
This plant: Nemak in Sheboygan
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Full description from NemakAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Design together with plant members, a shop floor management diagnosis
- ◆Deploy workshops to co-design each of the 5 shop floor management elements with the plant management team
- ◆Implement solutions for each of the 5 shop floor management elements
- ◆Responsible for the timely execution of projects related to the improvement of shop floor management. Deliver to the Lean & shop floor management manager and operations manager, the general status of the projects related to shop floor management , reporting gaps or important incidents.
- ◆Ensure the execution of the design process and installation projects in accordance with current methodologies and design principles established by the shop floor management model
- ◆Execute projects and initiatives, meeting objectives on time and on budget by increasing adoption and use of team members focused on the people side of change, including changes to processes, systems, and technology, job functions and organizational structures through change management tools like ADKAR.
- ◆Identify the gaps between current state vs future state to define the impact and assess the risks of change in the organization.
- ◆Plan mitigation measures that favor the adoption of change and increase its speed.
- ◆Provoke the necessary synergies between different areas that allows the reduction of friction during the transformation process.
- ◆Identify the impacted audiences and the level of change they will undergo to generate communication, training and/or ad hoc accompaniment actions for each one.
- ◆Define the general change strategy that facilitates adoption, managing the obstacles that arise.
Establish the actions that generate buying for the project (events, informative sessions, go live, etc.)
- ◆Generate the 5 change management plans during the AXIS projects, supported by the ADKAR diagnosis. (communication plan, Sponsor roadmap, training plan, coaching plan and resistance plan)
- ◆Other Operational Excellence improvement projects; providing support for Business Unit Projects
Position
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology or related field
- ✓4+ years’ related experience in Lean Manufacturing and Transformation
- ✓Must have strong written and verbal communication skills (English required)
- ✓Change Management Practitioner
- ✓Experience in Manufacturing and Operations
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Objective
Lead the implementation of our shop floor management model, ensuring adoption through the technical and human side of the change. Co-design and co-implement the shop floor management model in each of the Nemak America Plants. This must be done in collaboration with the consulting team, as well as with the management team of the aforementioned plants.
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