Director, Lean & Enterprise Transformation
Overhead Door · Lewisville, TX
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Lean / CI
- Travel
- 50%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 10+ years
- Certification
- Black Belt preferred
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level continuous improvement role at Overhead Door (industrial) in Lewisville, TX. Develop a corporate Lean playbook defining standard tools, methods, and behaviors.
- They ask for
- 10+ years · degree required · Black Belt preferred
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Black Belt, Kaizen, EHS / safety
- Day to day
- about 50% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Continuous Improvement roles in Texas: typical posted base $92k–$135k.
Median of the low and high ends of 6 live postings that list pay, out of 28 continuous improvement openings in Texas, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Texas plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 27 other live lean / ci postings in Texas.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (10+ vs 5+)
Typical $92k–$135k, from 6 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Lean 96%
- ✓ Six Sigma 82%
- Root cause 57%
- ✓ Kaizen 50%
- Value stream mapping 46%
- Cost reduction 29%
✓ = 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 Overhead Door
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- 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?
- The posting says about 50% travel. Between which sites?
- The posting mentions a Black Belt. Does the company sponsor certification?
- 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: Overhead Door in Lewisville
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- Director, Manufacturing Engineering · Manufacturing · Director+
- Director, Operations National Accounts · Production · Director+
Full description from Overhead DoorAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
The Director of Lean & Enterprise Transformation leads the design, deployment, and sustainment of the OHD Lean Operating System across eight U.S. manufacturing plants. This role ensures operational excellence by embedding Lean thinking, leadership discipline, and customer value creation into every process. Responsible for measurable improvements in productivity, cost, safety, quality, and engagement, this leader will partner with Plant Managers and functional executives to drive enterprise transformation through system governance, capability development, and cultural adoption.
Lean System Leadership
- •Own the design, deployment, and sustainability of the OHD Lean Operating System.
- •Develop a corporate Lean playbook defining standard tools, methods, and behaviors.
- •Integrate Lean governance through Tier 1–4 management routines linking plant operations to enterprise strategy.
- •Ensure alignment of Lean systems with Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People, and Customer Value pillars.
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Performance & Financial Accountability
- •Deliver measurable business impact through Lean deployment, targeting 3–5% year-over-year cost improvement per site.
- •Partner with Operations Finance to validate productivity savings, cost-out initiatives, and ROI of improvement project
- •Drive measurable improvements in safety, quality, and delivery performance through structured problem solving.
Lean Maturity & Capability Development
- •Establish and govern the Lean maturity assessment and certification process (Bronze/Silver/Gold).
- •Conduct quarterly maturity assessments for each site and coach plant leadership on next-level development.
- •Facilitate training, Kaizen events, and structured problem-solving workshops to strengthen internal capability.
Governance & System Integration
- •Lead the enterprise Lean governance cadence including weekly reviews, monthly transformation updates, and quarterly executive reviews.
- •Partner with Plant Managers, Manufacturing Engineering, EHS, Quality, Materials, and PMO to integrate Lean into daily operations.
- •Ensure standardization, alignment, and accountability across all plant-level Lean deployments.
Leadership & Cultural Transformation
- •Serve as a visible change agent who models leadership discipline and daily Gemba engagement.
- •Coach plant and functional leaders to lead with process and data rather than opinion.
- •Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and respect for people across all sites.
Leadership Expectations
- •Operates as an enterprise transformation leader, influencing systems and data.
- •Embeds Lean leadership behaviors into executive and plant-level routines.
- •Demonstrates relentless pursuit of waste elimination, flow, and customer value creation.
- •Acts as the enterprise guardian of the OHD Lean Operating System, ensuring its adoption and sustainment.
- •Bachelor's degree in engineering, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or related fields.
- •Master’s degree or Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification preferred.
- •Minimum 10 years of progressive manufacturing experience, with at least 5 years in a Lean leadership role.
- •Proven success deploying Lean systems across multi-site manufacturing environments.
- •Deep knowledge of Lean principles, systems thinking, and operational excellence frameworks.
- •Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
- •Experience in building products or industrial manufacturing preferred.
- •Willingness to travel up to 50% across U.S. sites.