Director, Operations Excellence & Transformation

As a senior leader in the operations network, this person drives enterprise-wide improvement initiatives, enabling profitable growth and operational excellence across all manufacturing sites. The role blends process mastery with people development, ensuring Pella's operations achieve world-class standards in safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

Requirements

• Strategic Partner: Serve as a key advisor to operations leadership, representing the function on cross-functional teams and influencing corporate initiatives.
• Operational Excellence: Starting with being brilliant at the basics for Daily Management Systems, Root Cause Analysis, and Continuous Improvement.
• Lean Transformation: Champion Lean and Continuous Improvement, deploying best practices and hands-on support for high-impact projects.
• Cost Leadership: Drive productivity, manage program execution, and facilitate ideation for breakthrough savings.
• EHS & Compliance: Advance safety, security, and environmental compliance, partnering with HR and Legal to prepare sites for future challenges and drive toward world class results.
• Engineering & Asset Reliability: Oversee custom equipment design and build team, asset reliability function, and facilities maintenance team to ensure business continuity, cost effective equipment builds, and a great working environment for our team.
• Talent Development: Build and coach a high-performing, agile team; lead succession planning and talent programs.