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Operational Excellence Manager

Chart Industries, Inc. · New Iberia, LA · 1 mo ago
ManufacturingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Intro about Chart Industries, mission, etc. Could be "About the role" or maybe "About the company"? The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map content accordingly. We have sections: - "What Will You Do?" with subpoints: Strategic Leadership, Continuous Improvement & Lean Transformation, Operational Performance Management, Organizational Capability Building, Project & Change Management. That's responsibilities. - "Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…" maybe part of Requirements? Could be part of Requirements or Qualifications? It's about physical demands; could be under Requirements. - "Your Experience Should Be..." that's Requirements/Qualifications. - "Desirable skills, knowledge & behaviours" maybe Skills. - "Your Education Should Be…" Qualifications/Education. - "Our Benefits Package..." Benefits. - Pay and Schedule: Not mentioned. No pay or schedule specifics. So we should NOT include Pay or Schedule sections. - About the role: maybe we can include an introductory paragraph summarizing the role. The posting starts with location and company description. Could treat that as "About the role". Provide a brief paragraph about Chart Industries and the role. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like bullet points. We need to use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

    for prose. We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft:

    About the role

    Location: Work From Home, XX - Home Office, United States. Chart Industries designs and builds advanced cryogenic equipment, with a tagline “Cooler By Design®”. The company emphasizes teamwork, problem solving, and continuous improvement, recently strengthened by the addition of Howden. The Operational Excellence Manager develops and executes the operational excellence roadmap across assigned business units to drive sustainable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and customer satisfaction.

    But we need to preserve all substantive information; we cannot drop location? The instruction says do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

    or drop it. Location is minor metadata? Could be included in a short p. We'll include location in About the role paragraph. Now Responsibilities: Use

    Responsibilities

    then
    • each bullet. We need to capture all bullet points from "What Will You Do?" sections. Let's list them: Strategic Leadership: - Develop and execute the operational excellence strategy and roadmap aligned with business objectives and growth plans. - Partner with site and functional leaders to establish annual operational improvement priorities, targets, and performance metrics. - Drive a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and operational discipline across all levels of the organization. - Translate strategic objectives into actionable initiatives that deliver measurable operational and financial results. - Champion change management efforts to ensure successful adoption and sustainment of process improvements. Continuous Improvement & Lean Transformation: - Lead enterprise-wide Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, productivity, cost reduction, delivery performance, and customer experience. - Facilitate Kaizen events, value stream mapping activities, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving workshops. - Establish and maintain standardized improvement methodologies, tools, governance processes, and reporting mechanisms. - Identify and remove systemic barriers impacting operational performance. - Ensure sustainability of improvements through robust control plans, auditing processes, and performance reviews. Operational Performance Management: - Analyze operational performance data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks. - Develop dashboards, KPIs, and management operating systems that drive visibility, accountability, and decision-making. - Partner with site leadership to improve key performance indicators including: - Safety performance - Quality metrics - On-time delivery - Productivity - Inventory management - Cost performance - Customer satisfaction - Support capacity planning, process optimization, and resource utilization initiatives. Organizational Capability Building: - Provide coaching, mentoring, and training to leaders and employees on Lean, Six Sigma, problem-solving, and continuous improvement methodologies. - Develop internal operational excellence capabilities to create self-sustaining improvement cultures. - Build cross-functional engagement and ownership for continuous improvement activities. - Promote knowledge sharing and replication of best practices across facilities and functions. Project & Change Management: - Lead complex, cross-functional improvement projects from identification through implementation and sustainment. - Manage project portfolios, timelines, resources, risks, and benefits realization. - Ensure improvement initiatives are aligned with strategic priorities and deliver measurable ROI. - Collaborate with stakeholders to effectively manage organizational change and gain commitment to new processes. We need to keep sub-bullets under Partner with site leadership to improve KPIs: those are a list; we can nest ul inside li? The instruction says use
      • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It doesn't forbid nested lists. We'll do nested. Now Requirements/Qualifications: We have "Your Experience Should Be..." and "Your Education Should Be..." and "Desirable skills, knowledge & behaviours". Also "Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…" maybe part of Requirements. We could have a single Requirements section combining experience, education, physical work environment, desirable skills. Or separate Qualifications and Skills. The instruction allows sections like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We'll decide. We have: Experience Should Be... (7+ years progressive experience in manufacturing, operations, supply chain, or operational excellence environments; proven success leading Lean transformations; demonstrated ability to influence leaders and drive change across multiple functions and locations; experience managing large-scale improvement projects with measurable operational and financial results; strong knowledge of manufacturing systems, operational metrics, and continuous improvement methodologies.) Education Should Be... (Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a related field required; Master's degree preferred.) Desirable skills, knowledge & behaviours (Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt; Project Management Professional (PMP); Change Management Certification) Physical Work Environment Will Require… (Ability to move throughout office, warehouse, and production environments; Ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, and perform routine office tasks; Ability to occasionally lift up to 15 pounds; Exposure to manufacturing environments, including varying noise levels; Ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing and office environment while managing competing priorities; Ability to travel to sites as needed.) We could put Requirements section with experience and education, and Skills section with desirable skills and physical work environment? Or combine. Better: Requirements: experience + education. Skills: desirable skills + physical work environment. But physical work environment is not a skill; maybe it's under Requirements. However we can still put under Requirements. Let's create:

        Requirements

        Experience: 7 or more years of progressive experience in manufacturing, operations, supply chain, or operational excellence environments. Proven success leading Lean transformations and business process improvement initiatives. Demonstrated ability to influence leaders and drive change across multiple functions and locations. Experience managing large-scale improvement projects with measurable operational and financial results. Strong knowledge of manufacturing systems, operational metrics, and continuous improvement methodologies.

        Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a related field required. Master's degree preferred.

        Physical work environment: Ability to move throughout office, warehouse, and production environments; ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, and perform routine office tasks; ability to occasionally lift up to 15 pounds; exposure to manufacturing environments, including varying noise levels; ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing and office environment while managing competing priorities; ability to travel to sites as needed.

        But we need to use
        • for any list. The experience items could be a list. Better to use list. Let's do:

          Requirements

          • 7 or more years of progressive experience in manufacturing, operations, supply chain, or operational excellence environments.
          • Proven success leading Lean transformations and business process improvement initiatives.
          • Demonstrated ability to influence leaders and drive change across multiple functions and locations.
          • Experience managing large-scale improvement projects with measurable operational and financial results.
          • Strong knowledge of manufacturing systems, operational metrics, and continuous improvement methodologies.

          Qualifications

          • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a related field (required).
          • Master's degree preferred.

          Skills

          • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt (desirable).
          • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (desirable).
          • Change Management Certification (desirable).

          Benefits

          • Medical, dental and vision insurance
          • Employer contributions to an HSA account
          • Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
          • Company-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage
          • Basic life insurance with option to purchase supplemental individual, spouse and dependent child coverage
          • Up to two weeks of paid family leave
          • 401k retirement savings plan including a company match
          We should not include Pay or Schedule. Now About the role: we need to include location and company description. Let's craft a paragraph. We must not repeat job title. So we can start with location. We'll include:

          Location: Work From Home, XX - Home Office, United States. Chart Industries designs and builds some of the world’s most advanced cryogenic equipment—how the “Cooler By Design®” tagline was born. The company emphasizes teamwork, problem solving, and continuous improvement, recently strengthened by the addition of Howden. The Operational Excellence Manager develops and executes the operational excellence roadmap across assigned business units to drive sustainable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and customer satisfaction.

          That seems to capture substantive info. Check we haven't missed any substantive info: The intro also includes "Along with competitive compensation and meaningful work, Chart offers development programs designed to grow future leaders." That's substantive about compensation and development programs. Should we include? It mentions competitive compensation (but not specific). Since we cannot include Pay section unless specific, but we can mention in About the role that compensation is competitive (but that's vague). The instruction says never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The phrase "competitive compensation" is vague but still stated. However we are not making a Pay section; we can include it in About the role as prose. That's okay. Also "development programs designed to grow future leaders." That's substantive. Also "If you’re passionate about design engineering and think a career at Chart sounds pretty cool, let’s talk." That's fluff but maybe not needed. Could be omitted as it's not substantive? It's a call to action; but instruction says remove application instructions. This is more like a marketing line; could be considered boilerplate? Might be safe to keep? Probably better to keep only substantive info about role. The line "If you’re passionate about design engineering..." is not essential. Might be considered fluff; we can drop. Also "Launching rockets into space..." bullet list of impact examples. That's substantive

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