Sr Manager, Continuous Improvement

Roles And Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Winland Operational Excellence standards, tools and role expectations across sites.
• Ensure consistency in MOS non-negotiables, scorecards, reporting and follow-up while allowing practical site-level adaptability.
• Coach plant leaders and site CI resources so plant leadership owns execution and results.
• Lead regional or enterprise prioritization to focus on fewer, higher-impact initiatives tied to OEE, productivity, cost, quality and capacity.
• Clarify the score by ensuring leaders can see MOS health, losses, savings, risks and performance gaps.
• Strengthen governance, accountability and role clarity across CI and operations.
• Drive cross-site learning, best practice sharing and scalable results.
• Support accurate CSI forecasting, savings validation and gap recovery plans.
• Ensure digital tools and data are consistent, accurate, usable and action-oriented.
• Reduce low-value activity by ensuring travel, meetings and support requests have clear outcomes.

  Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of operations, manufacturing, engineering or CI leadership experience.
  • Proven ability to lead across multiple sites and influence senior leaders.
  • Demonstrated experience building capability, standardizing systems and delivering measurable results.

  Travel Requirements

  Significant travel role with approximately 75% travel across the network. Mix of site visits, leadership meetings and remote work. Expected to spend time on the floor at multiple sites to ensure consistency and effectiveness.

  Physical Demands and Work Environment

  • Regular standing, walking and movement throughout the plant.
  • Ability to work in environments with noise, temperature changes and moving equipment.
  • Occasional lifting up to 50 lbs. and use of standard manufacturing safety equipment.
  • Frequent interaction with operators and equipment at line level.
  • Able to flex between strategic leadership discussions and hands-on observation of operations.

  Benefits:

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401(k) with match
  • STD/LTD/AD&D/Life
  • HSA
  • FSA
  • EAP
  • Hospital indemnity
  • Accident Insurance
  • Identity and Fraud Protection Plan
  • Legal
  • Critical Illness

  Schedule

  Remote with Travel up to 75%

  Work Location

  Works from Home

  Pay

  $113k to $170k Annually with additional bonus potential

  Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401(k) with match
  • STD/LTD/AD&D/Life
  • HSA
  • FSA
  • EAP
  • Hospital indemnity
  • Accident Insurance
  • Identity and Fraud Protection Plan
  • Legal
  • Critical Illness

  EEO Statement

  Winland Foods seeks to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool, and as a global company we believe our success is enhanced by fostering equity and inclusion in the workplace. Therefore, Winland Foods is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.