Summer Intern - Operational Excellence Lean Specialist

About the role

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories. This year, Allegion also received Gallup’s With Distinction honor — a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.

Responsibilities

• Support the Indianapolis Exits Manufacturing Plant through the Lean transformation and daily management initiatives.
• Ensure Lean principles, practices, and tools are incorporated into the Allegion culture.
• Interact directly with all levels of plant operations and corporate leadership.
• Implement and support actions that improve safety, customer value proposition, quality, delivery, cycle, growth, margin expansion, and inventory.
• Implement tactical strategies to achieve the desired vision and execute long and short-term objectives to support the value stream’s goals.
• Drive Operational Excellence culture change through coaching of employees and leaders to drive Lean behaviors and follow the principles and practices of Allegion’s Operational Excellence Model.
• Support Lean initiatives as the Lean Specialist in collaboration with the value stream team through operational design, process improvements, and systems support utilizing value stream mapping techniques.
• Provide effective project updates to Value Stream Leadership on key metrics and sustainability.
• Participate in and actively direct Gemba Walks and educate others on continuous improvement including takt time attainment and Lean methodologies.
• Implement and maintain visual performance tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree desired in preferably a management, leadership, engineering, or supply chain course of study; relative experience could be considered.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience working in a position associated with lean concepts or Toyota Production System.
• Experience in Front Line Leadership in operations and/or materials.
• Experience with distribution, warehousing and/or logistics facilities a plus.
• Some level of understanding of PowerBI, WMS, MES, and ERP systems.

Skills

• Strong written & oral communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate with various audiences.
• Ability to positively influence and motivate teams to facilitate change.

Benefits

• Opportunity to be a part of a dedicated team that collaborates on real, hands‑on projects.
• Professional growth through exposure to Allegion's leaders, professional development and skill building opportunities, and mentor/mentee relationships.
• Meaningful time to network and get to know peers through Allegion sponsored activities hosted by the Talent Attraction Team.
• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through Clifton Strengths testing and coaching.
• Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career: rewarding opportunity to help others, room to make an impact, values “this is your business, run with it”.
• Investment in professional development as we grow.
• Culture that promotes work‑life balance with generous paid time off.
• Award‑winning company recognized with the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (second year in a row) for employee engagement, strengths‑based development, and unlocking human potential.