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Role Description

The Director of Business Excellence is an enterprise leader accountable for designing, owning, and executing ASW’s operational excellence strategy to drive sustainable growth, margin expansion, and enterprise scalability. This role leads the Business Excellence function across ASW and serves as a strategic partner to platform leadership, plant leaders, and corporate functions to translate strategy into measurable operational and financial outcomes. The Director owns the operating system, improvement roadmap, KPI architecture, and transformation cadence that enable consistent performance across all manufacturing sites.

Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Enterprise Business Excellence Leadership
  • Own and lead the ASW Business Excellence function, setting vision, priorities, standards, and governance.
  • Define and deploy the enterprise operating system, including KPI architecture, review cadence, and escalation mechanisms.
  • Hold leaders accountable for performance outcomes through disciplined operating reviews and corrective action governance.
  • Translate enterprise strategy into operational priorities, initiatives, and measurable targets.
• Strategic Growth & Financial Performance
  • Own the operational components of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), ensuring alignment between strategy, capacity, capital, and execution.
  • Drive margin expansion initiatives, including productivity, labor optimization, footprint efficiency, and working capital improvement.
  • Identify and prioritize enterprise improvement initiatives that unlock growth, scalability, and profitability.
• Manufacturing Excellence & Standardization
  • Establish and enforce standardized manufacturing processes, workflows, and performance expectations across all sites.
  • Lead capacity, footprint, and throughput strategies to support growth while controlling cost.
  • Oversee enterprise KPI performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Cash, ensuring transparency and accountability.
• Continuous Improvement & Lean Transformation
  • Own the Lean and Continuous Improvement strategy, ensuring consistent deployment across all facilities.
  • Build CI capability within operations leadership through coaching, training, and structured problem-solving.
  • Drive waste elimination, variation reduction, and quality improvement using Lean/Six Sigma methodologies.
• ERP Ownership & Digital Enablement
  • Serve as the executive operational owner of ERP and manufacturing systems in partnership with IT.
  • Define operational requirements for ERP, MES, automation, and analytics to enable visibility, scheduling accuracy, and execution discipline.
  • Lead ERP optimization and adoption, ensuring systems drive behavior, accountability, and performance.
• M&A Integration & Operational Due Diligence
  • Lead operational due diligence for acquisitions, assessing manufacturing capability, scalability, and integration risk.
  • Own post-close operational integration, including process harmonization, KPI alignment, and ERP migration readiness.
  • Ensure rapid performance stabilization and value capture post-acquisition.
• Safety, Quality & Culture
  • Champion a strong safety and quality culture, partnering with EHS and Quality leaders to embed standards and accountability.
  • Ensure operational excellence is embedded in leadership behaviors, decision-making, and talent development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 10–15+ years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing or industrial operations.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-level operational excellence and transformation.
• Strong financial acumen with experience driving margin, productivity, and working capital results.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional, multi-site organizations through change.
• Deep experience with Lean, Continuous Improvement, and KPI-driven operating systems.
• ERP implementation and optimization experience in manufacturing environments.
• Experience supporting M&A operational diligence and integration strongly preferred.

Certifications (Preferred)

• Lean / Six Sigma certification (Black Belt or equivalent).
• Continuous Improvement or Operational Excellence certifications.

Travel Requirements

• Regular domestic travel to manufacturing sites.
• Periodic international travel.
• Valid driver’s license and passport required.

ADA Requirements

• Work Environment: This position is based in a remote, home-office setting. The role requires a dedicated workspace with reliable internet access and a quiet environment conducive to focused work. The candidate must be self-motivated and able to manage boundaries between work and personal life effectively.
• Physical Demands: Positions in this function typically require standing, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.
• Concentrated mental and/or visual attention. The work involves performing complex tasks to very close accuracy and quality specifications, or a high degree of hand and eye coordination for sustained periods.

Benefits

• We provide a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage.
• Employee 401(k).
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Much more.