Senior Manager Operational Excellence

Elbit America
Fort Worth, TX
Job Description
Senior Manager Operational Excellence job summary: Elbit America is seeking a strategic, enterprise-focused Continuous Improvement (CI) leader to design, deploy, and sustain the company's GRIT Operating System. The ideal candidate has a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and experience leading complex CI initiatives.

Requirements

  • Lead the deployment, maturity, and sustainment of the GRIT operating system across all business units.
  • Partner with GRIT Champions to drive culture change and embed CI behaviors.
  • Establish and manage enterprise governance for CI, including standard work, audits, maturity assessments, and sustainment plans.
  • Align CI activities with company strategy, annual operating plans, and enterprise performance objectives.
  • Facilitate and coach on Lean tools, DMAIC, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, and other CI methodologies.
  • Develop internal CI training programs (Lean, Green Belt, problem-solving) and build the internal CI practitioner pipeline across divisions.
  • Mentor employees at all levels in structured problem solving, data-driven decision making, and operational excellence tools.
  • Identify, prioritize, and qualify CI opportunities aligned with business needs.
  • Lead and manage a cross-functional portfolio of CI projects delivering measurable improvements in cost, quality, delivery, safety, and employee engagement.
  • Track, validate, and report CI results and key performance indicators to leadership.
  • Conduct cost-benefit analyses, ROI modeling, statistical analysis, and data interpretation to guide decision making.
  • Present data, insights, and improvement recommendations to leadership, customers, partners, and suppliers.
  • Communicate CI progress, success stories, and best practices across the enterprise.
  • Lead CI meetings, report-outs, and engagement events aligned with GRIT deployment.
  • Coach leadership teams on Gemba leadership, daily management, and sustainment behaviors.

Benefits

  • 9/80 schedule (every other Friday off)
  • Competitive compensation
  • 401(k) program
  • Robust medical, dental, vision, & disability coverage
  • Basic Life Insurance
  • Additional Life & AD&D Insurances
  • Flexible Vacation & PTO
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Generous Employee Referral Program
  • Voluntary Benefits (Longer Term Care, Legal, Identity Theft, Pet Insurance, and more)
  • Voluntary Tricare Supplement available for military retirees
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