Value Stream ManagerJob Title: Value Stream Manager
Reporting To: Vice President, Operations
Location: Farmington, CT
Key Responsibilities
Value Stream Leadership
- Own the overall day-to-day performance of the assigned value stream, including safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and people.
- Translate operational goals into clear priorities and daily execution plans for the team.
- Establish performance expectations and hold employees accountable for delivering results.
- Monitor value stream performance and take corrective action when performance falls below expectations.
- Coordinate across Operations, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, Planning, and other functions to remove barriers and meet customer requirements.
People Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach, and develop employees within the assigned value stream.
- Build a culture of ownership, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure employees are appropriately trained and qualified to perform their roles.
- Develop employee capabilities through coaching, cross-training, skill development, and regular performance feedback.
- Address performance, attendance, conduct, and other people-related issues consistently and promptly.
- Build bench strength and develop future team leads and manufacturing leaders.
Operational Excellence
- Drive continuous improvement using Lean manufacturing principles and structured problem-solving.
- Improve manufacturing flow, capacity, productivity, labor utilization, and on-time delivery.
- Identify and eliminate waste, bottlenecks, rework, and other sources of operational inefficiency.
- Use visual management and operating metrics to understand performance and drive daily accountability.
- Lead root-cause problem solving and implementation of sustainable corrective actions.
- Support standard work, 5S, daily management, and other Lean operating practices.
Safety & Quality
- Maintain a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with established safety requirements and procedures.
- Reinforce safe work practices and proactively address unsafe conditions or behaviors.
- Partner with Quality to ensure products meet customer and internal quality requirements.
- Drive accountability for quality at the source and reduction of scrap, rework, and manufacturing defects.
- Ensure the value stream maintains appropriate process discipline and adherence to established procedures.
Customer Delivery & Business Performance
- Maintain focus on meeting customer commitments for quality and delivery.
- Work with Planning and Supply Chain to understand demand, priorities, material requirements, and capacity constraints.
- Balance staffing, equipment, and resources to meet production requirements.
- Identify risks to customer delivery and establish recovery plans when needed.
- Support new product introductions, production transfers, equipment changes, and other operational initiatives affecting the value stream.
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related field preferred.
- 7+ years of progressive manufacturing or operations experience, with demonstrated leadership responsibility.
- Experience leading employees in a production or manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated experience improving safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity.
- Experience applying Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles.
- Experience working within a cross-functional manufacturing organization.
Technical Knowledge / Skills
- Strong working knowledge of Lean manufacturing principles and tools.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, production planning, capacity, labor utilization, and material flow.
- Ability to interpret operational data and translate information into actions.
- Experience with structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis.
- Strong understanding of daily management systems, visual management, standard work, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
Total Rewards
The compensation range for this position is $88,200.00 - $132,200.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.
Benefits Package
Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefits-and-rewards/
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