Director, Advanced Manufacturing & Lean

Company Profile

Lennox (NYSE: LII) Driven by 130 years of legacy, HVAC and refrigeration success, Lennox provides our residential and commercial customers with industry-leading climate-control solutions. At Lennox, we win as a team, aiming for excellence and delivering innovative, sustainable products and services. Our culture guides us and creates a workplace where all employees feel heard and welcomed. Lennox is a global community that values each team member’s contributions and offers a supportive environment for career development. Come, stay, and grow with us.

Job Description

• Act as the technical leader to define and implement multi-year strategic improvements across the entire LCH footprint.
• Act as the primary point of contact with other LII operations to exchange best practices and create process standards for the company .
• Drive continuous improvement across all categories of cost to create year-over-year improvement in operating margin.
• Facilitate the annual process that creates robust plant strategic plans, addressing the specific areas where each plant needs to achieve breakthrough transformation over the next 3 to 5 years 
• Utilize lean strategies and best practices to optimize manufacturing processes across both plants and ensure balanced improvement across safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Utilize customer feedback and various other data sources to implement quality improvements, error proofing, etc. that reduce product field failures.
• Develop an engineering road map that appropriately utilizes technological advancements in both products and processes to achieve the cost, quality, and efficiency objectives outlined above. 
• Develop and execute an automation strategy that addresses workforce and business needs while delivering an appropriate ROI 

Qualifications

General Requirements and Skills 

• Requires a BS degree in an appropriate technical field (engineering preferred) and 8 to 10 years of experience in engineering and/or operations leadership 
• Cost Improvement 
• Strategic Planning 
• Process Engineering 
• Engineering and Technology