Senior Operations Transformation Manager

Why Work at Rehlko

Our work is guided by our purpose: creating an energy-resilient world for a better future. This purpose embodies the legacy we bring, with more than 100 years as the global leader in energy resilience, delivering solutions critical to sustain and improve life.

Our teams have the opportunity to provide a critical resource - energy - that ensures safety, security, and independence for people around the world. Our team members are focused on pushing boundaries, continuing to innovate in an ever-changing landscape, and keeping up with the pace required to create solutions for today's world demands.

Our product range includes engines, generators, power conversion, UPS systems, EV components and electrification solutions, microgrid controls and management, and clean energy solutions that serve a broad spectrum of OEM, residential, industrial, and commercial customers. At Rehlko, you have the freedom to identify, create, and deliver solutions - large and small - that help people and communities thrive in the moments that matter.

At Rehlko, our team members are the essential energy that powers our organization's success. We are committed to fostering a safe and sustainable work environment where safety is everyone's responsibility. We empower every team member to actively participate in our Zero Is Possible safety culture by encouraging open communication, proactively reporting hazards, following protocols, and suggesting improvements. Join us in creating an energy resilient world for a better future!

What We Offer

At Rehlko, our Total Rewards programs are designed to accelerate growth, energize performance, and support a culture of inclusion at every stage of life and work. We offer total rewards that are easily understood, recognize results, enable career mobility, and reflect our commitment to valuing diverse needs in a fast-moving world. We provide:

• Competitive compensation and benefits
  
• Work-life flexibility
  
• Recognition and rewards
  
• Development and career opportunities
  
• A safe and inclusive workplace
  

Why You Will Love this Job

Location: Hybrid/Glendale or Kenosha, WI

The Senior Operations Transformation Manager is responsible for transforming operational strategy into operational execution. This role bridges the gap between mid-to-long-term operational strategies and short to mid-term actions that enable sustainable profitable growth at the enterprise level.

This role is a key driver of global operational excellence leading improvements in cost, quality, delivery and safety. This role partners cross functionally with operational, business, product, and plant team members to define the technical needs and current state of Rehlko's operations system so as to define how to improve, refine, and grow our operational capabilities. This role will be on the forefront of Rehlko's enterprise level strategies leading initiatives that enable sustainable profitable growth.

Specific Responsibilities:

Facility expansion and deployment

• Leads current facility expansions through cross functional partnerships with Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial teams to drive capacity increases
  
• Partners with cross-functional leaders and team members (Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial) to translate product and market needs into requirements and capabilities for greenfield facilities
  
• Leads tactical development and deployment of new Greenfield facilities while maintaining timelines, budgets and mitigating risks
  
• Engages on M&A initiatives aligning operational needs and capabilities in new business entities aligned to current company capabilities and process alignment
  
• Uses data and analytics to recommend areas and options to increase and improve operational output
  

Capital and value stream optimization

• Drives existing plant footprint optimization to drive scale and efficiency collaboratively with plant team members
  
• Leads new capital development, deployment, and standardization to increase capacity, increase productivity, or improve quality
  
• Defines innovative world class technology, equipment, and tools that drive the company forward in terms of capabilities and capacity
  
• Leads rationalization reviews on internal capital utilization and utilization
  
• Engages at the plant level to facilitate productivity and efficiency efforts in current value streams
  
• Leads with a continuous improvement mindset driving value stream and capital optimization
  
• Build business cases for new manufacturing capabilities, including ROI modeli