Value Stream Manager

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Value Stream Manager

Job 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.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

Total Rewards

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/

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

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