# Lead Operator

About the Role Lead Operators guide flow and process within their assigned work center at Watlow’s manufacturing operation, coaching the work center team on continuous improvement and helping the team embrace change. This role partners closely with the Team Leader, Manufacturing Engineering, Continuous Improvement, and Supply Chain to keep production running safely, on schedule, and to specification. In this position, you will build product to design using work instructions and standards, coordinate daily production planning to meet takt and delivery requirements, and lead Gemba walks, standard work, and problem-solving activities — using the Watlow Business System and the WW Leader Behaviors to develop your team and drive results. What You’ll Do Build product to design using work instructions and standards, and create or audit standard work in your assigned area in alignment with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Continuous Improvement Initiate and update the daily production plan — including daily resource planning — to meet takt and Manufacturing Order (MO) delivery requirements with quality product Coach and mentor cell team members, sharing in the responsibility for their traini

- **Id**: 3969832
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/watlow-lead-operator-2>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Saint Louis, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T07:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T21:08:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2692
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Sensors & Transducers, Industrial Automation, Semiconductor Equipment, Electrical Equipment & Cables

## Company

- **Id**: 2534531
- **Name**: Watlow
- **Domain**: watlow.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/watlow-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Dayforce

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 44
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.227
- **Repost share**: 0.023
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T15:42:23Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T00:46:51Z

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