Operational Excellence Team Leader

Job description

Lead the annual Hoshin Kanri and Continuous Improvement planning process in collaboration with plant management, defining yearly targets and ensuring tracking through the management CI process; conduct operational investigations and manage OPEX projects to identify improvement opportunities, deliver value, and ensure alignment with plant goals and financial viability through internal OPEX audits. Deploy and sustain the OPEX system across the plant, including OPEX manuals, standards, and routines, ensuring all improvement methods and tools are known, applied, and respected by employees. Drive savings realized from improvement projects and ensure reflection in P&L, demonstrating measurable financial impact and value delivery. Develop and implement comprehensive training and coaching plans to build OPEX capability utilizing the Train-the-Trainer principle; lead Continuous Improvement workshops on the shop floor and in indirect areas, developing improvement roadmaps and defining plant OPEX capacity in accordance with OPEX guidelines. Identify, implement, and share local best practices across plant, country, and wider organizational levels to drive systemic improvement and organizational learning. Act as Project Management Office (PMO) for improvement projects within the plant perimeter and lead Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) activities in coordination with Central OPEX to address performance deviations. Build and sustain a culture of operational excellence by ensuring employee qualifications meet operational requirements and that continuous improvement methodologies are embedded throughout all organizational levels. Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or related field. 7+ years of experience in Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Production, or Manufacturing . Strong knowledge of Lean, Kaizen, CI, problem-solving, and performance management, VSM, KATA & Makigami Experience leading improvement projects, workshops, and cross-functional teams . Good English communication and presentation skills . Strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills. Plus / Preferred: Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt certification. Experience with Hoshin Kanri and OPEX systems. Experience in training/coaching and Train-the-Trainer . Experience with OPEX/Lean audits and PMO/project management . Experience in a multinational manufacturing environment . People of all genders are always meant equally; for linguistic simplification and better readability, only the masculine form is used in the text. LEONI processes your application data in an IT-system that is consistent across the company and uses Foreign Service providers. By sending your application, you agree to this procedure. LEONI ensures the compliance with data protection. LEONI Wiring Systems Egypt S.A.E. LEONI is a global provider of products, solutions and services for energy and data management in the automotive industry. The group of companies has around 86,000 employees in 21 countries and generated consolidated sales of EUR 3.9 billion in 2025. The value chain ranges from standardized cables and special and data cables to highly complex wiring systems and related components, from development to production. As an innovation partner with distinctive development and systems expertise, we support our customers on the path to increasingly sustainable and connected mobility concepts from autonomous driving to alternative drives as well as charging systems.