Site Lean Leader

Beehive Industries is dedicated to Powering American Defense by revolutionizing the design, development, and delivery of jet propulsion systems to support the warfighter. Through the integration of additive manufacturing, the company aims to meet the growing and urgent needs for unmanned aerial defense by dramatically improving a jet engine’s speed to market, fuel efficiency, and cost.  

Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, with additional facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee, Loveland Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. Beehive is committed to grow and advance the defense industrial base while manufacturing exclusively in the USA. This role will be located at our Blue Ash, Ohio facility.

Beehive Industries is seeking a Site Lean Leader to lead the deployment of the Beehive Production System and site-level Operations Excellence roadmap at one of our manufacturing sites. This role will be responsible for building lean capability, leading industrial engineering resources, coaching site leaders and teams, driving kaizen execution, improving daily management, and helping the site improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and flow.

The Site Lean Leader will provide day-to-day leadership for the site’s Industrial Engineers and ensure their work is aligned to the highest-priority operational needs, including capacity modeling, labor planning, production flow, takt attainment, cell layout, WIP visibility, manufacturing readiness, and process improvement. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can connect lean principles, industrial engineering, and practical shop-floor execution in a high-growth manufacturing environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Industrial Technology, Business, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in lean manufacturing, operations excellence, industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, continuous improvement, or production leadership
• Experience leading, mentoring, or providing technical direction to engineers, analysts, or improvement resources
• Demonstrated experience leading kaizen events and deploying lean tools in a manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of industrial engineering methods, including capacity modeling, labor planning, process analysis, time studies, layout development, line balancing, takt planning, and production flow
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles, including standard work, leader standard work, visual management, 5S, value stream mapping, kaizen, waste reduction, flow, pull systems, and structured problem solving
• Experience coaching leaders, supervisors, engineers, technicians, and operators in practical lean and problem-solving methods
• Experience building or improving daily management systems, tiered meetings, visual boards, action tracking, and escalation routines
• Strong facilitation and change management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams without relying solely on positional authority
• Strong communication skills with the ability to connect strategy to shop-floor execution
• Ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and spend meaningful time on the shop floor
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issues security clearance is required. U.S. Citizenship is required, as only U.S. Citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

• Experience in aerospace, defense, additive manufacturing, machining, assembly, or complex hardware manufacturing
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, or equivalent practical improvement experience
• Experience with AS9100 or other regulated manufacturing environments
• Experience deploying a production system, business operating system, or lean transformation across a manufacturing site
• Experience managing or directly leading Industrial Engineers, Continuous Improvement Engineers, or Operations Excellence teams
• Experience supporting manufacturing readiness, rate readiness, run-at-rate events, or production scale-up
• Experience with Theory of Constraints, takt planning, line balancing, pull systems, WIP control, and production flow design
• Experience with ERP, MES, PLM, scheduling systems, or manufacturing data systems
• Experience building lean training programs, kaizen funnels, improvement roadmaps, visual standards, IE models, capacity models, or maturity assessments
• Experience with Power BI, Smartsheet, Excel, SQL, simulation tools, CAD layout tools, or other tools used to track operational performance and improvement activity
• Ability to connect lean and industrial engineering work to business outcomes, including safety, quality, delivery, cost, cash, productivity, rate readiness, and employee engagement

If this sounds like you, please submit an application with your resume. This could be the opportunity you are looking for to expand your skills, contribute to a winning team, and work with talented people who love what they do and take pride in our mission.

Beehive Industries offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes group Medical, Dental, Life, and Short and Long-Term disability coverage from day one. We also offer a generous 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a Company match. Every role at Beehive Industries is bonus eligible and will also receive equity in the company.

Beehive Industries is committed to full compliance with applicable anti-discrimination laws. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We strive to create an inclusive work environment and will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.