Operational Excellence & Transformation Lead, Site Operations
- Pay
- $95,200 – $142,800 per year
- Location
- Pasco, WA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 31 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
- Lean Six Sigma
- root-cause analysis
- maintenance and reliability management
- capital project execution
Also useful
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Qualifications & Requirements
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree, preferably in Engineering, Operations, Agriculture, Supply Chain, or a related technical field preferred.
- Equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification required, with the ability and commitment to obtain Black Belt certification.
A Minimum of 5 years of related experience in continuous improvement, transformation, operations, engineering, maintenance, reliability, and/or manufacturing/processing environments. A Minimum of 3 years of people-leadership experience or demonstrated supervisory experience, including contractor management. Experience leading cross-functional improvement or transformation projects outside normal day-to-day plant activities.
Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship support from Syngenta.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with capital project development and execution.
- Ability to translate strategy into a prioritized operational-excellence and transformation roadmap.
- Ability to lead project teams, manage trade-offs, control scope, and deliver committed outcomes.
- Ability to create standard work and sustain improvements through effective management systems, visual controls, and coaching.
- Ability to plan and execute maintenance work safely and efficiently in coordination with production requirements.
- Ability to diagnose complex problems using data and structured root-cause methods.
- Ability to develop people and create ownership for operational excellence, equipment care, and operational standards.
- Strong influencing skills and resilience when leading change through ambiguity or competing demands.
Ability to work independently while building strong partnerships across the site and broader organization.
What We Offer
- A culture that celebrates belonging and collaboration, promotes professional development and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members.
- Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs.
- Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.
- 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution.
- Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits.
- Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal.
- Use of AI in Our Recruitment Process At Syngenta, we use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen applications for high-volume roles.
- When you submit an application, AI technology assesses your profile against the job requirements and generates a matching score.
- This score reflects how closely your qualifications, skills, and experience align with the role's criteria as defined in the job description.
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About Us
We invite you to help us shape the future of agriculture. At Syngenta, we believe every employee has a role to play in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. To support that challenge, Syngenta Seeds is currently seeking an Operational Excellence & Transformation Lead, Site Operations in Pasco, Washington.
This role will lead the site operational-excellence and transformation agenda for vegetable seed processing, delivering measurable and sustainable gains in delivery, cost, capability, reliability, and employee engagement. Accountabilities Lead cross-functional improvement, digital, automation, capital, and reliability projects from opportunity identification through implementation, adoption, and verified benefits realization.
Provide functional leadership for the maintenance department and own the site maintenance and reliability strategy as critical enablers of reliable, efficient operations. In partnership with site HSE and Quality leadership, strengthen processes, systems, equipment, and ways of working by working across Operations, Engineering, Supply Operations, and Finance.
Operational Excellence & Transformation: Translate site strategy into a prioritized operational-excellence and transformation roadmap and project portfolio; prioritize initiatives using delivery, cost, reliability, capability, and people data.
Lead and implement transformation initiatives that improve processing flow, automation, digital tools, data visibility, systems, equipment, and operating practices; remove barriers and drive change adoption on the plant floor.
Manage cross-functional projects from business case through implementation and benefits realization, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, stakeholder alignment, communications, change adoption, and post-implementation review. Apply Lean, Six Sigma, visual management, standard work, and structured problem-solving methods to remove waste, improve process capability, and standardize successful improvements.
Maintenance & Reliability Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop the maintenance department, including maintenance technicians, contractors, and any supporting reliability resources; establish clear expectations, capability plans, and performance measures.
Own the site maintenance strategy and execution, including preventive, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance, to improve asset availability, reliability, and lifecycle performance. Establish and sustain maintenance planning, scheduling, work-order discipline, spare-parts management, and equipment-history practices in partnership with Operations.
Monitor maintenance and reliability measures-including planned-versus-reactive work, schedule compliance, downtime, mean time between failures, maintenance cost, and critical-spares availability-and use trends to prioritize action. Manage maintenance operating budgets, contractor spend, and spare-parts investment; deliver sustainable cost, productivity, and reliability improvements.
Partner with site HSE and Quality leadership to align operational-excellence, maintenance, and project work with site requirements and priorities.
About the Company
About Syngenta At Syngenta Seeds, we're shaping the future of agriculture and empowering farmers to meet the ever-growing demand for food and fuel. We're a global Ag Tech powerhouse, headquartered in the United States, with passionate, local experts collaborating with farmers to deliver solutions that create market opportunities.
We unite precision breeding, advanced biotechnology trait choice, and digital platforms for unmatched in-field performance. Our seeds help mitigate risks such as disease, insect, weed, and extreme weather pressures, all while promoting sustainable farming practices that protect and enhance our planet. Join our mission of revolutionizing food security and transforming agriculture.
From Syngenta Group's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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