Sr. Manager Supply Chain Excellence (Regional TPM / Opex manager with focus on Autonomous Maintenance)
Posted Jul 16, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you had to convince a plant manager or senior leader to invest time and resources in IL6S when they were focused on hitting short-term production numbers instead.
What they are checking: ability to influence senior stakeholders who don't report to them and sell the long-term value of Opex work
Give me an example of a loss analysis you led that tied directly to a revenue, margin, or cash-flow improvement. What was the loss and what did you find?
What they are checking: whether they can connect shop-floor improvement work to business financial outcomes, as the role demands
Describe a time you had to train and coach a group of operators or technicians who were skeptical or resistant to a new maintenance methodology.
What they are checking: hands-on coaching skill and change management with frontline workers, not just executives
Tell me about a time your process improvement initiative failed or stalled. What went wrong and what did you change?
What they are checking: self-awareness and resilience, since large-scale culture change rarely goes smoothly the first time
How have you built or improved a talent pipeline for reliability or process excellence roles at a site, including identifying and developing people who weren't obviously ready yet?
What they are checking: whether they build lasting capability in others versus doing the work themselves
What would you do
Say you're rolling out the same IL6S roadmap across five sites in the region and two of them are hitting real progress while three are stalled. How do you diagnose why the laggards aren't moving and what do you do differently with each one?
What they are checking: strategic thinking about differentiated coaching versus a one-size-fits-all rollout
You're spending half your time traveling across multiple plants in the region. How do you keep momentum on capability building at a site when you're only physically there part of the time?
What they are checking: capacity to manage a distributed, travel-heavy role and build local ownership rather than dependency on the traveling coach
If a site's asset reliability numbers are strong on paper but breakdowns keep recurring in the same three lines, what's your approach to finding the real root cause versus the reported one?
What they are checking: practical problem-solving instinct and whether they trust data blindly or dig into the floor
About the work
Walk me through how you built an autonomous maintenance program from the ground up at a manufacturing site. What did the first ninety days look like for the operators?
What they are checking: whether the candidate has actually led AM implementation versus just being exposed to it
How do you measure whether an autonomous maintenance pillar is actually working versus just producing paperwork and checklists that nobody uses?
What they are checking: depth of real TPM knowledge versus surface familiarity with the terminology
What does a mature Step 4 or Step 5 autonomous maintenance pillar look like to you, and what specific evidence would you look for on the floor to confirm it's really there?
What they are checking: technical fluency in TPM maturity models and ability to audit real progress, not just theory
How do you talk about the business case for TPM and Opex work with someone in finance who only sees it as a cost center?
What they are checking: business and financial acumen combined with communication skill across functions
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