Job Description

Primary location: Macon, Georgia
Relocation offered: No
Employment status: Full-Time
Travel: <10%
Non-compete: No

The estimated base salary range for this role is $120,000 to $150,000 per year.
Individual pay is based upon location, skills and expertise, experience and other relevant factors
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Manager, Productivity and Continuous Improvement

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead productivity, strategic planning, and execution of key Plant Operations initiatives.
• Partner with Finance, Operational Excellence, and Manufacturing teams to achieve productivity, growth, and EBITDA targets.
• Develop and manage Lean and Continuous Improvement strategy focused on manufacturing excellence and process capability.
• Drive company-wide improvements in plant reliability, scrap reduction, and productivity.
• Support EHS strategy, regulatory compliance, sustainability initiatives, and a zero-injury culture.
• Build a multi-year productivity pipeline aligned to strategic goals.
• Implement Agile and Lean Management Systems, including GEMBA walks, value stream mapping, policy deployment, and visual management.
• Lead operating plan execution across safety, quality, cost, productivity, and financial performance.
• Develop and monitor strategic plans, KPIs, investment priorities, and improvement roadmaps.
• Develop and mentor leaders in Lean tools such as SMED, Kaizen, TQM, TPM, and Poka Yoke.
• Directly supervise a team of 3–5 subject matter experts.

What Will Make You Successful

• Strong leadership, management, and collaboration skills to build and sustain a Lean culture.
• Executive presence with clear, purposeful communication across all levels of the organization.
• Proven ability to align teams, drive execution, and deliver measurable business results.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, data analysis, and project management skills.
• Demonstrated change management ability to lead transformation and motivate cross-functional teams.
• Applied knowledge of Agile, Lean Manufacturing, digitalization, and sustainability.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment and build trust with internal and external stakeholders.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
• Lean Certification.
• Successful transformational experience using Lean as the foundation for change.
• Demonstrated bottom-line impact through step-change improvement.
• Mastery of Lean tools with ability to identify opportunities, quantify ROI, and prioritize workstreams.
• Experience setting stretch targets, building roadmaps, and driving rapid change.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing and supply chain processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Finance, or Business-related discipline required; or 8–10 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with growth initiatives aligning market, customer, commercial, and operations disciplines.
• Demonstrated executive communication skills with the ability to frame complex opportunities clearly and concisely.
• Proven success building cross-functional teams and developing key talent.
• Excellent interpersonal and people management skills.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and holistic problem-solving skills.
• Effective change management leadership skills.
• Broad business understanding, market knowledge, and business intuition.
• Limited domestic travel required.

Why should you join Armstrong World Industries?

Armstrong World Industries (AWI) is an Americas leader in the design and manufacture of innovative interior and exterior architectural applications including ceilings, specialty walls and exterior metal solutions. With approximately $1.4 billion in revenue, AWI has about 3,700 employees and a manufacturing network of 21 facilities in North America.

At home, at work, in healthcare facilities, classrooms, stores, or restaurants, we offer interior solutions that help to enhance comfort, save time, improve building efficiency and overall performance, and create beautiful spaces.

For more than 160 years, we have built our business on trust and integrity. It set us apart then, and it sets us apart now, along with our ability to collaborate with and innovate for the people we're here to serve - our customers, our shareholders, our communities and our employees.

We are committed to developing new and sustainable architectural solutions, with design and performance possibilities that make a positive difference in spaces where we live, work, learn, heal and play. It's an exciting, rewarding business to be in, and we're committed to continue to grow and prosper for the benefit of all of our stakeholders. We hope you join us.

Our Sustainability Ambition

"Bringing our Purpose to Life" - lead a transformation in the design and building of spaces fit for today and tomorrow.
We are committed to:

• Engaging a diverse, purpose-driven workforce;
• Transforming buildings from structures that shelter into structures that serve and preserve the health and well-being of people and planet;
• Pursuing sustainable, innovative solutions for spaces where we live, work, learn heal and play;
• Being a catalyst for change with all of our stakeholders; and
• Making a positive difference in the environments and communities we impact

About the location (Macon GA)

Our Macon Plant, one of twenty Armstrong plants in North America, employs over 400 people working on rotating shifts, 24/7, in the manufacture and shipment of acoustical ceiling tile to Armstrong's customers. Located approximately 85 miles south of Atlanta, the Macon facility has 33 acres under one roof, or 1.5 million square feet of floor space. It is the largest ceiling tile factory in the world. The operations are complex, automated, use the latest modern management technology, and manufacture a wide range of commercial and residential ceiling products.

Macon, also known as the "Cherry Blossom Capital of the World", is in the heart of Georgia and marks a historical crossroads in the south. The city carries with it a rich cultural heritage while creating a strong vision for the future. Macon offers the amenities of a small friendly city with the advantages of a growing community.