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WCM Continuous Improvement Manager

Saint-Gobain

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Compensation
$102–158K/yr
Location
SILVER GROVE, KY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The WCM Continuous Improvement Manager leads the plant’s World Class Manufacturing and operational excellence strategy, establishing the roadmap, governance, and routines for continuous improvement. The role uses operational and financial data to prioritize loss reduction, aligns plant leaders around performance, and develops workforce capability through training and coaching. It also partners across functions and leads site-wide change to sustain improvements in safety, quality, service, cost, people, and growth.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Continuous ImprovementWorld Class ManufacturingOperational ExcellenceCost DeploymentLoss AnalysisPerformance AlignmentLearning and DevelopmentTraining and CoachingProblem SolvingStandardized WorkChange Leadership

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
401(k) Match

Full job description

Lead the plant’s continuous improvement strategy and deployment of World Class Manufacturing by building the skills, tools, governance, and implementation plans required to identify, prioritize, and eliminate losses. Provide change leadership across the site to deliver sustainable, world-class improvement in Safety, Quality, Service, Cost, People, and Growth performance.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

  • Lead the plant’s WCM/OPEX strategy and deployment , establishing the roadmap, governance, standards, and operating routines needed to embed continuous improvement into the way the plant operates.

  • Own Cost Deployment, loss analysis, and improvement prioritization , using operational and financial data to identify the highest-value opportunities, align resources, track projects, and validate sustainable business results.

  • Drive plant-wide performance alignment through the Single Agenda , bringing leaders and functions together around priorities, KPIs, actions, barriers, and countermeasures.

  • Lead the plant’s learning and development strategy , including onboarding, qualification and certification programs, skills development, leadership development, and cross-functional training to strengthen workforce capability and readiness.

  • Build WCM capability across the organization by training and coaching leaders, pillar teams, engineers, supervisors, and employees in WCM principles, problem solving, standardized work, and continuous improvement.

  • Serve as a key change leader for the site , strengthening accountability, employee engagement, ownership, and a culture where continuous improvement becomes part of the plant’s everyday management system.

  • Partner across Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Technical, HR, and regional WCM resources to standardize best practices, prepare for WCM assessments, address performance gaps, and sustain improvements.

Through the responsible development of innovative and sustainable building products, CertainTeed, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has helped shape the building products industry for more than 110 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Manufacturing Company, the firm's slogan "Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed," inspired the name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed is a leading North American brand of exterior and interior building products, including roofing, siding, trim, insulation, drywall and ceilings. A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest and oldest building products companies, CertainTeed has more than 6,300 employees and more than 60 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and

Canada. www.certainteed.com

Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.

Certain locations require pay information be provided in job postings. Saint-Gobain aims to deliver a comprehensive Total Rewards package to support our employees’ wellbeing and help improve daily life for themselves and their families. We believe in the importance of pay transparency in what we offer potential candidates. Provided is the national pay range for this position, which is $102,000.00 to $158,000.00 per year.

However, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for an annual bonus. The targeted bonus amount is TARGET BONUS% of base salary based on company and individual performance measures. The Total Target Cash range (base pay and annual bonus) for this position, is $115,200.00 to $178,500.00 of the base salary. Bonus payments are part of variable compensation and by nature can vary based on company and individual performance and is not a guarantee.

  • Saint-Gobain is committed to helping you and your family be well in all aspects of your life. BeWell. Be You brings together inclusive programs and meaningful resources to support all aspects of your physical, emotional, financial, and social well-being. Employees have the flexibility to choose the benefits that best fit their individual needs. Health and Well-being – Supporting your wellbeing, to thrive in life and work.

o Medical, Prescription Drug, Vision, and Dental Insurance

o Healthcare Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account options

o LiveWell Wellness Program

o Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

o Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave

  • Retirement and Protection - Helping to make the future life you want a reality.

o 401(k) with Company Match, Retirement Accumulation Plan (RAP) Cash Balance Pension Plan

o Company-provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Short-Term Disability

Last Updated: May 2026

o Voluntary employee and dependent life insurance, Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness and

Accident Insurance

  • Additional Benefits – Helping shape the experience and impact you want

o Commuter Benefits

o Group Legal

o Identity Theft Protection

o Auto and Home Insurance

o Pet Insurance and Discounts

o Back-up Child and Elder Care

o PerkSpot Employee Discount Program

o Volunteer Day

How this job compares

Set against the 8,332 open Operations Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$102–158K/yr
  • Kentucky median$80–108K/yr81 salary ranges
  • US median$84–119K/yr4,815 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $130K, is 40% above the Kentucky median midpoint ($93K) — in the middle half of Operations Manager salary ranges in Kentucky.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 165 open Operations Manager jobs in Kentucky and 8,332 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Kentucky
Experience
Operations Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (6,287 postings).
Education
1,714 of the 8,332 open Operations Manager jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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