Specialist, Lean
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The Lean Specialist facilitates continuous improvement at Southwire’s Dallas Fort Worth Distribution Center, supporting the value stream by analyzing processes, identifying root causes, and reducing costs and workflow inefficiencies. Reporting to the Value Stream Manager, the role leads cross-functional teams, promotes a growing lean culture, and implements operational improvement and training initiatives. A bachelor’s degree, Green Belt certification or progress toward it, and 2–4 years of experience are required.
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Specialist, Lean
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Date: Oct 21, 2026
Location: Ft Worth, TX, US, 76177
Company: Southwire Company LLC
A leader in technology and innovation, Southwire Company, LLC is one of North America’s largest wire and cable producers. Southwire and its subsidiaries manufacture building wire and cable, utility products, metal-clad cable, portable and electronic cord products, OEM wire products and engineered products. In addition, Southwire supplies assembled products, contractor equipment, electrical components, hand tools and jobsite power and lighting solutions. The company also offers digital solutions including contractor planning and utility grid resiliency as well as field services including cable testing, rejuvenation and replacement to support our customers as a value-add partner. We are proud to offer competitive compensation, employee benefits, tuition reimbursement and unlimited growth opportunities. Our more than seven decades of progressive growth can be attributed to our determination to developing innovative systems and solutions, exercising environmental stewardship and enhancing the well-being of the communities in which we work and live. How will you power what’s possible?
Location: Dallas Fort Worth Distribution Center
Job Summary
This position is a key contributor to the DC and has direct responsibility for facilitating continuous improvement activities at the DC level in support of the value stream. Reporting to the Value Stream Manager, this individual plays an essential role in initiating, facilitating, implementing, and leading positive change within the organization. This individual will analyze business processes using various lean tools such as gap analysis, fishbone diagrams, and value stream maps to determine root causes. The essential goal is to facilitate progress, reduce costs, both in terms of sales and workflow inefficiencies. Excellent project management skills coupled with a positive leadership style will enable the individual to gain success as they lead cross functional teams in the quest to eliminate waste within all areas of operation.
Key Responsibilities
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Provides direction to ensure that lean culture continues to grow.
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Leads cross-functional project teams to solve reoccurring problems.
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Identifies and eliminates waste in all DC operations.
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Facilitates continuous improvement projects by defining and communicating scope, objectives, and direction to team members and management to ensure that the correct technologies fit, and appropriate strategies are implemented.
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Fosters a “bottom up” approach to continuous improvement (floor level up – gets “buy-in”)
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Standardizes and documents key plan operation processes.
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Responsible for implementing all OPS Training Initiatives. (Fishbone diagrams, value stream mapping).
Required Education & Experience
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
Licenses/Certificates: Green Belt Certification or progressing towards Green Belt Certification
Years of Experience: 2-4 years
Preferred Education & Experience
Licenses/Certificates: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Years of Experience: 5-7 Years
Spans of Control
Does this role Manage Southwire Team Members: No
Travel
Travel: None
Physical Requirements
Standing: 40%
Sitting: 30%
Walking: 30%
Working Conditions
Office
Plant/Warehouse Floor
Overtime, Weekends, & Holidays
Equipment
Computer/Keyboard
Safety Glasses
Safety Shoes
Competencies
Action Oriented
Plans and Aligns
Balances Stakeholders
Customer Focus
Collaborates
Nimble Learning
Skills
Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
Engineering Design Process
Influencing Skills
Investigation
Statistical Process Controls
Product Quality (QA/QC)
Fabrication
Tooling
Continuous Improvement Process
New Product Development
Benefits We Offer:
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401k with Matching
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Family and Individual Insurance Packages (Health, Life, Dental, and Vision)
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Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays
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Long & Short-Term Disability
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Supplemental Insurance Plans
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Employee Assistance Program
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Employee Referral Program
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Tuition Reimbursement Programs
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Advancement & Professional Growth opportunities
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Parental Leave
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Southwire is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Nearest Major Market: Fort Worth
Nearest Secondary Market: Dallas
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How this job compares
Set against the 443 open Continuous Improvement jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$108–157K/yr188 salary ranges
- US median$22–25/hr26 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 43 open Continuous Improvement jobs in Texas and 443 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Continuous Improvement postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 300 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 180 of the 443 open Continuous Improvement jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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