Nammo is strengthening its efforts within operational excellence and is looking for a new Operational Excellence Manager with a focus on training, facilitation, and continuous improvement (CI) work. In this role, you will work closely with local teams across the company to support and facilitate improvement activities in practice, and to ensure that improvement methods and knowledge are shared, embedded, and developed over time.

This role is well suited for someone who enjoys working closely with people and building capability, by guiding teams, providing structure, and supporting continuous improvement in daily operations. You’ll be part of a small corporate team that supports operational excellence across the Nammo Group, working in close collaboration with sites and local stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

You will collaborate with business units and sites in a supportive and advisory role, with a strong emphasis on developing people and capabilities, within the following areas:

Ensure knowledge Sharing: Promote the exchange of operational knowledge and best practices across business units and sites. Manage forums as central hubs for sharing insights and strategies

Ensure knowledge development: Develop guidelines and principles for OpX-related training in Nammo. Support local development and execution of training, and develop and execute selected companywide training programs

Enhance KPIs: Collaborate with business units and sites to support the development and improvement of KPIs aligned with strategic objectives and operational standards, including related organizational aspects

Assessment: Develop assessments and related competency, and audit site self-assessments to ensure compliance with operational standards and best practices

Benchmarking: Develop benchmarks by analyzing data from industry peers and internal metrics, setting standards for evaluating operational efficiency and effectiveness

Define Common Processes and Best Practices: Lead the development and standardization of operational processes and best practices organization-wide. Utilize industry benchmarks, internal data, and continuous improvement efforts to create operational guidelines

Provide hands-on support for improvement initiatives at local sites

Skills and Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a practical mindset and a talent for working with people. You may have a background from production, operations, technical support or similar, what matters most is that you know how to build trust, explain things clearly, and help others improve. You don’t need to be an expert or senior profile, we’re interested in someone who is structured, independent, and willing to learn. You must be comfortable using digital tools and you understand how training and improvement work best when connected to everyday operations.

We prefer that you have:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or operations preferred. Extensive relevant experience may substitute for a formal degree

Experience from working in an industrial company

Experience in operational excellence, including Lean and Six Sigma, is highly valuable.

Strong verbal and written communication skills; English is the working language
Management positions within areas such as production, maintenance, projects and product development

It is beneficial with experience within some of these areas:

The use of applications related to OEE, MES, IoT

The use of Microsoft applications, including PowerBI

The use of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning or other analytical ways of handling big data

Why Nammo?

Nammo is a technology-driven company with operations in multiple countries and strong industrial roots. We work on meaningful challenges in defense and aerospace, and we’re growing. This role offers the chance to contribute to important transformation work at Group level, while working in a small, committed team that has real impact. You will learn a lot, get broad exposure, and help define how we work across the company.

Working conditions

This is a full-time role with presence required at a Nammo site, preferably at Raufoss. You will be required to travel in this role.

Please note that the position requires you to be eligible for a Norwegian/NATO security clearance and provide a valid police certificate.

Do you want to know more?

To ensure a fair and thorough selection process, we are collaborating with The Assessment Company, a professional partner specializing in recruitment and assessment. Feel free to contact one of our advisors in The Assessment Company if you have any questions regarding this position or the process:

Katrine Prebensen Tindeland: +47 480 26 486 / katrine.tindeland@theac.no

We are currently recruiting for two positions within Operational Excellence at Nammo:

Operational Excellence Manager (incl. program management)

Operational Excellence Manager (incl. training and CI-projects)

The roles have overlapping responsibilities but different focus areas. Please indicate in your application whether you are applying for one of the roles or would like to be considered for both.

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