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Aptyx

Production Lead

Taunton, MA · On-site

$19.25 - $26.50/hr

... manages labeling processes, supports production logistics, maintains manufacturing tooling and cleanliness standards, and contributes to process improvement initiatives such as Value Stream Mapping.

Aptyx

Production Lead

Taunton, MA · On-site

$58K - $63K/yr

... manages labeling processes, supports production logistics, maintains manufacturing tooling and cleanliness standards, and contributes to process improvement initiatives such as Value Stream Mapping.

Aptyx

Production Lead

Taunton, MA · On-site

$58K - $63K/yr

... manages labeling processes, supports production logistics, maintains manufacturing tooling and cleanliness standards, and contributes to process improvement initiatives such as Value Stream Mapping.

Prysmian Group

Lean Transformation Manager

Taunton, MA · On-site

$96K - $130K/yr

Target high-volume, high-revenue value streams where results matter most * Ensure every initiative ... Daily Management & Visual Systems But more importantly: * You know how to influence leaders who do ...

PrysmianGroup

Lean Transformation Manager

Taunton, MA

$96K - $130K/yr

Target high-volume, high-revenue value streams where results matter most * Ensure every initiative ... Daily Management & Visual Systems But more importantly: * You know how to influence leaders who do ...

Prysmian USA

Lean Transformation Manager

Taunton, MA · On-site

$100K - $130K/yr

The Lean Transformation Manager will drive continuous improvement initiatives by developing and ... Target high-volume, high-revenue value streams where results matter most * Ensure every initiative ...

Prysmian

Lean Transformation Manager

Taunton, MA · On-site

$100K - $130K/yr

Value Stream Transformation. * Flow & Pull Systems. * Hoshin Kanri. * SMED, TPM, Standard Work ... Daily Management & Visual Systems. But more importantly: * You know how to influence leaders who do ...

Prysmian

Lean Transformation Manager

Taunton, MA

$48.08 - $62.50/hr

The Lean Transformation Manager will drive continuous improvement initiatives by developing and ... Target high-volume, high-revenue value streams where results matter most * Ensure every initiative ...

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How much do value stream manager jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 22, 2026, the average yearly pay for value stream manager in Cranston, RI is $65,298.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $43,000.00 and $85,600.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a value stream manager?

A value stream manager typically works in the manufacturing industry to streamline a production process so that it becomes more efficient. As a value stream manager, your goal is to minimize waste, both in material and time, by using the least amount of labor and material to create a given product and to keep the production cycle moving while maintaining a consistently high quality of work. Job duties include leading staff to meet targets for production, customer service, and quality, overseeing all value stream metrics, executing the shipping/receiving process, and guiding employees to adhere to company policies and procedures.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a value stream manager, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Value Stream Manager, you need expertise in lean manufacturing principles, process optimization, and a background in engineering or operations management. Familiarity with tools such as value stream mapping, ERP systems, and Six Sigma or Lean certifications is highly beneficial. Strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills are essential for driving cross-functional teams and fostering continuous improvement. These skills are crucial for improving efficiency, reducing waste, and achieving operational excellence across value streams.

How does a value stream manager typically collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize process efficiency?

A Value Stream Manager works closely with teams from production, quality, engineering, and supply chain to identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements across the entire value stream. Collaboration often involves leading kaizen events, facilitating regular meetings to review workflow bottlenecks, and aligning team goals with overall business objectives. By fostering open communication and leveraging each department's expertise, the Value Stream Manager ensures that improvements are sustainable and that all stakeholders are engaged in driving operational excellence.

What is the difference between Value Stream Manager vs Production Supervisor?

AspectValue Stream ManagerProduction Supervisor
CredentialsBachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, or related field; certifications like Lean or Six SigmaHigh school diploma or associate degree; relevant experience often preferred
Work EnvironmentOversees entire value streams, coordinating multiple teams and processesManages daily production activities on the shop floor
Industry UsageCommon in manufacturing, automotive, and supply chain sectorsWidely used across manufacturing and industrial plants

The Value Stream Manager focuses on optimizing entire value streams, including process improvements and cross-department coordination, while the Production Supervisor manages daily manufacturing operations on the shop floor. Both roles require manufacturing knowledge, but the VSM has a broader strategic scope.

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Director Field Technology

PPL Corporation

Providence, RI • Hybrid

Full-time

Re-posted 15 days ago

PPL rating

6.8

Company rating: 6.8 out of 10

Based on 46 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

44th of 53 rated energy and utility

Job description

Company Summary Statement
As one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the United States, PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), is committed to creating long-term, sustainable value for our 3.5 million customers, our shareowners and the communities we serve. Our high-performing regulated utilities - PPL Electric Utilities, Louisville Gas and Electric, Kentucky Utilities and Rhode Island Energy - provide an outstanding experience for our customers, consistently ranking among the best utilities in the nation. PPL's companies are also addressing challenges head-on by investing in new infrastructure and technology that is creating a smarter, more reliable and resilient energy grid. We are committed to doing our part to advance a cleaner energy future and drive innovation that enables us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while maintaining energy reliability and affordability for the customers and communities we serve. PPL is a positive force in the cities and towns where we do business, providing support for programs and organizations that empower the success of future generations by helping to build and maintain strong, diverse communities today.
Overview

NOTE:  This position is Hybrid - requiring 3 days in office - at one of our locations:  Allentown, PA; Louisville, KY or Providence, RI.  #INDPPL   #LI-Hybrid

TheDirector Field Technology (Gas & Electric Utility)will serve as a senior architecture leader withinPPL’s Enterprise Architecture community, supporting the Field Technology domain across electric and gas operations. This role is a core member of the team responsible for drivingPPL Enterprise Architecture technology standards across Field Technology Value Streams, ensuring consistent application of standards, patterns, and governance across both new and existing platforms. 

The Director- Field Technology willlead the development and governance of field value stream-wide architectural strategies, ensuring alignment between business outcomes and IT execution, while adhering to PPL EA principles and standards for Field Technology Value Stream platforms. The role is accountable for maximizing value, minimizing risk, and accelerating transformation of business and digital strategy—enabling modernization, optimizing IT investments, and improving thereliability, scalability, security, and agilityof technology platforms that support field operations and broader corporate objectives. 

The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience defining and implementing complex enterprise architectures across key areas includingBusiness Architecture; Data & Information Architecture and Governance; Enterprise Architecture Operating Model; EA Strategy and Planning; Enterprise IT Governance; Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture; Integration Architecture; Security Architecture; Solution and Application Architecture; and Technology Platforms.

This position reports to theSenior Director, Enterprise Technology, and partners closely with theIT Field value stream leaders, business partners, product owners, and engineering teams to ensure architectural coherence, delivery enablement, and measurable outcomes. 


Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership 

  • Develop Point of Views on technology, industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the Field Technology Value Stream 

  • Drive innovation by aligning the mindset towards moving from technology driven to business outcome driven architecture 

  • Collaborate with the IT Portfolio Enterprise Architect and other Value Stream Domain Architects on the creation and/or evolution of the EA function or program. 

  • Collaborate with IT and Business leaders to develop digital vision and build the digital strategy for Field Technology Value Stream 

  • Analyze the current Field Technology environment to detect critical capability gaps and recommend solutions for improvement. Promote configuration and parameterization over customization 

  • Develop and maintain field operations architecture roadmaps including applications, integrations, data, and infrastructure 

  • Enable transformation and delivery of key field operations systems, including: 

  • EAM / Work Management (e.g., Hexagon EAM, OpenGrid) 

  • GIS – ESRI ArcGIS 

  • OMS / ADMS 

  • Mobile workforce management 

  • Scheduling and dispatch 

  • Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution (BITS) architecture requirements 

  • Consult with application/infrastructure development projects to fit systems to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate project needs 

  • Understand, advocate and support the enterprise's information technology strategies 

  • Responsible for the development and ongoing support of key architectural solution components  

  • Drive the continual development of the architectural runway for the Field Technology Value Stream 

  • Manages and is accountable for driving the development of solution for Field Technology Value Stream architecture issues 

Architecture Governance 

  • Contribute to the Field Architecture community and help to define and promote architecture principles, frameworks and governance processes. 

  • Define standards for solution architecture, integration, and data management across platforms. 

  • Establish, enforce and govern reference architectures, design principles and authoritative systems of records for assets, work and crews 

  • Review solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise and domain architecture 

  • Identify and manage cross value stream integration complexity and dependencies  

Solutions Architecture: 

  • Assesses wider industry technology trends (e.g., artificial intelligence, robot process automation, internet of things, cloud, DevOps, microservices, event-driven architectures etc.) and best practices to identify best-in-class Technology and architecture direction  

  • Serve as the architecture authority for field operations capabilities, including: 

  • Work and asset management 

  • Field mobility 

  • Outage and emergency response 

  • Vegetation management and compliance 

  • Partner closely with Field Ops leadership to translate operational needs into scalable architectural solutions. 

  • Additional responsibilities include: 

  • Contribution towards the improvement of the Architecture review process 

  • Develop and drive architectural technology standards within their specific discipline 

  • Governance of architecture standards 

  • Technology strategy 

  • Works with various Field Technology teams to champion the adoption of patterns, platforms, and tools to support the usage and conformity of solution architecture 

  • Collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to align architectures with security and compliance requirements 

Risk & Compliance 

  • Ensure Field Technology Value Stream complies with cybersecurity, data privacy, and industry regulations 

  • Design architecture that is resilient, secure, and supports disaster recovery strategies. 

Stakeholder Management 

  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders in IT, operations, and business. 

  • Work with project managers, solution architects, and delivery teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture. 


Qualifications

Required Qualifications & Experience: 

  • Bachelor’s degree. 

  • Masters degree highly preferred. 

  • 10-Year background in delivering scalable, compliant, Enterprise Architecture. 

  • Knowledge of work management, asset management, geospatial, and mobility functional domains and platforms / architectures 

  • Enterprise Asset Management (Hexagon, Maximo, SAP, OpenGrid), geographical and design platforms (ArcGIS, AUD), operations mobile tool landscape knowledge, middleware architecture (light-weight containerization), and integration with enterprise, customer, back office, and other systems desirable. 

  • Proven experience with cloud platforms, hybrid architecture. 

  • Utilities Enterprise Architecture and field operations experience/knowledge a plus 

Skills & Competencies: 

  • Strategic thinking and business acumen. 

  • Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns and field technologies. 

  • Excellent knowledge of utility industry processes and regulatory requirements. 

  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills. 

  • Familiarity with modern architecture trends. 

  • Core Skills 

  • SAFe Agile 

  • Application Design & Architecture 

  • Big Data Technologies 

  • AI (AI/ML, GenAI, Agentic) 

  • Cloud Fundamentals 

  • Data & Information Security 

  • DevOps Practices 

  • Event Driven & API based Architectures 

  • Roadmap Creation and Product Vision 

  • Security Fundamentals 

  • Vendor Landscape 

  • Application Architecture 

  • N-Tier 

  • Microservices 

  • Event-driven 

  • Domain Driven Design 

  • Collaboration Tools 

  • Agile work management tooling expertise  

  • Architecture experience supportingfield operationsfor electric/gas utilities (construction, maintenance, inspections, leak surveys, emergency response, outage/restoration, switching, safety/compliance). 

  • Proven ability to designfield-to-enterpriseworkflows spanning work orders, asset registry, location/GIS edits, inspection forms, materials, time capture, customer/service impacts, and operational reporting. 

  • Hands-on architecture experience withEAM in utilities in a transmission and distribution (T&D) context, including: 

  • Work management patterns (e.g., PM/CS or utilities work management equivalents), work order lifecycle, functional location/equipment, notifications, confirmations, materials integration. 

  • Designing EAM integrations with ERP (finance, supply chain, human experience management) 

  • Architecture experience withEsri ArcGISin a utility context (ArcGIS Enterprise / ArcGIS Online patterns as applicable), including: 

  • GIS as a critical dependency for field execution: network/asset spatial context, map services, feature edits, and field data capture. 

  • Designing GIS integrations with SAP (work order initiation, asset/location synchronization, and bi-directional status updates). 

  • Architecture experience withHexagon EAM/field mobilityand associated enterprise integrations, including Mobile execution patterns (task-focused UX, inspections/checklists, asset registry access, data capture) and integration of data flows back to SAP and/or the enterprise integration layer. 

  • Experience architecting solutions involvingOpenGrid(and/or comparable utility field/workforce platforms) 

  • Experience supporting multi-OpCo company utility models 

  • Integrating field tooling with enterprise systems to “bring the most critical information forward” for field teams and modernize field management workflows. 

  • Ability to work across vendor ecosystems where OpenGrid is one of multiple platforms in the landscape. 

KPIs / Success Metrics: 

  • Alignment of IT strategy with business objectives. 

  • Reduction in technology complexity, tech-debt, customization and operational costs. 

  • Uptime and performance of integrated enterprise platforms. 

  • Successful delivery of strategic transformation programs. 

  • Compliance with architecture, governance and standards. 

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications & Experience: 

  • Bachelor’s degree. 

  • Masters degree highly preferred. 

  • 10-Year background in delive...

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