For Immediate Release
M.C. Dean has appointed Al Mason as executive vice president of Lean Enterprise, marking his return to the company to lead and scale operational excellence across the organization.
In 2024, Mason helped launch lean manufacturing and operational excellence efforts at M.C. Dean’s Modular Mission Critical™ (MMC) campus. Following continued investment in this area, he now returns in an expanded role to drive M.C. Dean’s lean transformation across the enterprise.
Reporting to CEO Bill Dean, Mason will lead the development and execution of M.C. Dean’s Lean Enterprise strategy, enhancing how the company designs, manufactures, and delivers solutions at scale. “Al’s return reflects our commitment to continuously improving how we operate, enhancing efficiency and driving value to our customers,” said Bill Dean. “His experience building high-performing systems and developing leaders will help us scale these efforts across the company.”
Mason brings more than 35 years of experience in engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise transformation, with deep expertise in lean management and the Toyota Production System (TPS). He has led business-system deployments across global manufacturing and service environments, including Goodrich Corporation, Altra Industrial Motion, Regal Rexnord and ESAB, driving measurable gains in productivity, quality, and delivery performance. Lean principles focus on maximizing value-added work while eliminating inefficiencies. At M.C. Dean, lean is expanding beyond manufacturing at MMC into project sites, engineering, and enterprise operations, supporting more efficient, predictable, and high-quality outcomes that drive customer value.
“I’m excited to return to M.C. Dean at a time when there is strong alignment around the opportunity lean brings to scale productivity to meet customer demands,” said Mason. “We’ve already seen the impact these principles can have, and I look forward to building on that foundation to further improve how we work and deliver value to our customers.”
Mason holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Duke University. In 2024, he was inducted into NC State’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Hall of Fame.