Continuous Improvement Lead
Continuous Improvement Lead
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Job Description
Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp.is a proud member of the Mondelz family. We are a leading and growing North American manufacturer of baked goods for over 30 years. If youre looking for a company that will provide you with opportunities for career growth and development while working with an energetic and team with deeply ingrained values of respect direct and open communication quality and accountability wed love to have you join our team. Our Consumer Brands: twobite brand including two bitebrownies Kimberleys Bakeshoppe Mason St. Bakehouse and The Worthy Crumb Pastry Co
Its an exciting time to part of the Give & Goteam as we are growing rapidly and want you to become a part of our growth and extraordinarily bright future!
Job Overview:
This role will be responsible for driving process and capability improvement to ultimately deliver breakthrough results and achieve the plant/bakery goals by working with crossfunctional teams to optimize processes create new processes identify areas of improvement and drive the culture of CI within the organization through coaching.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support Plant Leadership through participation in Daily Operational Reviews problem solving initiatives data analysis metric reporting and effective loss elimination to improve plant reliability and waste reduction.
- Help implement change management principles at all levels of the plant through coaching and engaging employees.
- Achieve plant productivity targets by developing projects ideas and best practices linked to the plant Loss Analysis.
- Validate new processes and optimize current processes (Ex: Changeovers Sanitation CIL Center lining etc.
- Implement and train different functions on new tools (ex: standard work TPM tools gap analysis data analysis loss analysis) and ensure employee capability is being built.
- Play an important part in leading and supporting cross functional teams though the preparation and follow up of continuous improvement projects.
Recipe for Success:
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in Maintenance Engineering or Production role ideally in an industrial Food Manufacturing environment.
- Prior experience leading CI projects incorporating 5S Kanban Visual Management and other Lean methodologies.
- Six Sigma Certification a strong asset
- Proven capability of leading a transformation effort including change management ensuring stakeholder engagement and robust communication
- The ability to coach inspire and work with cross functional managers supervisors and employees
- Ability to influence all levels of the organization and make strategic decisions
- The ability to work in the context of a corporate wide lean standardization program but also provide best practices that may be able to help other sites
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships
- Strong leadership skills to motivate and retain wellqualified individuals of diverse talents interests and cultural backgrounds. Must have the leadership presence to energize drive and lead the teams and to be able to influence with integrity at all levels of the organization and enable result through others.
What We Can Offer:
- Its an exciting time to be part of the Give & Go team as we are growing rapidly and want you to become a part our growth and extraordinarily bright future.
- As we grow we are committed to preserve the parts of our diversity & culture that is unique people focused and are core to our success at every size. Our values of Quality Direct Communication and Respect mean something.
- Learning and growth; we are working to create an environment where sharing new ideas experimenting and learning from each other is strongly encouraged.
Other details
- Job FamilyProfessional
- Pay TypeSalary
Employment Type
Full-Time
