Continuous Improvement Manager
Continuous Improvement Manager
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Job Description
Founded in 2013 Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at in retail at more than 2100 Kroger grocery stores Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple delicious meals no matter how busy they are.
In 2023 Home Chef introduced a new brand Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of readytoheat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are betterforyou versions of familiar favorites designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are proteinpacked fiberrich calorie and carb conscious ketofriendly and dietitianapproved.
Similar to our recipes we recognize that variety is the spice of life and therefore our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. Were eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic nextlevel thinkers to innovate on Home Chefs offerings.
We are looking for an exceptional people leader who can coach our plant employees to create a vision for lean operations and drive lasting impactful change at our production facilities. We are seeking a nononsense handson leader to enable systematic improvements in all areas of fulfillment from light assembly and inventory management to implementing enterprisewide technology (e.g. WMS). The ideal candidate will be able to lead insightful rapid problemsolving to unlock value; they will be equally comfortable to see through tactical change on the shop floor and in the warehouse. This role is a unique opportunity to put their mark on driving bestinclass lean operational practices and build a highskill impactled team at a fastpaced startup.
Distinctive performers will have ample opportunities to grow and progress quickly in our rapidly expanding operations organization. The Continuous Improvement Manager reports directly to the fulfillment centers Plant Director. We invest heavily in our people at Home Chef and we are looking for leaders who are effective and efficient managers but also role models and mentors.
Lead Site CI Initiatives
- Develop a plan for continuous improvement across all plant functions; prioritize initiatives through impact and feasibility in partnership with department leaders corporate resources peers at the other fulfillment centers and the Plant Director.
- Identify needs and opportunities for greater efficiency and effectiveness in the endtoend fulfillment process through onsite observation and crossfunctional brainstorming sessions
- Support initiatives tied to clear financial and operational targets
- Drive impactful lasting change through continuous improvement initiatives by working alongside managers team leads and hourly associates
- Reinforcing bestpractices and SOPs through daytoday coaching and training in core business processes (e.g. production planning ingredient portioning labor scheduling)
- Advocate for initiatives and present business results in plant management meetings.
Site Operational Excellence Program liaison and Management Systems Pillar Lead
- Create schedule for operational excellence audits in partnership with site and National CI team
- Work with site and National CI team to prioritize and implement Management Systems best practices in accordance with the Home Chef Operational Excellence program
Participate in HC Network CI planning and execution
- Collaborate closely to implement initiatives with operations technology procurement food safety & quality operations analytics HR and most importantly plant fulfillment
- Act as a partner to share best practices across facilities with the aim of building a unified One Home Chef approach to fulfillment
- Report out metrics and improvement initiatives to National CI team
- Participate in network Kaizen events and act as site lead
Qualifications:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill ability and/or other characteristics needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
- You are an amazing leader who creates energy lives integrity leads change creates a vision and inspires people to achieve goals in a fastpaced highurgency CustomerFirst environment.
- Completion of a fouryear degree program in a related field: Engineering
- You are impactdriven first and foremost; you live and breathe performance management through KPIs and your passion is to make change stick in partnership with the plant managers department leaders and employees.
- You have a proven track record of achievement in change management and lean operations through daytoday coaching instilling new practices and tools and building enthusiasm to reach stretch targets (12 years experience in lean/six sigma preferred).
- You have a strong interest in the meal kit industry and a passion for delivering the best possible products to our consumers.
- You ideally have experience driving complex initiatives with multiple stakeholders across functions in a fastpaced environment.
- You are extremely comfortable in a plant environment in refrigerated conditions below 40 degrees.
More About Us
Perks and benefits
- Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
- Medical dental vision life and disability insurance available
- Paid holidays sick time and vacation time
- 401k program
- Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical dependent care parking or transit expenses
How We Work Together
We are humble team players.
We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves and respectfully listen to and accept input.
We are pragmatic nextlevel thinkers.
We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.
We take ownership.
We approach ambiguous problems prepared to dive in get curious and learn more. We are resultsdriven always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.
Be at Home at Home Chef
We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities backgrounds and perspectives. You can trust that youll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.
We welcome people of all races colors religions national origin or ancestry sex (including sexual identity) age physical or mental disabilities pregnancy veteran or military status unfavorable discharge from military service genetic information sexual orientation marital status order of protection status citizenship status arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal state or local law.
Home Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact our People team at .
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
