CI Manager

WHO WE ARE

With over 11,000 employees at over 40 facilities across US & Europe, Hearthside Food Solutions is one of the fastest growing food companies and the industry's largest contract manufacturer. Our secret to success? Our people. We know an investment in our people is an investment in our company. We strive to understand our team members and support them however we can. By empowering employees through skill development and career advancement opportunities, we emphasize a culture of continuous improvement - both for the business and our people. We want team members that will support us in owning safety together - speaking up when they see a problem. When we focus on our people and safety, it ensures we all are driving better performance as well as on time delivery to our customers

WHAT WE WANT TO GIVE YOU

We offer a competitive wage and wide array of benefits including: • health/dental/vision insurance • flex spending accounts • short & long-term disability • paid holidays and vacation • bonus opportunities (referral, production, etc.).

Job Summary:CI Manager is responsible for driving sustainable continuous improvements in the facility by delivering breakthrough results in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Morale. The CI Manager works closely with plant leadership and department employees to achieve results. This position requires strong technical Lean Manufacturing and hands-on leadership skills.

Job Duties:

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Leads, facilitates, and coaches Kaizen events to drive sustainable improvements
• Works closely with plant operations and CI team
• Develop and execute improvement action plans
• Executes and improves SOC / Center lining, wash down, and other various heatmaps to drive improvement within the facility
• Build an employee engaged work environment
• Provide and teach ways of working
• Ability to perform theory of constratints, choke point analysis, identify the constraint, and implement practical and effective solutions to improving throughput
• Establishes and drives productivity pipeline roadmaps across departments and facility
• Tracks and analyzes the CI initiatives
• Working knowledge of P&L/financial acumen to course correct CI plans based on weekly financial and P&L results as needed, identify cost savings, and to track effectiveness of lean activities
• Understands and drives the use of SAP tools to understand the needs of the plant

• Responsible for implementing and coaching HIPs HPS tools to improve all areas of plants

• Build cultural Lean change throughout the plant

• Facilitate and coach RCA and CAPA
• Work with customers, suppliers and all levels of management staff
• Responsible for managing multiple projects at the same time
• Ensure the facility implements and maintains a positive ways of working agile and Continuous Improvement approach
  • Leverage resources and share best practices across multiple plants when possible

Required Competencies & Knowledge:

Knowledge of:

• Knowledge and experience with SAP

Skill in:

• A strong application knowledge of LEAN Manufacturing techniques and related CI tools are required: Root Cause Analysis, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, OEE, First Hour Full Power, Labor Analysis, 5S, 8Wastes, Changeovers, Six Sigma, etc
• The CI Manager should possess extensive technical skills and hands-on experience in continuous improvement manufacturing activities
• Bias for action, change agent, challenging the status quo to drive to operations excellence
• Strong will to drive change and influence without authority
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work with autonomy.
• Must be accurate, detail-oriented and maintain the utmost confidentiality.

Ability to:

• Ability to effectively present information to employees, top management, public groups and/or board of directors.
• Ability to define problems, collect and calculate data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram and/or schedule form.
• Ability to work well with others in stressful situations and meet deadlines as necessary.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, while at the same time making sound decisions.
• Must have a strong will to drive change and sustain.

Proficiency in: MS Office Suite, Excel, and PP

Work Environment:

• Maintain harmonious working relations with employees from all departments.
• Maintain harmonious working relations with management from all levels.
• Communicate effectively with all employees and management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Engineering, Business or Operations.
• Bakeries a strong plus
• 2 (two) - 3 (three) years' experience in the Continuous Improvement
• 1 (one) - 2 (two) years' in a manufacturing environment, preferred

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Other details

• Job Family Manager
• Pay Type Salary

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