Lean Manufacturing Changeover Specialist Job in Albuquerque, NM

Lean Manufacturing Changeover Specialist

We are looking for a Lean Manufacturing Changeover Specialist to lead changeover improvement initiatives for a high-volume manufacturing platform. This role is responsible for identifying opportunities to reduce changeover time while maintaining food safety, quality, effectiveness, and employee safety standards. The role will partner with production teams, platform leadership, Food Safety & Quality (FSQ), engineering, and operations personnel to analyze current processes, implement improvements, and drive sustainable performance gains.

Key Responsibilities:

· Analyze changeover processes and identify opportunities to reduce downtime while maintaining safety, quality, and operational effectiveness.

· Standardize changeover procedures, pre-changeover preparation activities, and best practices.

· Partner with team leads to optimize labor allocation, resource utilization, and execution efficiency.

· Coach teams to manage changeovers with the same discipline and urgency as production operations.

· Work closely with FSQ, operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to define cleaning requirements and reduce over cleaning.

· Develop and revise standard work instructions and task flows to improve changeover performance.

· Support risk assessments and ensure compliance with food safety, quality, and safety standards.

· Use Lean tools such as Value Stream Mapping, Process Mapping, 5 Whys, and Root Cause Analysis to identify and eliminate inefficiencies.

· Develop, execute, and evaluate changeover improvement experiments.

· Identify equipment, process, and tool enhancements that simplify cleaning and improve performance.

· Investigate and recommend capital improvement opportunities.

· Research internal and external best practices to improve changeover effectiveness.

· Apply creative problem-solving and innovative approaches to drive faster, safer, and more effective cleaning and changeover processes.