Continuous Improvement Lead - 1st Shift - CI

Immediate Hiring for an experienced Continuous Improvement Lead at Glanbia Performance Nutrition!

Glanbia is a global nutrition company dedicated to providing better nutrition for every step of life’s journey. Using pure and clean ingredients such as milk, whey, and grains, Glanbia creates high‑quality nutritional ingredients and branded consumer products for customers and consumers worldwide.

Glanbia Performance Nutrition (GPN), headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Glanbia. Our brand portfolio includes Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, Think!, Nutramino, Body & Fit, Levl Up, Amazing Grass, and Slim Fast. We manufacture and market a full range of performance and lifestyle nutrition products sold across retail, online, gyms, and global markets.

GPN operates state-of-the-art facilities with more than 2,500 employees worldwide and is part of Glanbia plc, a global nutrition group with over 6,000 employees in 34 countries.

Compensation for roles at Glanbia varies depending on a wide range of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Illinois. This range may not be applicable to other locations. The hourly rate for Illinois based employees for this role is $27.50/hour.

Benefits Include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, FSA, HSA, Life & Disability Insurance, 19 Days Paid Time Off and 6% 401K match!

1st Shift: 6:00am-2:30pm M-F

The Continuous Improvement (CI) Leads, under the direction of the CI Manager, is to work with the Production, Maintenance and other departments to facilitate the implementation of the company’s Operation Excellence Program (OPEX) by using lean manufacturing principles and other tools to develop and implement processes designed to improve safety, quality, and efficiency.

The CI Leads will also be required to coordinate the training for OPEX programs and SOP development across all sites, and create a learning environment/culture of problem solving, inclusion and empowerment, responsibility and accountability.

• Ensure compliance with reporting standards to provide consistent measuring, monitoring, and improvement of performance.
• Coordinate a phased implementation of "Glanbia Performance Systems” throughout the GPN operations departments.
• Coordinate, train, educate, implement, execute on operations functions and improvement initiatives.
• Ensure proper application of the (Operation Excellence Program (OPEX) not sure what we call this) to proactively
• Improve the productivity and reliability of the operations.
• Perform cause analysis on productivity and reliability measurements to target areas for improvement.
• Responsible to deliver the cost savings target for the sites.
• Coordinate / train / educate / lead / facilitate teams to implement sustained improvements in order to increase the productivity and reliability of the processing operations, and assist in achieving the performance target for each facility
• Ensure the use of continuous improvement tools along with assisting in 6S project monitoring and mentoring.
• Ensure and maintain compliance with safety, quality, and professional standards within the food manufacturing facility.
• Sustained education and coaching of site personnel of all levels in Lean & Continuous improvement tools and principles.
• Develop, design, and document processes that help improve safety, quality, and efficiency.
• Works to identify areas of waste and identify ways to reduce/eliminate the waste.
• Work with maintenance, operations, quality when designing and overseeing installation of plant tools designed to make work easier, safer, and more efficient.
• Work with production team members to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the plant process.
• Responsible for benchmarking and best practice sharing across the organization.
• Diagnose the operations processes to identify opportunities for improvement
• Develop and present ROI projects

• Able to use DMAIC process to define Root cause
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