Manufacturing Performance Leader

Do you love snacks? Are you looking to join an ever evolving and rapidly growing team? PIM Brands might just be exactly what you’re looking for!

At PIM, We Make The Brands You Love®. Our portfolio of products, from Welch’s® Fruit Snacks to Sun-Maid® Chocolate Raisins and Sour Jacks® Sour Candies are enjoyed by millions of consumers every day. And when it comes to careers, we seek talented, results-oriented individuals who want to play a part in building amazing brands and products while working in a collaborative, dynamic, and fast-paced office environment.

At PIM, you can make an immediate and lasting contribution to help grow iconic snack and confectionery brands, no matter your area of expertise.

We are looking for a Manufacturing Performance Leader interested in a career with a top ranked and growing snack company, to join our Operations department at PIM’s Somerset New Jersey location. This position will report to our Senior Operations Manager
- Strategic Planning

Manufacturing Performance Leader – Somerset, NJ:
Provide Leadership, coaching, and performance guidance to Manufacturing Performance Engineers on Operational excellence best practices to improve safety, quality, cost, delivery, and morale of the plant. Work with plant leadership team to develop CI strategies, annual improvement plant and KPI targets, identify potential projects, ensure alignment with business priorities and financial benefit targets, create roadmaps for execution and sustain results.

Partner with Finance to validate project results, savings and productivity impacts. Lead plant wide CI initiatives to improve productivity programs, waste elimination, flow optimization and digital enablement using manufacturing improvement software such as Redzone. Work with SAP team to integrate communication between SAP with redzone productivity and reliability modules. Serve as the primary CI subject matter expert to functional leaders in production, quality, maintenance, supply chain, HR and EHS.

Build CI capabilities across all levels of the organization – from front line associates to senior leaders. Enable and coach leaders in behaviors that reinforce a continuous improvement mindset. Support change-management efforts to ensure CI initiatives are adopted, sustained, and integrated into daily operations. Coach on High Performance Work Systems (HPWS) role model, promote servant leadership and Gemba Walks. Maintain and improve plant CI dashboards and KPIs (Productivity, OEE, Labor efficiency, scrap, services, deliveries etc.)

and communicate regularly with the plant team. Lead deployment and sustain of tiered accountability systems through daily Management system, CI training program and Lean six sigma certification pathways. Govern plant CI maturity, ensuring consistent application of CI tools, frameworks and performance expectations across all departments. Support food safety and quality issues to Plant management and involve quality improvement activities, participate in CAPA, facilitate RCA on quality issues.

Work with project management and R&D to facilitate flawless execution of new products, production modification and internal control procedures. Partner with Maintenance and Utilities teams to evaluate equipment reliability, downtime drivers, preventive maintenance effectiveness, energy consumption, and operational readiness and develop standards on asset reliability through training on breakdown analysis and TPM methodologies. Follow PIM Brands GMP rules and monitor fellow employees for adherence to GMPs.

Will supervise at least one employee.

Must have a Master’s degree in Industrial and System Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or closely related field plus…