Position Site Project Leader

Site Initiative Execution Leader

At Danone, manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demand is a key driver for our plant teams. We are currently looking to hire a Site Initiative Execution Leader based in Fort Worth!

As a key member of our team, you will play an important role in driving our mission forward. The following responsibilities outline the core expectations and contributions for this position:

• Own and maintain the Site Initiatives Master Plan (IMP), ensuring alignment with plant priorities and resource capacity
• Lead integrated master planning to enable effective site resource planning and initiative execution
• Ensure accurate project prefeasibility and feasibility assessments during the project definition phase, with a strong focus on PQCDSM accuracy
• Lead successful execution of product and packaging innovations at the site, including vertical start-ups
• Own factory supply chain readiness for initiatives, including master data, materials supply, planning, first factory production, and remnant depletion
• Own and validate factory initiative COGS assumptions and financial impacts
• Own or participate in the evaluation and mitigation of manage Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Mobility and Nature (SQCDMN) risks at the factory level for all initiatives
• Partner closely with factory and project teams to ensure strong quality of execution and achievement of SQCDMN performance indicators
• Own Inno Pro Gate deliverables for the factory scope of initiatives
• Ensure initiatives meet defined objectives for safety, quality, delivery, cost, and sustainability
• Serve as the site single point of contact (SPOC) for all innovation, renovation, productivity, and sourcing projects, ensuring strong cross-functional alignment across Operations, R&I, Quality, Finance, C&P, and iPRO.
• Provide factory technical and industrial feasibility leadership from project definition through execution, ensuring alignment between product specifications and site capabilities.
• Own factory resource planning and governance, including CAPEX/OPEX assessment, homologation, and stage-gate execution for all site initiatives.
• Lead factory execution of innovation, productivity, and quality projects, integrating engineering and operations resources to deliver successful trials, start-ups, and scale-ups.
• Drive industrial testing, validation, and launch excellence, including scheduling and optimization of trials, start-ups, artwork, and specification validations, with clear reporting to project teams.
• Ensure performance monitoring and continuous improvement, leading post-launch reviews, post-mortem analyses, and identification of new innovation and productivity opportunities.

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs and ladders, balance; stoop, kneel or crouch; talk and hear. Occasionally required to lift and / or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• Work is performed in a manufacturing environment with exposure to moderate noise and temperature variations.
• Work schedules could include nights, weekends and/or holidays to provide the ability to support a 24/7 manufacturing environment as business needs dictate.

Ensure adherence to plant standards and procedures (including but not limited to GMP, AIB, FDA, IWS, Quality, Safety, Finance, ISO, HOPE, Danone Behaviors, Daily Direction Setting, Driving OE). As a fundamental piece of the organization, your responsibility is to participate and own the implementation and deployment of IWS system and its pillars (Leadership foundation, Daily Direction Setting, Driving OE;
Autonomous Maintenance; planned Maintenance;
Focused Improvement;
Education and Training; Environmental, Health and Safety; Quality; Organization; Supply Network; Early Equipment Management) with the objective of owning your space, owning your performance (Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Mobilization, Nature) and owning your continuous improvement.

Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options.

The ideal candidate will bring a combination of education, experience, and skills that enable them to…