Senior Manager, Manufacturing Excellence

Senior Manager, Manufacturing Excellence

The Mark Anthony Group of Companies is one of North America's most diversified and successful private beverage companies focused on the alcohol beverage sector. Founded in 1972, the Company grew organically from a one-man wine importing business to a producer and distributor of fine wine, premium spirits, and ready-to-drink beverages, including White Claw Hard Seltzer.

The Sr. Manufacturing Excellence (Man Ex) Manager role is part of the site leadership team and is responsible for executing the Man Ex program framework deployment within the Brewery. This role will provide continuous improvement leadership and direction to implement the Man Ex values within the brewery and will be accountable for driving improvement in performance & productivity while building a sustainable Manufacturing Excellence program that delivers breakthrough performance improvement and builds capability & efficiency within the brewery team.

• Provides leadership and strategic thinking to implement a continuous improvement culture
• Drives the sustainability and adoption of Man Ex tools and practices throughout the brewery.
• Implements Best Practices / Standards and Man Ex roadmap focused on driving performance with structured and standardized ways of working (incl. formal root cause failure analysis, loss analysis, structured communication, etc.)
• Develops Man Ex capability and change agents working collaboratively with the site leadership team, People Operations and other functions to improve capability of all levels by defining and implementing a standards to deliver sustainable performance improvement.
• Assure adoption of Man Ex standards and best in class practices as defined, developed, and established within our Man Ex framework

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Operations, Management, or related field with minimum of 10 years of Technical / Production / Engineering / Maintenance Management in consumer product manufacturing
• Demonstrated success in manufacturing operations and continuous improvement
• Lean Six‑Sigma Certification

The Sr. Manufacturing Excellence Manager position is well‑suited for you if you have / are :

• Exhibits outstanding team building, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to influence indirectly
• Strong partner management, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Strategic planning and decision making, organizational change and tactical management of standards, business processes and internal / external partnerships to support performance goals.

• Sense of Urgency
  We value sense of urgency because we are a fast‑paced company in a fast‑paced industry
  You act as if there is no tomorrow and get it done today
• Authenticity
  We value authenticity because we need to stay real
  You are authentic, diplomatic, respectful, thoughtful and you always have the best intentions
• Simplicity
  We value simplicity; why use 50 words when you can use 5?
  You thrive in ambiguity, are comfortable with change and bring simplicity to complex situations or grey area
• Humility
  We value humility; there is no room for egos here
  You're not stubborn, you listen, take feedback / direction and respond quickly to changing direction. We are a team that supports each other
• Trust
  We value trust because unless we are both trusted and trusting, we will not succeed as a team
  You put trust in others and do your best to never let anyone down

At Mark Anthony, we believe every team member shares the responsibility of understanding how each of our roles and actions impact Quality, Food Safety, Safety and Continuous Improvement. This collective mindset is the cornerstone of our success as a leader in the consumer beverage space and requires us to mutually build and improve robust processes that guarantee unmatched customer satisfaction and safety.