Line Manager

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way.

We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a talented, driven individual to join our Nestlé Health Science business within our Factory as a Line Manager, reporting directly to the Production Manager. This role is a key role for the factory; responsible for building the improvement strategy while having full accountability and autonomy for driving their area to World Class performance levels in Safety, Quality, Cost and Service.

In order to achieve this, the Line Manager will lead the TPM implementation within their area and passionately focus on building individual & team competences to execute critical standards with excellence, building team autonomy and a continuous improvement mind-set.

• Leading development of the team to provide appropriate skills and flexibility of workforce to suit current and future needs aligned to business goals, using tools such as coaching, competence matrices and development plans.
• Coaching, training and assessing to ensure the right competence and capability of the team
• Ensure the rigorous application of standards and methodologies, driving autonomy and accountability at the lowest level.
• Ensure the quality of the data in the systems (consumptions, Nominal Speed, and Stoppages classification)
• Analyze safety, quality, stoppages and material losses, prioritize and define an improvement plan with different stakeholders.
• Working with the Line Performance Management team and Engineering to coordinate and prioritize resource to achieve production and maintenance plans with quality execution of TPM and 7 Key Standard Routines.
• Leading and coaching operational reviews to drive and embed a continuous improvement mind-set to support the achievement of the Operational Master Plan.
• Creating strategies and priorities for the lines to deliver the drivers for the OMP in all key areas – SHE, Quality, Supply Chain, Operations and Cost.
• Support Production Supervisor on the capabilities and succession plan for operator and line leads.
• Lead improvement projects – OSL – Operations Start-Up Lead for capital investments
• Manage trials
• Back-up of the Production Manager
• Achieve a "zero injury, defect, waste" mindset & promote behaviours that have a positive impact on Safety Health Environment & Quality. Promote and manage risk awareness by engaging and coaching the teams
• Contribute to the smooth operation of factory through effective employee and industrial relations management

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field. MBA or Master's degree is a plus.
• Minimum 3+ years previous experience in a leadership role, ideally, in a food/pharma industry. Managerial experience is a plus.
• Minimum 3+ years Project management experience
• Displaying strong initiative and drive for…