Maufacturing Excellence Expert
Listed on 2026-02-06
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Manufacturing / Production
Production Manager, Manufacturing Engineer, Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma, Operations Engineer
Overview
Foods you love. Brands you trust. And a career that empowers you to grow. At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives.
Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.
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Location and TravelLOCATION:
Solon, OH (Greater Cleveland Area)
TRAVEL: 50% - 75%
Position SummaryThe Manufacturing Excellence Expert (ME), as ME Category Support, ensures the development of Factory ME Manager, Production Manager and other key FLT roles in leveraging TPM/Autonomy and Industrial Performance (IP) methodologies to improve results in a continuous and sustainable manner. The role primarily works from the factory and provides guidance and support to define and execute the factory strategy and develop Autonomous Operational teams, as well as ensuring a regular update of accurate key manufacturing information and master data.
The Manufacturing Excellence Expert acts as the center of expertise, resource for competence development, and can act as an escalation role for the factory with other corporate functions. This role focuses as well on reapplication of best practices across the different factories.
- Enable the factories to translate the defined manufacturing strategy (at category level) into an Implementation plan considering the following:
- Business priorities & category ambition
- Loss analysis / External benchmarks
- 3 years planned progression of KPI's, People and workplace transformation (Factory Vision).
- Ability to leverage use of digital tools to help factory improve losses with applicable/relevant (Digital, Capex, Etc.)
- Evaluating maturity progression and identifying key opportunities together with the Factory ME Manager.
- Evaluating the strategies and execution of the autonomous workforce development plans.
- Coaching and supporting the development of Factory governance / routines to accelerate sustainable results.
- Provides hands on approach to Factory Leadership Team / Pillar Owners to accelerate improvements of results (coach by doing with factory).
- Support & Coach the Training & Learning Pillar to establish and evaluate robustness of function/pillar capability building plan
- Ensures an overall understanding of the different TPM/Autonomy methodologies (pillars) and IP productivity tools within the functions and how they integrate through the Improvement implementation plan
- Develop the Factory ME Manager on key system/tool competences based on the development plan to develop an autonomous operational team.
- Promote and support factory reapplication of best manufacturing practices, standards, and improvements across category/factories
- Lead/support as member Rapid Improvement Projects to accelerate the delivery of results in key areas of the factory
- Coach factory ME manager and FLT to identify key losses and root cause by applying LTA/IPA and problem-Solving methodologies
- Evaluate the health of systems, tools, and…
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