Manufacturing Excellence Specialist

Location: Fremont

As the world leader in nutrition, health and wellness for children from birth to preschool, Gerber Products Company is committed to creating a strong future. We joined the Nestlé Nutrition family in 2007, and have been a partner in parenthood ever since. Our Anything for Baby team works closely with experts to create products that enrich and establish healthy habits for children, and are good for the planet as well.

A career at Gerber provides meaningful opportunities to develop professionally, and nurture generations to come. Now is the time to define your future, and ours too.

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* POSITION SUMMARY:

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* The Factory Specialist ME actively helps improve factory performance by strengthening TPM routines, building capability across Local Leadership Team (LLT) and shop floor teams, improving data reliability, supporting loss elimination, and accelerating execution of key improvement initiatives.

** PRIMARY RESPONSIBILTIES:*
* Supports definition, alignment and implementation of the Local Leadership Team performance improvement plan/strategy

Co-develop Local Leadership improvement strategy that considers:

Factory Operational Master Plan

Loss Analysis / External Benchmarks

Gain alignment from the Local Leadership Team (LLT) / Key Stakeholders around the improvement plan and support roll out across the Production Department

Improvement plan to deliver the expected results that include:

Long-term TPM rollout plans

Other factory key enablers (Digital, CAPEX, MUV/cost savings, etc)

Key improvement projects

Key competency building activities

+ External support requirements

Support the execution of the improvement plan by:

+ Ensuring proper governance / routines at LLT levels to track execution progression and improvement sustainability

+ Spending time on shop floor to evaluate maturity progression and identify key opportunities

+ Providing guidance and feedback to LLT and aligning corrective actions to adjust improvement plan

Develop Critical Competence within Local Leadership Team (e.g. ability to identify opportunities to transform workplace, people, and behaviors to deliver results through GEMBA visits)

Partner with HR / Training to establish and evaluate robustness of function/pillar capability plan for LLT

Train and coach LLT / shop floor owners on systems health and competencies (e.g. Cleaning/Inspection, Centerline, Changeover) and escalate for external support as needed

Evaluates maturity of key systems and provides feedback to functional / pillar leads and guides conversations around steps to improve

Member of FI Pillar, which includes development competence building and health of FI systems and routines (Problem solving, Project & Stakeholder Management, Loss Intelligence, etc.)

Accountable for FI pillar and Industrial Performance related activities within the Local Leadership Team, including health and competency building of systems/routines such as labor utilization studies, data reliability, SAP BOM/Master Data, Planning Rate Reviews, Asset Intensity systems (DMO), Tagging/Prometheus, St 21-908, Capacity Utilization, etc

** REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM EDUCATION LEVEL:*
* High school diploma or equivalent (GED) required

Bachelor's degree in engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related field preferred. Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant work experience considered in lieu of a degree.

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* EXPERIENCE:

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* + 1-3 years of experience in Manufacturing

+ 1-3 years working with Factory Management & Leadership team, with success in supporting & developing cross-functional teams

+ 1-3 years with an active role on the implementation of Goal Alignment/TPM/Lean

+ Understanding of cultural change management, process improvement and business connections

+ Experience working with Line labor standards, Budget preparation/review, and line capability/speed studies

+ 1-3 years working & developing improvement projects, loss analysis, & strong experience in leading /applying problem solving tools

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* SKILLS:

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* Ability to collaborate well with others and work cross-functionally across shop floor, LLT, and factory leadership levels

Strong coaching and…