Maufacturing Excellence Expert
Listed on 2025-11-25
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Manufacturing / Production
Production Manager, Manufacturing Engineer, Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma
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.
This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.
LOCATION:
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.
Support the Development of the Tactical Improvement and Execution Plan of the Factories in the Category:
- 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.
Support the development of Critical Competence of Factory Leadership Team:
Enable factories to drive and execute the Improvement Implementation Plan to improve and sustain the results.
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