Continuous Improvement Manager- IL6S

Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp. is a proud member of the Mondelēz family. We are a leading and growing North American manufacturer of baked goods for over 30 years. If you're looking for a company that will provide you with opportunities for career growth and development, while working with an energetic team with deeply ingrained values of respect, direct and open communication, quality and accountability, we’d love to have you join our team.

Our Consumer Brands: two-bite® brand, include two bite-brownies®, Kimberley's Bake shoppe™, Mason St. Bakehouse™ and The Worthy Crumb Pastry Co™ It’s an exciting time to be a part of the Give & Go team as we are growing rapidly and want you to become a part of our growth and extraordinarily bright future.

Responsible for overseeing the implementation of Integrated Lean 6 Sigma (IL6S) within the organization, working with cross-functional teams to identify areas for improvement, developing plans for change, establishing training curriculum to increase employee competency in IL6S and CI tools, and monitoring progress toward goals by setting KPIs to drive change. This position will be responsible for training, coaching, and assessing the “Model Factory” as well as future expansions.

• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and environmental standards while promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Assess personnel, develop training content, coach/mentor employees on Lean concepts within the organization, and create the proper documentation for the introduced program.
• Leads the IL6S program for the site(s) and ensures maintenance of the capabilities and improvement as new end-to-end capabilities are defined. Complete assessments of all Give & Go sites, addressing areas of improvement.
• Instrumental in achieving the plant conversion productivity target and identifying opportunities to close potential gaps. Governs the productivity process in the plant.
• Owns and governs the site wide Loss analysis and Loss elimination program to achieve business targets.
• Supports all pillars to achieve IL6S’ Zero Loss Journey (ZLJ) target
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for equipment performance, GE (Global Efficiency), and cost reduction.
• Develop Training, coaching and assessment plans, schedules, and budgets for projects to improve existing processes.
• Is responsible for site’s progress on IL6S phases and provides coaching to the sister sites IL6S team.
• Works with the Continuous Improvement (CI) Leaders and the core team to build capability and drive loss understanding and loss eradication.
• Initiates and supports training and induction programs in the plants by using existing tools from the IL6S toolbox. Conducts various trainings on IL6S topics.
• Coaches, mentors and supports the CI leaders.
• Bridge the gap between technical and operational teams, executing a range of CI solutions that move operations beyond current state to the next level of efficiency.
• Train and coach plant personnel on TPM principles, continuous improvement tools, and problem-solving techniques.
• Collaborate with maintenance and production teams to develop autonomous and planned maintenance systems
• Review company’s business for enhancing effectiveness and benchmark with Industry Best Practice.
• Assess processes and continuous improvement techniques for performance optimization.
• Offer technical expertise, as the SME on company statistics, Lean Methodology, tools, and practices.
• Develop and execute continuous improvement strategies aligned with business goals, using Lean, Six Sigma, and Kaizen methodologies.
• Develops an IL6S roadmap / master plan and Hoshin Kanri annually linked to the site CBN and provides assistance for the execution.
• Drive standardization and best practice sharing across departments and sites.
• Monitor and report progress of CI and TPM initiatives to senior leadership, highlighting ROI and performance improvements. Lead loss analysis and focused improvement projects to address chronic downtime and performance issues.

• Completion of college diploma in a related field
• Minimum 5 years in a business strategy, project management role
• Minimum of 10…