Manufacturing Excellence Manager
CA - Irwindale
What if your job had a real impact?
By joining Bonduelle, the world leader in ready-to-use plant-based food, you are deciding to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, on others and on the planet. You will play an active part in our mission: "inspire the transition toward a plant-based diet to contribute to people's well-being and planet health". Bonduelle is a family-run company of 14,600 people which provides over 100 countries with vegetables.
Well established in the United States, our business unit includes 4 production facilities with more than 3,200 associates. We process fresh vegetables, salads and meal solutions with our own brands: Ready Pac Foods®, Bistro®, Ready Snax®, and Cool Cuts®.
Join us at Bonduelle to start an adventure where people come first and contribute to a better future through plant-based food!
Job responsibilities
The Manufacturing Excellence Manager partners with the Plant Director and is part of the Irwindale site leadership team. She/he drives and coordinates the Manufacturing Excellence program implementation, and identifies, analyzes, proposes, and implements continuous improvement and manufacturing excellence initiatives to optimize resource utilization such as materials, people, utilities, and equipment. The Manufacturing Excellence Manager works with other sites/ functional areas to drive change across Bonduelle's plants to deliver cost savings targets within the plant operating activities. She/he acts as a coach and mentor to managers, supervisors, and others to establish a zero-loss manufacturing culture and build Lean Sigma skills and capabilities so that everyone can identify and eliminate losses every hour, every shift, and every day. This position reports to the Senior Director of Manufacturing Excellence for North America.
Quick question for you - click here
This position will enable you to:
- Serve as a TPM leader, own at least two Pillars of Activity and provide subject-matter-expertise to influence outcomes
- Make a ground-floor impact as we roll out the pillars. You'll work on the master plan and gain alignment with the business
- Enjoy visibility across multiple plants while working from our largest facility in Irwindale
- Support fresh, healthy and convenient consumer products during a time of high growth
- Help drive cultural change as you make an immediate and long-term impact
What you will do:
- Own the development, implementation, and execution of the plant's Manufacturing Excellence Program and the Continuous Improvement Playbook Quick question for you - click here
- Use Six Sigma and Lean disciplines to drive continuous improvement projects, lead teams, coach, and mentor plant personnel
- Partner with the entire plant team to identify and prioritize losses
- Provide technical expertise and input in resolving bottlenecks to throughput; determine efficient methods for worker and equipment utilization
- Lead critical cost savings projects using project management tools
- Manage development and execution of the plant Productivity Deck (list of CI projects for the year)
- Report status and results of projects to stakeholders
- Develop management systems, establish work measurement programs and perform line workload observations to develop standards for labor and materials utilization
- Work hand-in-hand with functional department representatives to create task teams and lead brainstorming to identify areas of improvement; propose and implement continuous improvement initiatives
- Provide analysis, input, and support for the budget process
- Prepare and give formal presentations to management about projects' progress and direction
- Prepare cost/benefit analyses and present recommendations to management
- Ensure the benefits generated by the projects are properly measured and that the impact on total costs are validated by Finance
- Train and coach the plant leaders, project leaders, and others as needed on the Focused Improvement methodologies
- Build skills and capabilities on continuous improvement tools such as Zero Base Analysis, Process Mapping, 5-Why Analysis, Rapid Changeover, Line Balancing, Waste Walk, Kaizen, DMAIC, etc. across all functions of the plant
- Ensure standardization of CI methods across the plant
- Track and ensure the sustainability of improvements
- Report out the progress of cost savings execution
- Share best practices and adopts best practices from other plants
- Build collaborative relationships with business partners.
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Join Bonduelle on an incredible and exciting journey to have a positive impact on others and the planet!
Desired qualifications:
What you will need:
- A bachelor's degree in Industrial, Mechanical or Chemical Engineering, or a related field
- 2 to 5 years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment; experience in the Food and Beverage industry highly preferred
- TPM background and experience, including knowledge of at least two pillars; subject-matter expertise in at least one pillar highly preferred
- Change enabler
- Application of Continuous Improvement Tools (Lean, Six Sigma, TPM); Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification preferred Quick question for you - click here
- Cost accounting experience or financial acumen is a plus
- Must have very strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities
- Highly self-motivated; able to work with minimal supervision
- Strong PC skills, including the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Suite, and Minitab
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Experience leading teams and facilitating meetings
- Strong project management skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work well in a team environment and collaborate up and down the organization
- A proven track record of results with a bias for action
- A passion for learning and a craving to work in a fun culture
- Ability to travel up to 10%
Bonduelle Fresh Americas requires its employees to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19, where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation. If you are unable to provide proof of vaccination, you will be required to provide proof of a COVID test on a weekly basis.
What if your job had a real impact?
By joining Bonduelle, the world leader in ready-to-use plant-based food, you are deciding to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, on others and on the planet. You will play an active part in our mission: "inspire the transition toward a plant-based diet to contribute to people's well-being and planet health". Bonduelle is a family-run company of 14,600 people which provides over 100 countries with vegetables.
Well established in the United States, our business unit includes 4 production facilities with more than 3,200 associates. We process fresh vegetables, salads and meal solutions with our own brands: Ready Pac Foods®, Bistro®, Ready Snax®, and Cool Cuts®.
Join us at Bonduelle to start an adventure where people come first and contribute to a better future through plant-based food!
Job responsibilities
The Manufacturing Excellence Manager partners with the Plant Director and is part of the Irwindale site leadership team. She/he drives and coordinates the Manufacturing Excellence program implementation, and identifies, analyzes, proposes, and implements continuous improvement and manufacturing excellence initiatives to optimize resource utilization such as materials, people, utilities, and equipment. The Manufacturing Excellence Manager works with other sites/ functional areas to drive change across Bonduelle's plants to deliver cost savings targets within the plant operating activities. She/he acts as a coach and mentor to managers, supervisors, and others to establish a zero-loss manufacturing culture and build Lean Sigma skills and capabilities so that everyone can identify and eliminate losses every hour, every shift, and every day. This position reports to the Senior Director of Manufacturing Excellence for North America.
Quick question for you - click here
This position will enable you to:
- Serve as a TPM leader, own at least two Pillars of Activity and provide subject-matter-expertise to influence outcomes
- Make a ground-floor impact as we roll out the pillars. You'll work on the master plan and gain alignment with the business
- Enjoy visibility across multiple plants while working from our largest facility in Irwindale
- Support fresh, healthy and convenient consumer products during a time of high growth
- Help drive cultural change as you make an immediate and long-term impact
What you will do:
- Own the development, implementation, and execution of the plant's Manufacturing Excellence Program and the Continuous Improvement Playbook Quick question for you - click here
- Use Six Sigma and Lean disciplines to drive continuous improvement projects, lead teams, coach, and mentor plant personnel
- Partner with the entire plant team to identify and prioritize losses
- Provide technical expertise and input in resolving bottlenecks to throughput; determine efficient methods for worker and equipment utilization
- Lead critical cost savings projects using project management tools
- Manage development and execution of the plant Productivity Deck (list of CI projects for the year)
- Report status and results of projects to stakeholders
- Develop management systems, establish work measurement programs and perform line workload observations to develop standards for labor and materials utilization
- Work hand-in-hand with functional department representatives to create task teams and lead brainstorming to identify areas of improvement; propose and implement continuous improvement initiatives
- Provide analysis, input, and support for the budget process
- Prepare and give formal presentations to management about projects' progress and direction
- Prepare cost/benefit analyses and present recommendations to management
- Ensure the benefits generated by the projects are properly measured and that the impact on total costs are validated by Finance
- Train and coach the plant leaders, project leaders, and others as needed on the Focused Improvement methodologies
- Build skills and capabilities on continuous improvement tools such as Zero Base Analysis, Process Mapping, 5-Why Analysis, Rapid Changeover, Line Balancing, Waste Walk, Kaizen, DMAIC, etc. across all functions of the plant
- Ensure standardization of CI methods across the plant
- Track and ensure the sustainability of improvements
- Report out the progress of cost savings execution
- Share best practices and adopts best practices from other plants
- Build collaborative relationships with business partners.
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Join Bonduelle on an incredible and exciting journey to have a positive impact on others and the planet!
Desired qualifications:
What you will need:
- A bachelor's degree in Industrial, Mechanical or Chemical Engineering, or a related field
- 2 to 5 years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment; experience in the Food and Beverage industry highly preferred
- TPM background and experience, including knowledge of at least two pillars; subject-matter expertise in at least one pillar highly preferred
- Change enabler
- Application of Continuous Improvement Tools (Lean, Six Sigma, TPM); Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification preferred Quick question for you - click here
- Cost accounting experience or financial acumen is a plus
- Must have very strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities
- Highly self-motivated; able to work with minimal supervision
- Strong PC skills, including the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Suite, and Minitab
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Experience leading teams and facilitating meetings
- Strong project management skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work well in a team environment and collaborate up and down the organization
- A proven track record of results with a bias for action
- A passion for learning and a craving to work in a fun culture
- Ability to travel up to 10%
Bonduelle Fresh Americas requires its employees to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19, where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation. If you are unable to provide proof of vaccination, you will be required to provide proof of a COVID test on a weekly basis.
