Continuous Improvement Leader - Plant MGT & Admin Salaried

Job Overview: 

This role will be responsible for driving process and capability improvement to ultimately deliver breakthrough results and achieve the plant/bakery goals, by working with cross-functional teams to optimize processes, create new processes, identify areas of improvement and drive the culture of CI within the organization through coaching. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support Plant Leadership through participation in Daily Operational Reviews, problem solving initiatives, data analysis, metric reporting, and effective loss elimination to improve plant reliability and waste reduction. 
• Help implement change management principles at all levels of the plant, through coaching and engaging employees. 
• Achieve plant productivity targets by developing projects, ideas and best practices linked to the plant Loss Analysis. 
• Validate new processes and optimize current processes (Ex: Changeovers, Sanitation, CIL, Center lining, etc.) 
• Implement and train different functions on new tools (ex: standard work, TPM tools, gap analysis, data analysis, loss analysis) and ensure employee capability is being built. 
• Play an important part in leading and supporting cross functional teams though the preparation, execution, and follow up of continuous improvement projects. 

Recipe for Success: 

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Maintenance, Engineering or Production role, ideally in an industrial Food Manufacturing environment. 
• Prior experience leading CI projects incorporating 5S, Kanban, Visual Management, and other Lean methodologies. 
• Six Sigma Certification a strong asset 
• Proven capability of leading a transformation effort, including change management, ensuring stakeholder engagement and robust communication 
• The ability to coach, inspire and work with cross functional managers, supervisors ,and employees
• Ability to influence all levels of the organization and make strategic decisions 
• The ability to work in the context of a corporate wide lean standardization program but also provide best practices that may be able to help other sites 
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills. 
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships 
• Strong leadership skills to motivate, and retain well-qualified individuals of diverse talents, interests, and cultural backgrounds. Must have the leadership presence to energize, drive and lead the teams, and to be able to influence with integrity at all levels of the organization and enable result through others.