Manager, Continuous Improvement Jobs

Winland Foods is a leading private label food manufacturer of pasta, dry dinners, condiments, syrups, and more with nearly 3,000 employees operating out of 14 production facilities in US, Canada, and Italy. As a ‘newly’ established company, we are creating the building blocks for an innovative and agile organization that is purpose driven - delivering high quality food to our customers and communities. We foster an environment that encourages all employees to be heard, values the contributions and ideas of others. By joining Winland Foods, you become a part of a new team that values passion, collaboration, and strives to prosper with our customers.
Employee Type:
Full time
Location:
GA Atlanta
Job Type:
Supply Chain Continuous Improvement
Job Posting Title:
Manager, Continuous Improvement
:
The Continuous Improvement Manager brings to life the CI vision cascaded through each business unit. The CI Manager assists in the strategic planning and implements the strategy to support overall performance improvement objectives at the Atlanta, GA Plant location. Coaches and Mentors employees on lean methodology, tools, root-cause analysis, and waste reduction to achieve sustainable and continued improvements in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, cost, and growth. Coordinates training and development of all team members.
Responsibilities:

• Leads focused efforts aimed at breakthrough and incremental improvements in process, department and/or line-specific opportunities that meet and exceed plant operational performance metrics.
• Provide appropriate documentation and project update communication to Operations leadership.
• Monitor data and metric trends to identify areas of waste and prioritize the development and implementation of solutions.
• Effectively collaborates with all departments and individuals affected by CI projects.
• Leverages data and observational analysis to identify improvement opportunities and works closely with technical resources to help drive efficiencies and identify best practices.
• All other duties as assigned.
• Leads, identifies and defines the scope of Continuous Improvement projects and activities.
• Teaches and models root cause analysis and structured problem-solving to eliminate inefficiencies, recurring issues and waste of all types. Viewed as an expert in these areas.
• Leads the Continuous Improvement process (e.g. mindsets, practices and culture), working with staff and leadership to develop, implement and sustain a CI program based upon Lean principles that support meeting plant performance targets and financial goals.
• Primary owner in leading and/or coordinating Continuous Improvement activities.
• Sits on the site’s Steering Team as the key strategic resource to organize and execute the business’ improvement activities.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for Treehouse’s Management Operating Structure.
• Coaches, guides and/or leads cross-functional teams to achieve resolution of assigned projects.
• Participates in Lean events with other CI resources to apply CI methodologies and promote skill transfer.

Qualifications:

• Convey high level of optimism while setting aggressive targets to teams and finding ways to achieve them.
• Deep understanding of Lean Manufacturing/Continuous Improvement methodologies and ability to teach and model them.
• Speaks candidly and provides constructive feedback in a professional manner.
• Prior experience in a food manufacturing environment highly preferred
• Establish clear directions, sets stretching objectives. Lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner and brings out the best in people through leveraging their strengths.
• Strong analytical capabilities related to business, including the interpretation of financial summaries and identifying the drivers of performance results.
• Organizes and manages projects; interacts, supports, facilitates and leads multi-functional work teams; leads teams to consensus; strong negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of SAP is preferred.
• Demonstrates a passion for safety. Able to develop and maintain a respectful and safe work environment.
• Previous management experience is preferred.
• Solves highly complex problems and prioritizes actions in a timely manner. Probes all sources for answers and can quickly sense what will help resolve issues.
• Efficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) is required
• Able to build strong relationships across the business unit to partner with, support and fosters change.
• Must be mobile and able to take on broader assignments for additional development opportunities within our BU and across the organization as a whole.
• Experience leading cost-savings projects of high value and complexity from ideation and chartering through successful completion and sustainment.
• Bachelor’s Degree and three or more years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Previous supervisory experience is required.
• Ability to lead through influence, mentorship and coaching to get results through others.
• Excellent communication written/verbal is required
• Involvement in the formulation of long-term improvement strategies to deliver annual business plans.
• Communicates a compelling vision and inspires strong morale and spirit within team.

Winland Foods believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Winland Foods is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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