Continuous Improvement Lead

Giveandgo; Brampton; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Une entreprise de fabrication alimentaire en pleine croissance recherche un responsable des améliorations continues avec une expertise en Lean et Six Sigma. Vous jouerez un rôle clé dans l'optimisation des opérations tout en soutenant une culture de changement positif. Si vous avez une expérience pertinente et une passion pour l'amélioration des processus, nous aimerions vous voir rejoindre notre équipe dynamique.

Benefits

Opportunités de carrière et de développement

Environnement de travail inclusif et diversifié

Encouragement à partager de nouvelles idées et à expérimenter

Qualifications

• Minimum de 3 ans d'expérience en maintenance, ingénierie ou production dans un environnement de fabrication alimentaire.
• Expérience antérieure dans la conduite de projets CI utilisant 5S et autres méthodologies Lean.
• Capacité prouvée à mener un effort de transformation.

Responsibilities

• Soutenir la direction de l'usine dans l'optimisation des processus.
• Aider à mettre en œuvre des principes de gestion du changement.
• Atteindre les cibles de productivité de l'usine.

Skills

Analytical skills

Coaching

Leadership

Change management

Lean methodologies

Education

Six Sigma Certification

Job description

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 and 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, including two bite-brownies, Kimberley's Bakeshoppe, Mason St. Bakehouse, and The Worthy Crumb Pastry Co

It’s an exciting time to 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!

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.

What We Can Offer:

• It’s an exciting time to be part of the Give & Go team as we are growing rapidly and want you to become a part our growth and extraordinarily bright future.
• As we grow, we are committed to preserve the parts of our diversity & culture that is unique, people focused and are core to our success at every size. Our values of Quality, Direct Communication and Respect mean something.
• Learning and growth; we are working to create an environment where sharing new ideas , experimenting and learning from each other is strongly encouraged.

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply directly. Give and Go is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees regardless of race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences (for which a pardon has been granted), disability, marital or family status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require an accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail], citing "AODA" in the subject line, along with your request and contact information. While we appreciate all resume submissions, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.