Continuous Improvement Leader

Give and Go Prepared Foods; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Diversity and inclusive culture

Continuous learning environment

Job summary

Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp. is seeking a Continuous Improvement Leader to drive process and capability improvements across our plant and bakery operations. You will coach cross-functional teams to deliver breakthrough results and align with our goals for productivity and quality.

The role focuses on Lean methods, change management, and sustaining gains through training and documentation, with emphasis on safety, food quality, and operational excellence across sites.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Maintenance, Engineering, or Production roles, preferably within an industrial Food Manufacturing environment.
• Prior experience leading continuous improvement projects utilizing Lean methodologies such as 5S, Kanban, and Visual Management.
• 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
• Experience working within company-wide Lean standardization programs while sharing best practices across multiple 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.

Responsibilities

• Drive the improvement of processes and systems by identifying opportunities, implementing continuous improvement programs, and delivering sustainable long-term operational benefits.
• Conduct assessments across Give & Go sites to identify improvement opportunities and implement solutions that enhance efficiency, productivity, and performance.
• Coach, train, and mentor employees on Lean concepts, continuous improvement methodologies, and best practices while developing supporting documentation and training materials.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, employee engagement, quality, and food safety throughout the organization.
• Develop project plans, schedules, and budgets to improve existing processes and support operational excellence initiatives.
• Lead and support the execution of capital projects while ensuring effective maintenance and optimization of facility assets.
• 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.

Skills

Lean methodologies

6 Sigma

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Process optimization

Change management

Coaching

Tools

TPM tools

Loss analysis tools

Standard work

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 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 Bakeshoppe™, 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!

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

• Drive the improvement of processes and systems by identifying opportunities, implementing continuous improvement programs, and delivering sustainable long-term operational benefits.
• Conduct assessments across Give & Go sites to identify improvement opportunities and implement solutions that enhance efficiency, productivity, and performance.
• Coach, train, and mentor employees on Lean concepts, continuous improvement methodologies, and best practices while developing supporting documentation and training materials.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, employee engagement, quality, and food safety throughout the organization.
• Develop project plans, schedules, and budgets to improve existing processes and support operational excellence initiatives.
• Lead and support the execution of capital projects while ensuring effective maintenance and optimization of facility assets.
• 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 5 years of experience in Maintenance, Engineering, or Production roles, preferably within an industrial Food Manufacturing environment.
• Prior experience leading continuous improvement projects utilizing Lean methodologies such as 5S, Kanban, and Visual Management.
• 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
• Experience working within company-wide Lean standardization programs while sharing best practices across multiple sites.
• 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.

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.