Manufacturing Excellence Manager

Nestlé SA; Southwest; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food and beverage industry is seeking a Manufacturing Excellence Manager for their Jurong Factory. This role focuses on driving continuous improvements and overseeing initiatives that enhance productivity and cost-effectiveness while aligning with Nestlé's quality standards. The successful candidate will need a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 5-7 years of experience, along with proven leadership skills.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant working experience in a similar capacity.
• Intermediate knowledge of TPM or similar continuous improvement methodology.
• Demonstrated capability to lead a group of people.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and drive factory initiatives for sustainable improvements.
• Coach and support pillar members, ensuring integration of pillars.
• Monitor and validate improvement initiatives' results.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving techniques

Stakeholder management

Change management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Job description

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

We are looking for a Manufacturing Excellence Manager to be a guardian of the improvement process for Jurong Factory. In this role, you will coordinate and drive factory initiatives to develop, implement and maintain sustainable improvements, cost reduction, and competitiveness whilst maintaining Nestle Quality Standards. You will ensure and optimize the use of resources through the identification and elimination of losses. You will serve as a center of expertise for dissemination, guidance, and implementation of focused improvement methodologies in the market. Also, as the Focused Improvement (FI) Pillar Leader, you will drive the implementation of the FI Pillar of TPM methodology at the factory. You will coach and support pillar members, integrate and support the rest of the pillars and local committee. You will serve as Factory Goal Alignment (GA) Pillar specialist and be responsible for training, coaching, and assessing people within the factory on GA practices.

A day in the life of…

1. Actively support the teams in the TPM (Total Performance Management / Total Productive Maintenance) activities on the shopfloor.
2. Coach the pillar leaders and members.
3. Promote and support cross-fertilisation of ideas, knowledge, standards, and improvements.
4. Coordinate the support from external consultants if applicable.
5. Motivate & empower people through positive attitude and stimulate change in traditional mindset.
6. Integration of Pillars.
7. Coordination with master pillar leaders and TPM coordinators.
8. Consistent measuring, monitoring, and improvement of factory standards whilst safeguarding assets.
9. Ensure the implementation of the Best Practices as defined in the HPF BiC Repositories and Globe Business Excellence.
10. Optimise the use of systems to maintain and improve competitiveness.
11. Lead projects for improvements - Drive factory initiatives to develop, implement, and maintain sustainable improvements, cost reduction, and competitiveness whilst maintaining Nestle Quality Standards.
12. Report & validate project results - Monitor the implementation of improvement initiatives within the factory, ensure that benefits are properly measured and that the impact on production costs is clearly identified. Communicate results to stakeholders.
13. Provide training & methodological support - Serve as a mentor to leaders of focused improvement projects in the factory. Conduct and implement continuous improvement tools within the factory. Coordinate CI team activities (training, team formation, monitoring of progress, information sharing).
14. Provide technical support for production including using industrial performance tools to troubleshoot and debottleneck process flow related to equipment. Conduct focused improvement projects or coordinate and lead multi-functional teams to improve.
15. Provide training, coaching, and assessment for the factory and the local committees on GA practices.
16. Implement safety and environment practices in the workplace.

What will make you successful

1. Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related fields
2. 5 to 7 years of relevant working experience in a similar capacity
3. Demonstrated capability to lead a group of people
4. Intermediate knowledge of TPM or similar continuous improvement methodology
5. Good understanding of the business needs
6. Exposure to implementing continuous improvement and employee involvement techniques. Implementation experience of TPM
7. Problem solving techniques
8. Change management
9. Good stakeholder management and influencing skills