Continuous Improvement Manager: Lead Operational Excellence

Perdue Farms, Inc.; Washington (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Perdue Farms Inc. seeks a Continuous Improvement Manager 2 to lead improvement across the business, championing the Continuous Improvement Model and coaching teams to deliver measurable results.

You will partner with operations to eradicate losses and implement sustainable process enhancements, emphasizing People-Process-Data and data-based decisions. The role requires strategic thinking, strong leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to drive change, develop teams, and elevate

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent related work experience.
• Degrees in Engineering, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Operations, Logistics, Food Science, Animal Science, and/or Supply Chain preferred by all majors will be considered.
• Must have a minimum of 5 to 7 years related work experience.
• Advanced Project Management skills.
• Ability to travel 10% to support other CI Initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of LEAN principles, Problem Solving Tools (RCA, DMAIC), Six Sigma, TQM, TPM and SPC.
• Combination of business, interpersonal, technical, and analytical skills.
• Strong Leadership skills in leading teams of people.
• Self-starter mentality and motivated by challenge.
• Strong sense of teamwork with high level of individual contribution.
• Ability to learn new concepts, combine with common sense, and effectively apply to problem solving.
• Strong communication, organization, and presentation skills.
• Able to communicate and work with teams at all organizational levels from Senior management to shop floor.
• Willingness to promote and drive change.
• Proficiency in O365 Tools (Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel).
• Ability to support all shifts (1st, 2nd, & 3rd) on Continuous Improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Become a business partner with operations & functional management, to identify opportunities, utilizing systematic problem solving (including Root Cause Analysis, Kaizens, Loss Analysis and DMAIC methodology) to eradicate losses while focusing on People-Process-Data to obtain measurable and sustainable results.
• Utilizes Lean, Six Sigma techniques and CI tools to lead the organization in data-based decision making and driving actions to generate measurable improvement driving behavioral change across site through CI tools, methodology and coaching.
• Manage Site Improvement Projects through project plan development, results tracking and leading and coaching site leaders through project execution process.
• Delivers effective Continuous Improvement training courses (LEAN Training, Belt training, etc.) and programs to help increase team capability and awareness of the Continuous Improvement tools. The training should be tailored to meet organizational needs and priorities.
• Implement, support and coach site Manufacturing Operating System (MOS), including Tier meetings, KPI development and tracking and standard work.
• Co-facilitates Kaizen and 90-Day Improvement events in which we effectively build and lead focused and empowered teams to address systemic problems.
• Develops and implements a plant communication plan for process improvement efforts.
• Serve as subject matter expert for CI Methodology, CI Tools and the implementation of Daily Process controls to drive operational improvements.
• Timely communication, tracking and reporting on project progress, results, and deviations from the project plan with key stakeholders.
• Organize regular meetings with key stakeholders to share project status updates, define next steps to raise the performance bar, review plans to deliver sustainable SQDCSM improvements.
• Additional duties as assigned by management.

Skills

Lean principles

Six Sigma

DMAIC

RCA

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Office 365

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Power Apps/BI

Minitab

Job description

Perdue Farms Inc. seeks a Continuous Improvement Manager 2 to lead improvement across the business, championing the Continuous Improvement Model and coaching teams to deliver measurable results.

You will partner with operations to eradicate losses and implement sustainable process enhancements, emphasizing People-Process-Data and data-based decisions. The role requires strategic thinking, strong leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to drive change, develop teams, and elevate