Operations Excellence and Continuous Improvement Manager

The J.M. Smucker Company; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The J.M. Smucker Company is seeking an Operations Excellence and Continuous Improvement Manager in Scottsville, KY.

You will coach site pillar leaders and the plant organization to apply high-performance tools, drive loss elimination, and ensure data-driven decisions across teams to deliver the site plan. The role emphasizes training, facilitating continuous improvement progress, and guiding safety, quality and reliability initiatives while supporting the plant masterplan and transformation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience using continuous improvement tools to deliver business results.
• Experience in training facilitation and leading groups.
• Ability to influence others and lead by example.
• People management experience.
• Decisive and strategic in decision making.

Responsibilities

• Ensure site adherence to master planning cadence.
• Review and drive site loss analysis action plans.
• Lead internal and external continuous improvement assessments for the site.
• Coach pillar leaders and department managers to connect plans to the site plan.
• Manage day-to-day activities of Quality and Safety project engineers.
• Coach pillar owners to build high-performance capability at all levels.

Skills

Continuous improvement

Leadership

Training facilitation

People management

Decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Operations Excellence and Continuous Improvement Manager

The Plant Operations Excellence and Continuous Improvement Manager is responsible for coaching site pillar leaders and the entire plant organization towards the successful utilization of high performance organizational and continuous improvement tools and adherence. These tools ensure the organization is designed to deliver the site plan through loss elimination and the engagement of all employees. Drives consistent and effective use of pillar tools effective communication across teams and reapplication of company best practices and standards. Resident expert on coaching and developing tools and practices. This role will be considered for opportunities to progress along the operations career path.

Location: Scottsville KY

Report To: Plant Manager

Work Arrangements: 100% on-site

In this role you will:

• Ensure site adherence to master planning cadence
• Ensure completion and / or review of site loss analysis action plan
• Ensure completion of organization performance modeling or health assessment
• Lead internal and external continuous improvement assessments for the site
• Coach pillar leaders and department managers to build and execute plans that connects to site plan
• Day to day management of Quality and Safety project engineers
• Coach pillar owners to build high performance capability at all levels of the organization and ensure standards
• Help to drive strong systems in safety quality and reliability
• Ensure rapid lead line reapplication across the site
• Function as (WPI) Work Process Improvement pillar owner
• Support the results management process at all levels of the organization
• Provide coaching on how to determine appropriate metric and targets at all levels of the organization
• Provide coaching to pillar leads and department managers on the gap analysis process and triggers for response
• Supports the plant masterplan and transformation efforts
• Ensure data driven decision making occurs at all levels of the organization

The Right Role for You

We are bold kind strive to do the right thing we play to win and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical emotional and financial needs.

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Operations experience using continuous improvement and high-performance organizational tools to deliver business results
• Prior success in improving and sustaining results
• Experience in training facilitation and leading groups
• Ability to lead by influencing others
• People management experience
• Decisive proactive and strategic in decision making

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

• Food manufacturing experience

Learn more about working at Smucker:

• Our Total Rewards Benefits Program
• Our Thriving Together Philosophy
• Supporting All Impacted by Our Business
• Our Continued Progress on Inclusion Diversity and Equity

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