TPM & Lean Manufacturing Excellence Lead

Socket.dev

Burlington (WI)

On-site

USD 75,000 - 101,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Healthcare coverage

Competitive total rewards package

Job summary

The Nestlé USA Factory Specialist ME role focuses on strengthening TPM routines, building leadership capability, improving data reliability, and accelerating key improvement initiatives across LLT and shop floor teams.

You will drive alignment, develop improvement strategies, and support governance to ensure sustainable results, with emphasis on Digital enablers, CAPEX, and loss elimination. Join a diverse, inclusive team focused on continuous improvement.

Qualifications

1-3 years of experience in Manufacturing.
1-3 years working with Factory Management & Leadership team, with success in supporting & developing cross-functional teams
1-3 years with an active role on the implementation of Goal Alignment/TPM/Lean
Understanding of cultural change management, process improvement and business connections
Experience working with Line labor standards, Budget preparation/review, and line capability/speed studies
1-3 years working & developing improvement projects, loss analysis, & strong experience in leading /applying problem solving tools

Responsibilities

Collaborate with LLT to define, align and implement the Local Leadership Team performance improvement plan/strategy
Co-develop Local Leadership improvement strategy that considers:
Factory Operational Master Plan
Loss Analysis / External Benchmarks
Gain alignment from the Local Leadership Team (LLT) / Key Stakeholders around the improvement plan and support roll out across the Production Department
Improvement plan to deliver the expected results that include:
Long-term TPM rollout plans
Other factory key enablers (Digital, CAPEX, MUV/cost savings, etc)
Key improvement projects
Key competency building activities
External support requirements
Support the execution of the improvement plan by:
Ensuring proper governance / routines at LLT levels to track execution progression and improvement sustainability
Spending time on shop floor to evaluate maturity progression and identify key opportunities
Providing guidance and feedback to LLT and aligning corrective actions to adjust improvement plan
Develop Critical Competence within Local Leadership Team (e.g. ability to identify opportunities to transform workplace, people, and behaviors to deliver results through GEMBA visits)
Partner with HR / Training to establish and evaluate robustness of function/pillar capability plan for LLT
Train and coach LLT / shop floor owners on systems health and competencies (e.g. Cleaning/Inspection, Centerline, Changeover) and escalate for external support as needed
Evaluates maturity of key systems and provides feedback to functional / pillar leads and guides conversations around steps to improve
Member of FI Pillar, which includes development competence building and health of FI systems and routines (Problem solving, Project & Stakeholder Management, Loss Intelligence, etc.)
Accountable for FI pillar and Industrial Performance related activities within the Local Leadership Team, including health and competency building of systems/routines such as labor utilization studies, data reliability, SAP BOM/Master Data, Planning Rate Reviews, Asset Intensity systems (DMO), Tagging/Prometheus, St 21-908, Capacity Utilization, etc