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It focuses on meeting customer expectation through the Continuous Improvement of the operational processes and taking a world class manufacturing approach, this plays a key part in maintaining and improving the standard in our Lean framework.
The Continuous Improvement Manager is responsible for ensuring productivity goals for current year are met through coordinating existing projects, analyzing current practices, delivering improvements, and tracking cost management activities. The Continuous Improvement Manager will be responsible for developing a healthy pipeline of productivity projects having 5 specialists reporting into them as well as cadence responsibility for corrective A3 projects.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Cost Management and Process Improvement
- Analyze financial and performance reports to identify, recommend and implement methods to reduce waste, inefficiencies and non-value added activities.
- Analyze and understand principles of operations for processing and packaging system (process/equipment/methods) capabilities in order to identify, develop, and execute improvement opportunities.
- Demonstrate exemplary problem-solving skills; coach and lead others to execute problem solving using lean methodologies. Lead and facilitate Root Cause Analysis (RCA), SIPOC and DMAIC problem solving projects. Green Belt accreditation required – training will be supported.
- Own the LSS project agenda with regular project reviews for progress vs productivity task and ensure that corrective A3s are on track & reviewed through the weekly QCDM format.
- Facilitate brainstorming meetings with Production work teams and functional team members to identify cost improvement projects. Then, coordinate the development of execution timelines and action step accountabilities (RACI charts).
EHS - Establish and/or maintain departmental programs which assure full compliance with pre-established safety standards
- Communication - demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills through leading meetings, facilitating meetings and preparing written plant communications. Utilise Microsoft Office products to support delivery of excellent communication
- Project and Departmental Financial Results and Analysis.
- Support annual budget for the Site for productivity.
- Develop long range plans, goals and strategies in order to ensure MOH productivity of the site.
- Coordinate and complete cost studies, work with the project team to identify capital requirements.
- Ensure financial commitments and targets are achieved or exceeded in the areas of operating income and invested capital to ultimately contribute to the net profitability of the department. This is achieved through management of capital plans, cost improvement goals, variable costs, fixed costs (including maintenance), quality, high performance work system development, and other miscellaneous areas.
Departmental Capital Planning
- Assist in the development of department capital plans to support the delivery of business objectives
- Manage/lead operational projects via Project Plans.
- Training, Coaching and Mentoring
- Educate department employees on KPI's (key performance indicators) and other business information. Coach and train your work team on the costs of the operation and how their actions can impact these costs. These costs will include labour, yield, waste and fixed budgets.
- Assist in plant initiatives and direct line supervision as needed.
- Coach and lead teams within the assigned area of responsibilities.
- Responsible for IPS, Standard Settings and top losses for assigned area. Identifying opportunities and working with production teams and site teams to resolve issues using Focused Improvement Tools.
- Seeking / using best practice within PepsiCo, by owning the Starfleet agenda for the site
- Developing specialist pipeline talent
Review technical capability of operators and work with training manager to identify support training programs required.
Qualifications:
Sustain a culture of Continuous Improvement.
- Microsoft Office.
- Problem Solving.
- Lean Six Sigma / DMAIC (Green Belt).
- Financial and Accounting Skills.
- Financial Analysis.
- Project Management Skills.
- Long-Range Operations Planning.
- Human Relations Skills.
- Communication Skills.
- AIB.