Manufacturing Excellence Manager

About the role

The Manufacturing Excellence Manager is responsible for the development, alignment, and execution of a factory-wide performance improvement strategy. The role acts as the center of expertise and key driver for Nestle Continuous Excellence (NCE) and Industrial Performance activities in the factory.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for development, competence building, and health of Industrial Performance systems & routines, including Labor utilization studies
• Accountable for data reliability, SAP BOM/Master Data, planning rate reviews, Asset Intensity and utilization systems, Nestle Standards for Manufacturing Performance
• Led development of Strategic plan (OMP) and improvement strategy in the Factory
• Ensures the right cascading of priorities and measures from the Market to the factory
• Defines and embeds NCE projects and initiatives into the Factory objectives and align Factory Leadership Team towards the plan
• Establishes and drives effective Factory governance to ensure that NCE implementation contributes to delivering business results
• Supports Factory competency building plan that ensures NCE is developing autonomy at all levels of the organization.
• Stewards, trains, supports and coaches the Factory Leadership Team and Local Leadership Teams in Manufacturing competencies (e.g. GA, FI, TPM 7+4) behaviors and applicable manufacturing standards
• Develops competency of Local Leadership Teams and Factory Leadership Teams, supporting them to apply methodologies to improve and sustain results (e.g. all NCE methodologies, Value Added Activities, Workload studies, etc.)
• Conducts, sponsors and/or coaches specific projects to support results improvement around priorities established by the Factory
• Understands and ensures together with Factory Cost Controller an overall competence of Costing Standards for Manufacturing
• Collaborates with Market Manufacturing Excellence Director to drive NCE

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in food science, Engineering or related degree required.
• Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt certification desired
• 8+ years in a manufacturing or continuous improvement environment, desired.
• Food, CPG or Pharmaceutical experience preferred which includes:
• 2+ Years of direct production/maintenance floor experience
• 2+ Years working with factory management/leadership team
• 2+ Years of project management, loss intelligence, & advanced problem solving
• 2+ Years working in Goal Alignment/TPM/Lean implementation

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of digital tools including Power BI, SAP Master Data, MES and other visualization tools/data analytics experience preferred
• Strong leadership in cultural change management & managing multiple complex priorities and business connections
• Ability to understand/learn new manufacturing processes and quickly identify their challenges and areas of opportunity
• Experience in developing Line labor standards, Budget preparation/review, and line capability/speed studies
• Advanced knowledge of TPM
• Strong Problem-Solving capabilities
• Demonstrated track record of leading changes in difficult environment
• Demonstrated track record and competence on TPM and Lean and/or World Class Manufacturing (WCM) methodologies and implementation.
• Cultural change agent working with hourly operators and senior stakeholders
• Project Management capabilities