Reporting relationships:
Reports to: Ground Beef Plant manager/ Engineering Manager
Direct reports: None
Position summary:
Ownership for performance of manufacturing processes in Ground Beef area
Significant duties and responsibilities:
- Overall ownership for the performance of manufacturing processes in area of responsibility
- Ensure that the equipment in the plant is capable of making product to specification at the rate to meet the production schedule
- Develop/ maintain standard work, standard operating procedures and programs for area of responsibility
- Lead process to define proactive maintenance requirements
- Support daily operational troubleshooting and problem solving
- Drive continuous improvement in area of responsibility, leading front line data collection and analysis activities and designing new production processes as necessary
- Work with Plant manager, Maintenance manager, Production manager and Production Supervisors to define desired future state and establish improvement priorities
- Ownership for transferring new products to manufacturing in area of responsibility
- Provide input on manufacturability in the new product development process
- Act as a representative and supporter of the company to those under supervision
- Provide feedback/coaching to associates on how to improve performance and increase skills/responsibility
- Provide/oversee training to associates
- Ensure a safe working environment for associates
Job Requirements/Qualifications:
Education and experience:
- Bachelor degree, engineering preferred
- >5 years engineering experience
- Cross-functional experience (operations, maintenance, materials, quality, etc…)
- Has demonstrated ability to implement and maintain manufacturing process improvements and controls Non-technical skills
- Good verbal communication skills
- Initiative and objectivity – willing to drive change
- Coaching and mentoring
- Understanding of the need for process discipline technical skills
- Strong problem solving skills
- Works well in a team setting - good listening skills, able to build rapport
- Open to new ideas and experimentation
- Practical, with a bias for action
- Enjoys spending time on the shop floor (as opposed to office)
- Strong customer service orientation towards production, passion for driving service levels, productivity and quality
- Detailed understanding of world class manufacturing processes
- Understanding of preventative maintenance requirements for production equipment
- Understanding of PLCs/automated production equipment)
- Understanding of operation and sanitation of production equipment
- Understanding of key regulatory requirements impacting plant and equipment (OSHA, FDA)
- Understand Lean principles, and know what “good” looks like in plant operations
Key Measurements:
- OEE/ Line up-time
- Productivity
- Quality
- OSHA incident rate
EOE/M/F/V/Disabled
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