Process Improvement Leader
Posted on: 19 Mar 2021
Columbia, MO
Job Description
Job Description
The Process Improvement Leader (PIL) is responsible for maintaining & improving true efficiency (TE), reducing waste, unlocking production system capabilities, and maintaining operational stability. The PIL develops mastery of the processes they are assigned to and uses that mastery to deliver improved TE, quality, and yield.
Major Tasks, Accountabilities and Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible for loss analysis & TE improvement plan development, plan execution leadership, and results tracking
* Facilitate Lean Six Sigma (LSS) projects throughout the plant
* Responsible for rapid changeover activities including principles, target setting, and leading successful efforts reducing changeover time to achieve challenging objectives
* Lead analytical troubleshooting & problem solving
* Lead Simple Root Cause troubleshooting events with the front-line Employees
* Deliver effective change leadership - driving business changes while minimizing people impact
* Communicate and collaborate cross-functionally to assist teams to solve operational issues
* Motivate and recognize team members to achieve plan goals
* Lead AM Teams to keep floor equipment maintained and diagnosis defects prior to breakdowns
* Participate in the Plant 5-year plan construction and execution process
* Participate as a team member of the FI Team
* Understand the fundamental tools & methodologies of the following TPM pillars FI, AM, PM, EM
* Understand the CQV process Commissioning, Qualification, Verification process to support new equipment startups
* Apply reliability expertise to stabilize and improve the operation, driving variation down and seeking improved TE through the capital, procedural, and operational improvements in both planned and unplanned downtime areas
* Demonstrate good oral and written communication skills through leading meetings, facilitating meetings and preparing written plant communications
* Assist in plant initiatives and direct line supervision as needed
* Administer policies and procedures
* Regular and predictable attendance at the worksite
* Requires regular presence on the plant floor
* Flexibility to work off-shift and weekends if needed for project support/initiatives
* This role may require some travel (less than 5%)
Qualifications/Requirements
* Bachelors degree or equivalent experience required. Preferably in engineering, business, operations management, or similar field
* Lean Six Sigma Experience preferred, demonstrated by successful completion of continuous improvement projects
* 2 + years of manufacturing experience in a consumer products manufacturing operation preferred
* Self-motivated results-driven and action-oriented
* Ability to make independent and sound decisions
* Ability to conduct assessments and audits and evaluate to measure progress
* Effective oral and written communication skills
* Understanding of general Finance principles
Relocation Eligible: Not Eligible for Relocation
Job Type: Regular
PEPSICO
Purchase, NY
PepsiCo, Inc. operates as a food and beverage company worldwide. The company’s Frito-Lay North America segment offers branded dips; Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks; and Doritos tortilla, Fritos corn, Lay’s potato, Ruffles potato, and Tostitos tortilla chips. Its Quaker Foods North America segment provides cereals, rice, pasta, mixes and syrups, granola bars, grits, oat squares, oatmeal, rice cakes, simply granola, and side dishes under the Aunt Jemima, Cap’n crunch, Life, Quaker Chewy, Quaker, and Rice-A-Roni brands.
The company’s North America Beverages segment offers beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the Aquafina, Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Propel, Sierra Mist, and Tropicana brands; and ready-to-drink tea, coffee, and juices. Its Latin America segment provides snack foods under the Cheetos, Doritos, Emperador, Lay’s, Marias Gamesa, Rosquinhas Mabel, Ruffles, Sabritas, Saladitas, and Tostitos brands; Quaker-branded cereals and snacks; and beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the 7UP, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade, H2oh!, Manzanita Sol, Mirinda, Pepsi, Pepsi Black, and Toddy.
The company’s Europe Sub-Saharan Africa segment offers snack food under the Cheetos, Chipita, Doritos, Lay’s, Ruffles, and Walkers; Quaker-branded cereals and snacks; beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the 7UP, Diet Pepsi, Mirinda, Pepsi, Pepsi Max, and Tropicana; ready-to-drink tea products; and dairy products under the Agusha, Chudo, and Domik v Derevne brands. Its Asia, Middle East and North Africa segment provides snack foods under the Cheetos, Chipsy, Doritos, Kurkure, and Lay’s brands; cereals and snacks under the Quaker brand; beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the 7UP, Aquafina, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Sting, and Tropicana brands; and ready-to-drink tea products. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.
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IndustryBeverages
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No. of Employees267,000
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