Continuous Improvement Leader-Gainesville, GA

Job description

A mutually rewarding experience.

Work. Realize your ambitions. And realize there's more to being in business than just making a profit. That's the Mars philosophy. And the opportunity we offer every one of our Associates. An opportunity to take what you do and make it mean more for you, for those around you and for the planet. What you get here is challenging, interesting work. You get the tools you need to do a great job and you get to have the best possible people on your side to help you do it. And at the same time as getting to find ways to do business better today than we did it yesterday and driving a great career, you also get to build a more enlightened business and drive sustainability.

Because it's never just about a single person, a single project or a single brand. It's about how you can grab everything that's within your reach here and use it to pursue mutual, long-term gain. It's about having ideas. And ideals. Being prepared to risk failure because the promise of success means we'll all be a little better off. It's that mix of integrity and ambition that makes Mars such a special place to work. And why working here is always about more than just a job.

About Mars, Incorporated

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN'S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

Mars Wrigley Confectionery is looking for a Continuous Improvement Leader for the Gainesville, GA site.

The Continuous Improvement Leader role leads the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) journey in the value stream in order to drive improvement initiatives through the identification and elimination of waste. The leader works with team members to drive overall efficiency, cost, quality and safety improvements as we leverage our lean manufacturing journey. The role as well establishes standards and provides coaching and feedback to fellow associates in order to build capability in the Factory Mars Operating System (FMOS) and process control for the various areas in the site.

Principal Accountabilities

·  Lead, teach, and coach associates primarily through implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
·  Delivers Value Leadership in Conversion (VLiC) savings projects in the value stream in order to support organizational profitability and growth matrixes
·  Drive TPM training and implementation via the identified courses, while capturing losses and deploying root cause analysis and improvement actions with teams
·  Develop and implement metrics and visual indicators aligned with the Focused Improvement pillar
·  Develops Value Stream Loss Analysis
·  Benchmark and integrates best practices into Value Stream
·  Leads process changes and communicates those changes to leaders in the department in conjunction with Engineering, Maintenance, and Project Mangement leadership
·  Evaluate future capacity needs and make proposals for capacity improvements
·  Maintain accurate catalogue of process, product and packaging capabilities relevant to leveraging existing platforms for growth

Qualifications

· Bachelor’s Degree in business, operations management, engineering or technical related field is required

· 5-7 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment with work experience in manufacturing production; 2 plus years of process improvement and/or continuous improvement roles in a TPM/Lean environment

· Lean/TPM toolkit application skills (value stream mapping, 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, Error proofing, SMED, team problem solving, etc.)

· Project management

· Production Processes

Preferred:

· Supply Chain Management Processes

· Stakeholder management

· Change management

· Business Financials & Performance

· Corporate Capital Management Processes

Must be capable of working various shifts and times to ensure success of all improvement projects.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

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