What are the responsibilities and job description for the Continuous Improvement Specialist position at Capstone Search Advisors?
Capstone Search Advisors are currently searching for a Continuous Improvement Manager for an industry leading food manufacturing company.
Location: Garland, Texas
Title: Continuous Improvement Manager
Compensation: $ 80,000 - $ 100,000
Shift: First Shift
Benefits: Full time benefits, medical, dental, vision, paid holidays, PTO 401k w/match
Position Summary:
Develop and successfully execute performance and reliability improvements across the facility. Serving as a key technical and operations resource, deliver improved, sustainable line performance through enhancing production and maintenance operating systems and margin improvement/cost savings on operational projects.
- Manage the continuous improvement program and all operational and workplace organization standards
- Utilize TPM and lean flow methodologies to optimize asset and employee effectiveness along with workplace organization to ensure ideal production rates, parameters, and formulas are established and met
- Develop and manage reliability improvement plans for employees and assets
- Lead and facilitate mindset training programs to support reliability improvement plans
- Lead testing and startup for packaging materials and equipment; assist startup lead for all new projects
- Provide technical operations support for capital projects to ensure effective early management/vertical startup
- Manage new product commercialization initiatives for operations
- Serve as technical liaison between functional groups including production/maintenance employees, leadership, marketing, sales, R&D, and other facilities
- Lead cost improvement efforts, ensuring annual cost target achievement is met, specifically focused on manufacturing/operations
- Support plant leadership in annual operating and capital plan development
- Facilitate training to leadership and associates for key problem solving/continuous improvement methodology tools
- Assist team in creating and sustaining an environment of continuous improvement and fact-based decision making
- Support food safety program, quality standards, and legality of manufactured products
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in industrial or mechanical engineering, business, or finance or equivalent experience
- 5 years of experience in manufacturing or engineering, preferably with food packaging (film, corrugate, etc.), and related manufacturing systems/processes
- Ability to lead and support multiple projects and strategic initiatives concurrently and independently
- Complex problem solving and critical thinking skills, leveraging process-driven and root cause mentality
Salary : $80,000 - $100,000
