Manufacturing Excellence Leader

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
Job Number #163629 - Washington Court House, Ohio, United States

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
 

The Manufacturing Excellence  Leader has overall responsibility for developing and implementing continuous improvement initiatives, factory standards, and the factory operating system. The person in this role  is responsible for enhancing operational efficiency and maintaining high production quality,  will work closely with the Leadership team and key business unit resources and team members.
 

• Leading site-wide implementation of the Factory Performance & Reliability Standards.

• Participation in Factory Performance & Reliability assessments.

• Analyze current process streams across the functions and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Ensure that production metrics, continuous improvement initiatives and factory standards are effectively implemented and maintained.

• Report status and results of continuous improvement projects to management and employees.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Monitor and report weekly KPI’s as well as prepare reports for the end of the month: Quality Pays Report, AU report, CTI report, KPI report.

• Streamline productivity by applying continuous improvement tools such as changeover reduction, TPM and Visual Factory.

• Utilizing the input of the leadership team and operations personnel, develop a CI strategy and implementation plan.

• Design and manage continuous improvement initiatives.

• Review Project Hopper on a quarterly basis with the leadership team to check progress on CI activities to gauge effectiveness.

• Lead, guide, facilitate, and work with plant task forces, production/maintenance team members, vendors, etc. to implement and resolve identified and prioritized CI improvement projects.

• Manage and coordinate regrind inventory to help facilitate use and disposal.

• Manages the FP&R budget.

• Act as a resource for training plant personnel regarding FP&R standards.

• Understand and comply with Hill’s policies, safety standards, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and Food Safety. Identify and report Food Safety issues to management.

Required qualifications: