Continuous Improvement Team Leader

Continuous Improvement Team Leader

  

Glanbia – Southwest Cheese

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey. Southwest Cheese is the world’s largest manufacturer of cheese/whey products and is located in Clovis, New Mexico.  It is a joint venture between Glanbia and The Greater Southwest Agency and provides ample opportunity for career growth and experience in a fast-paced, high-performing enterprise.

The Opportunity 

Facilitate the implementation and education of the Glanbia Performance System to ensure that all plant employees have the tools and knowledge to improve and sustain a zero loss work culture that drives out injuries and ensures products are safe and meet quality specifications.  Provide leadership to engage the plant in successfully progressing through the GPS phases and ensure delivery of our annual GPS savings goals.  Ensure GPS is fully integrated across organization to create “World Class” facilities. This permanent position will report to the Plant Manager and essential functions include but are not limited to the following. 

• Partner with departments and pillars to drive improvements in all plant True North measurements utilizing Focused Improvement, AM, UAM, and other GPS tools and processes.
• Understand the 7 Key Performance Indicator (KPI) areas (Safety, Quality, Sustainability, Productivity, Delivery, Cost, and Engagement).
• Ability to identify and understand losses in the plant through data analysis and lead projects to eliminate the identified losses.
• Ensure projects are completely closed out with sustainability measures in place and all affected employees trained and signed off.
• Create and maintain robust plant communication tools and process across the facility for all GPS activities including daily review boards, measurement boards, team progress boards and charts, etc.
• Support GPS Boot Camp training events and work to develop the expertise, skill, and knowledge necessary to plan and execute boot camp trainings, facilitation, and report-outs.
• Calculate OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and help others understand biggest equipment losses.
• Foster employee engagement through involvement in improvement teams and use of GPS tools.

   The Skills you will bring to the team

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Good computer skills including Microsoft Office experience (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.
• Ability to teach and train others effectively and facilitate meetings and group discussions.
• Ability to speak effectively, present information, and respond to questions before groups of managers or employees.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions while dealing with a variety of variables.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

If you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please apply!

  

Where and how you will work  

The opportunity will be based in Clovis, NM.

 

What we would like to offer you!  

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.  

 

About Glanbia  

The Glanbia Group comprises three divisions: Glanbia Performance Nutrition, Glanbia Nutritional's, and Joint Ventures. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 6,000 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading products in 130 countries worldwide.  

  

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

 

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