Packaging Continuous Improvement

Job: Packaging Coordinator

Shift: Days; Monday-Friday

Location: Royal Canin (Fremont, NE)

The job of the Packaging Coordinator supports the process areas of the plant – Packaging and Warehouse to ensure associate safety, product quality and process efficiency. Provide functional support after normal business hours as a point of escalation for process failures. Steer the Packaging Triad team for improvement activities in the Packaging Department.

Qualifications:

Education & Professional Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field, or relevant work experience
• Packaging/Warehouse experience and knowledge

Knowledge/Experience

• Previous experience in food / feed process industry
• English: read, written, spoken
• Fully functional Microsoft Office
• Good communication, Cost conscious, Initiative, Etiquette skills, Self-motivated, Team player, Safety & Hygiene & Quality conscious, Technically inclined, Unrestricted range of motion, Color discrimination, Olfactory & texture perception, Depth perception, Tolerance to hot environment

Key Responsibilities:

SAFETY

• All PPE must be worn in compliance with the OHSA/RC requirements
• Enforce/Respect the safety rules and the internal policy
• Stop any equipment / operative works / external company works if safety/environment protection/fire protection rules are broken
• Support & promote plant safety and health within packaging department

ENVIRONMENT

• Guarantee and apply ISO (Environment), and all related working procedures
• Ownership of environmental responsibilities

QUALITY & FOODSAFETY

• Guarantee and apply ISO 9001, 22000, Mars Standards, and all related working procedures
• Support development, implementation and maintenance of the HACCP program in the packaging department
• Ensure GMP-GHP in the area
• Help update the Flowchart and Hazard Analysis
• Member of the Food safety team
• Analysis of results for verification activities, internal and external audits
• Support implementation, maintain CCPs and oPRPs in the department
• Train team to CCPs and oPRPs
• Manage non-conformities (decide, put on hold, isolate, destruct), analyze for root causes and undertake correctives actions as appropriate
• Drive food safety improvement activities for the packaging department

HUMAN RESOURCES

• Training: attend any training program as scheduled by company management and train any designed person in the position
• Prepare / Organize / Participate on plant visits
• Provide coaching where it is deemed necessary
• Assist Shift Manager to direct Process team workforce
• Establish program & documents for training & maintain
• Establish workforce training programs
• Identify & report cross training needs & opportunities within the packaging department for optimizing performance
• Participate to the recruitment of new associates

MANAGEMENT & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify top losses in the packaging department on a quarterly basis and steer the Packaging Triad to establish focused short-term and long-term plans to reduce top losses
• Partner with Shift Management to identify skill gaps for packaging and warehouse departments, create an effective gap closure plan, and support execution of gap closure plan
• Provide functional support after normal business hours as a point of escalation for process failures
• Ongoing activities focused on reduction of mixed kibble by ensuring process adherence and driving improvement activities
• Communicate with Maintenance, Technical Manager, Operations Manager and operators about equipment deficiencies and corrective actions
• Lead autonomous work teams in the area to develop autonomous maintenance skills with Packaging Operators
• Identify opportunities for automating plant processes
• Champion project coordination with vendors and plant personnel
• Perform area-related equipment first level maintenance
• Work with Operations Manager, on implementing Lean Manufacturing Tools

(5S, Hoshin, Poka-Yoke & Kaizen) to drive continuous improvement:

• Process improvements working in conjunction with Process Engineer
• Machine improvements working in conjunction with Process Engineer
• Implementing work order system
• Qualifying new equipment/processes with Process Enginee