Manufacturing Area Leader

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Job Number #165513 - Richmond, Indiana, 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.
 

Job Summary

The Manufacturing Area Leader is responsible for effectively managing all functions related to conversion production and maintenance activities within the Richmond plant and developing cross-functional partnerships to improve the plant’s safety, quality, productivity, and reliability.  The Area Leader will be accountable for maintaining effective KPIs, driving manufacturing excellence standards, and leading processing improvements in the areas of reliability, waste, product quality, safety, and cost per pound. 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage the continuous improvement systems as established by manufacturing excellence guidelines and standards by conducting regular data driven CI reviews, coordinating cross-functional evaluations of CI projects through ROI, Continuous Improvement Plans (CIP) and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and lead CI project timelines to achieve optimization initiatives.

• Work as part of the Autonomous Maintenance Steering Team to develop and implement the guidelines and standards of a technician driven AM program.

• Establish and maintain effective Key Performance Indicator (KPI) measurements for the plant, tracking and reporting tools, and establish corrective action for continuous improvement.

• Manage the maintenance functions in the conversion areas of the facility to effectively schedule and implement maintenance work orders, preventative maintenance (PM) plans as well as autonomous maintenance (AM) activities while leveraging the SAP PM System and work order process.  

• Lead the development of process improvements and optimization (throughput, yield, quality, and cost). 

• Assist in achievement of plant KPI’s by working with Team Leaders to translate business needs into daily operations and creation of technical solutions. 

• Establish, maintain, audit and analyze the OPERA data structure.

• Empower teams by way of training, information sharing, coaching, feedback, appraisals and delegation, to ensure the development of people, skills, teams and organizational capabilities.

• Support plant and Quality Assurance in identifying quality defects and driving resolution internally and with suppliers to improve material quality.

• Implement specific product, material, process and package standardization and simplification margin improvement projects and integrate external continuous improvement best practices.

• Responsible for managing maintenance expenditure budgets and delivering continuous improvement projects that reduce manufacturing variances.

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