Manufacturing Excellence Lead

3 days ago

Brantford, Canada Barry Callebaut Full time

Manufacturing Excellence Lead

**Location**:Brantford, ON, CA, N3V 0A8At Barry Callebaut, we are on a journey to transform the cocoa and chocolate industry. As the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, our actions truly shape the future of our industry. We are a business-to-business company, serving the entire food sector, from the cocoa bean to the finest chocolate product. We are a company with a purpose, we believe in doing well by doing good and reinvesting in the communities we operate. We have a long-standing commitment to sustainability and our goal is to shape a sustainable cocoa and chocolate future. We are headquartered in Zurich, and have more than 12,000 passionate Employees working in more than 40 countries worldwide. We are very proud of who we are and what we do. And of course, we are always looking for talented people to help us have a positive impact on our industry and beyond
- About the role- The role of the Process Lead is to eliminate process losses on equipment or areas, to support the line team to create process standards, and to coach using standard tools to perform problem-solving. The process lead is responsible for implementing and/or maintaining, and continuously improving, the daily management systems (DMSs) they own in their area, typically the centerline (CL) and changeover (CO) DMS.- Key responsibilities- Leadership- Actively participating in line daily direction setting (DDS) meetings and in the execution of the daily plan, including reporting on the following results for the previous 24 hours:

- Centerline (CL) completion and compliance
- Changeover (CO) adherence to plan and critiques
- Planning and maintaining continuous improvement (CI)- Identifying, prioritizing, and eliminating process losses.
- Building the process capability and control.
- Providing feedback to design and leading smart standardization deployment.
- Defining equipment standards
- Leading the change management (CM) and validation processes.
- Leading and building the capability of process failure technical troubleshooting.
- Collaborating with line leads and equipment owners (EOs) to develop new standards.
- Owning line tasks- Designing, implementing, and maintaining systems to collect and analyze data for critical product and process parameters.
- Using this data to identify process losses.
- Working with line management to prioritize improvement opportunities.
- Eliminating or reducing (prioritized) losses through making process or work system changes.
- Participating in the daily direction setting (DDS) process - report results, flag issues, and request resources.
- Owning critical daily management systems (DMSs), e.g., Run-to-Target (RTT) and centerlines.
- Using reliability engineering and data analysis tools to drive centerline and loss elimination.
- Standardizing equipment and work processes; owning the change management (CM) system for a designated process; updating process control strategies and operating procedures, as changes occur.
- Preparing and giving training on process/equipment changes.
- Developing through participating in corporate and external training.
- Taking part in planned stops and rapid changeovers (RCO) flowing to the line, as needed.
- Standardizing and improving rapid changeovers (RCO).
- Other expectations- Spend 80% of the time on the floor.
- Become a technical expert for a designated process.
- Qualify in all basic operating roles.
- Coach and collaborate with the line teams, and with the site and regional equipment or process owners.
- Reporting Relationship- Depending on the complexity of the site, the process lead can report to the line lead or to the technical department manager.- The process lead receives additional coaching from autonomous maintenance (AM) teams, progressive maintenance (PM) resources, the integrated work system (IWS) lead, and continuous improvement (CI) teams.- About you- Basic IWS high performance organization (HPO) training.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal collaboration skills.
- Effective communication skills at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to present to small groups.
- Strong technical skills, and ability to work with data and information.
- Priority setting.
- Strong communication/coaching/training skills.
- Technical and practical equipment and tool skills.
- Demonstrated ability to assimilate technical data to support recommendations.
- Good experience in problem-solving in the production area.
- Familiarity with structured problem-solving tools.
- Travel requirements:
- occasional 5% based on assigned project locations.
- Environmental / Working Conditions:
- Must be able to freely move around entire facility.
- Ability to work in and be exposed to heat.At Barry Callebaut, we are committed to Diversity & Inclusion. United by our strong values, we thrive on the diversity of who we are, where we come from, what we’ve experienced and how we think. We are committed to nurturing a

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