Plant Operations Excellence Manager

2 days ago


Brantford, Ontario, Canada TreeHouse Foods Full time

About Us:

TreeHouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of production facilities across the United States and Canada. Our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We invest in talent and create a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work, directly impacting our mission to make high-quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families.

What We Offer:

  • Competitive compensation and benefits program
  • Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs
  • Paid holidays, vacation, and other competitive paid time off opportunities
  • An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of people
  • Leaders who are invested in supporting your career growth
  • Opportunities to be recognized for outstanding contributions to your team through our employee recognition programs

About the Role:

This leadership role is responsible for implementing and sustaining the TreeHouse Management Operating Structure (TMOS) at our site. You will lead projects to review supply chain processes and related areas, applying advanced continuous improvement principles and practices to improve products, quality, efficiency, financials, operations, and related areas. Responsibilities may include participating with management to prioritize project initiation, developing project objectives, facilitating teams, leading the implementation of project results, and tracking project results.

  • Serve on the site leadership team to build organizational capability to implement and sustain the TreeHouse Management Operating Structure in the identification and elimination of losses and waste.
  • Monitor and support key metrics and KPIs for overall supply chain performance and process effectiveness within the site. Support and coach KPI owners in completing gap analyses, identifying and implementing corrective actions, and assessing to ensure that gaps are closed.
  • Support and coach KPI owners in the PDCA process, including completing gap analyses, identifying and implementing corrective actions, and ensuring that gaps are closed and results are sustained.
  • Lead a portfolio of projects and teams in the review and analysis of moderate to large supply chain processes to ensure efficient and effective operations.
  • Identify supply chain process requirements, improvement opportunities, and best practices for the site, ensuring alignment with TreeHouse Management Operating Structure. Lead replication activities for the site.
  • Leverage site data to prioritize initiatives, define project requirements, scope, resources, team members, tasks, and project owners.
  • Drive consistent and effective use of pillar tools, communication across teams, and seamless reapplication of company best practices and standards. Partner with site management and process owners to implement new processes or guidelines, determine improvements, identify and track savings, develop reports, and receive approval when required.
  • Assist with training and coaching others to build organizational self-sufficiency with continuous improvement methods and tools.

About You:

You'll be a great fit if you have:

  • Bachelor's Degree Recommended – Type: Operations, Engineering, Management, or related field.
  • Strong situational leadership skills to influence all levels of the organization within the plant location.
  • Capable of building strong relationships with Operations leaders to effect change.
  • High level of credibility and influence among hourly associates in the site.
  • Analytical, trouble-shooting, and problem-solving skills to assess needs, understand issues, and identify improvement opportunities.
  • Able to design, develop, and deploy improvement strategies that support TreeHouse, divisional, and site strategic objectives.
  • Able to become the subject matter expert for supply chain processes for the site and continuously create the future state.
  • Must have strong verbal and written communication skills to represent site continuous improvement activities.
  • Strong PC skills; Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), and other applicable applications such as Microsoft Project, Minitab, etc.
  • Minimum 4 years plant-based manufacturing experience, previous project management experience, and continuous improvement skills training.


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