Continuous Improvement Lead - 1st Shift - CI

Immediate Hiring for an experienced Continuous Improvement Lead at Glanbia Performance Nutrition!

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a global nutrition company dedicated to providing better nutrition for every step of life’s journey. Using pure and clean ingredients such as milk, whey, and grains, Glanbia creates high‑quality nutritional ingredients and branded consumer products for customers and consumers worldwide.

Glanbia Performance Nutrition (GPN), headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Glanbia. Our brand portfolio includes Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, Think!, Nutramino, Body & Fit, LevlUp, Amazing Grass, and SlimFast. We manufacture and market a full range of performance and lifestyle nutrition products sold across retail, online, gyms, and global markets.

GPN operates state-of-the-art facilities with more than 2,500 employees worldwide and is part of Glanbia plc, a global nutrition group with over 6,000 employees in 34 countries.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation for roles at Glanbia varies depending on a wide range of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Illinois. This range may not be applicable to other locations. The hourly rate for Illinois based employees for this role is $27.50/hour.

Benefits Include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, FSA, HSA, Life & Disability Insurance, 19 Days Paid Time Off and 6% 401K match!

Schedule

1st Shift: 6:00am-2:30pm M-F

General Summary

The Continuous Improvement (CI) Leads, under the direction of the CI Manager, is to work with the Production, Maintenance and other departments to facilitate the implementation of the company’s Operation Excellence Program (OPEX) by using lean manufacturing principles and other tools to develop and implement processes designed to improve safety, quality, and efficiency. The CI Leads will also be required to coordinate the training for OPEX programs and SOP development across all sites, and create a learning environment/culture of problem solving, inclusion and empowerment, responsibility and accountability.

Essential Functions

• Ensure compliance with reporting standards to provide consistent measuring, monitoring, and improvement of performance.
• Coordinate a phased implementation of "Glanbia Performance Systems” throughout the GPN operations departments.
• Coordinate, train, educate, implement, execute on operations functions and improvement initiatives.
• Ensure proper application of the (Operation Excellence Program (OPEX) not sure what we call this) to proactively
• Improve the productivity and reliability of the operations.
• Perform cause analysis on productivity and reliability measurements to target areas for improvement.
• Responsible to deliver the cost savings target for the sites.
• Coordinate / train / educate / lead / facilitate teams to implement sustained improvements in order to increase the productivity and reliability of the processing operations, and assist in achieving the performance target for each facility
• Ensure the use of continuous improvement tools along with assisting in 6S project monitoring and mentoring.
• Ensure and maintain compliance with safety, quality, and professional standards within the food manufacturing facility.
• Sustained education and coaching of site personnel of all levels in Lean & Continuous improvement tools and principles.
• Develop, design, and document processes that help improve safety, quality, and efficiency.
• Works to identify areas of waste and identify ways to reduce/eliminate the waste.
• Work with maintenance, operations, quality when designing and overseeing installation of plant tools designed to make work easier, safer, and more efficient.
• Work with production team members to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the plant process.
• Responsible for benchmarking and best practice sharing across the organization.
• Diagnose the operations processes to identify opportunities for improvement
• Develop and present ROI projects

Decision Making/Problem Solving

• Able to use DMAIC process to define Root cause
• Know difference between Root cause and a Symptom
• Develop a sustainable permanent corrective action..

Education

• College or Equivalent Preferred - College graduate (preferred) Will except candidate with training / Certifications in OPEX Programs

Experience

• 3 - 5 years of manufacturing experience in a large organization recognized as a leader in its field

Other Experience

• An ability to bring a vision to the Continuous Improvement (CI) effort that is aligned with the organization's growth and improvement strategies, coupled with the strategic and tactical planning skills needed to realize the vision
• Prefer six sigma Green Belt certification
• TPM Implementation Knowledge
• Experience in project management
• A proven ability to establish, optimize and maintain world-class systems, lean systems, and other continuous improvement systems.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to lead teams to success with limited levels of authority
• Attention to detail and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks with continually changing objectives/priorities.
• Proven facilitation, influencing, and leadership skills
• Demonstrated effective communication skills (including presentations and classroom sessions) throughout all levels of the organization
• Extensive knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and proven ability to effectively implement the principles in a dynamic manufacturing/processing environment
• Demonstrated skill in applying detailed technical analysis
• Broad understanding of manufacturing concepts

• Proven ability to identify and set priorities based on greatest return on investment of resources
• Demonstrated personal commitment and accountability to affect positive change within the organization
• Promote training, education, empowerment, teamwork
• Effective communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Organization and planning skills with the ability to prioritize workloads
• Ability to lead cross functional teams and work with people across all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate others
• Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change in a work environment
• Strong analytical skills.

Physical Demands

• Sitting, standing, walking, bending/stooping

Lifting Demands

• Lift up to waist
• Lift on up to shoulder
• Lift on up to overhead
• Carry on up to 25 feet
• Carry up stairs

Disclaimer

This job description is not intended, nor should it be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, or working conditions associated with the particular job. It is intended only to be a general description of the essential functions common to positions of this type.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and 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. 

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.