About this role
- Competitive Compensation
- Health, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance (Comprehensive healthcare benefits package, with many coverage options at a very low employee cost)
- 401K (generous retirement benefits) with a Company Match
- Paid Holidays and Paid Time Off
Summary: Continuous Improvement supervisor who actively participates, leads and implements process improvement initiatives across our bakery ingredient manufacturing operations. This role will focus on optimizing production processes, reducing waste, enhancing product quality, and ensuring operational excellence through hands-on work within Lean, Six Sigma, and other CI methodologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Track, trend and report key performance indicators (KPIs), such as OEE or performance effectiveness, yield, waste, downtime analysis and trending, batch rates, Pounds per man-hour and implement corrective actions with and within the manufacturing operations and support departments when needed to positively impact said KPIs.
- Participating, facilitating and leading Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement (CI) initiatives across production, packaging, quality, maintenance and sanitation departments.
- Analyze production data, workflows, identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies to drive process optimization.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement, create or modify Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and best practices. Assist (as needed) in training and validating the expected change in said SOPs and best practices
- Partner with Quality, Maintenance, and Operations to identify and resolve process-related issues.
- Actively use CI tools such as Kaizen events, 5S, Value Stream Mapping, and Root Cause Analysis to improve safety, quality, and efficiency. Perform hands-on training on these tools and validate the effectiveness of utilization of the CI tools.
- Develop and conduct CI training programs to build and sustain a culture of continuous improvement at all levels as needed.
- Evaluate and justify capital improvement projects that enhance throughput and reduce cost.
- Drive compliance with food safety, health & safety, and regulatory standards (e.g., BRC, AIB, FISMA, FDA, SQF, HACCP).
- Other duties to meet the goals of the organization.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of CI or operations experience in a food or bakery manufacturing environment.
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BakeMark is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment, in accordance with the requirements of all applicable state and federal laws, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, age or any other basis prohibited by law.
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What you'll do
- The Supervisor of Continuous Improvement will lead and implement process improvement initiatives across bakery ingredient manufacturing operations. This role focuses on optimizing production processes, reducing waste, and enhancing product quality.
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