Bel, makers of iconic brands including Babybel, The Laughing Cow, Boursin, and GoGo Squeez is a growing global company that values your contributions, strives to create a sense of belonging for everyone and offers career growth and development opportunities, as well as competitive total compensation and meaningful well-being benefits from day one. For All, For Good, our company signature, reflects Bel’s commitment to sustainability and healthier and responsible food for all. The company has headquarters in Chicago (Bel Brands USA) and New York City (GoGo Squeez) and operates 5 manufacturing plants in Little Chute, WI; Leitchfield, KY; Brookings, SD; Traverse City, MI; and Nampa, ID.

Job Description Summary

Provide leadership in the application of Continuous Improvement Principles and Methods to drive Little Chute toward optimization and improved efficiency. Work with leadership to identify opportunities, execute action plans, follow-up and ensure achievement of enterprise goals. Responsible for methodology, training, coaching and assessing in regards to PCS and Continuous Improvement deployment at the facility.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

· Works effectively in an environment of change. Working collaboratively with customers, suppliers, teammates and support areas in a blameless environment.

· Builds relationships and reputations cross functionally to achieve business results through influence and leadership.

· Works with business areas to develop Current State Maps and Future State Plans. Executes the plans and follows-up to ensure that changes are sustained and evaluated for effectiveness.

· Provides aid to teams to prioritize improvement opportunities on tactical planning objectives to maximize waste reduction.

· Oversees projects to completion with identified team leads.

· Supervises individuals in the execution of process improvement activities and monitoring of performance to standard work throughout Operations.

· Develops others on Lean principles and tools for implementing creative solutions for system and process improvements.

· Standard Work, TPM, Value Stream Mapping, Ergonomics, SMED, 5-S, 3P, Kanban, Time Studies, Takt Time, 8 Wastes, Six Sigma.

· Coordinates and / or facilitates administrative or operations related Lean kaizen activities.

· Plans and schedules of future events.

· Assures open communications and involvement of employees who work in the process.

· Coordination and periodic updates of progress.

· Guides team leaders to accomplish tasks with given resources and stays motivated and focused to prioritize activities.

· Facilitates and guides all team members of Kaizens through conflict resolution and maintains lean principle guidelines.

· Uses Lean techniques to perform process reviews and aids in establishing standardized work procedures .

· Keeps teams on target to achieve SMART goals and ensuring that teams respond quickly to arising issues .

· Works with plant management to maintain Scorepop database.

· Responsible for maintaining Check Weigh database used to gather piece weights, downtime and production quantities.

· All other duties as assigned.

Safety, Environmental and Quality

· Follows all safety rules and procedures by working safely and ensuring safety of others.

· Follows all environmental protocols as applicable to the job.

· Follows all Good Manufacturing Practices as stated within the policy.

· Follow all food safety procedures.

· Maintains a sanitary and safe work area; performs housekeeping duties as necessary and/or required.

· Detects potentially hazardous conditions and problems and takes appropriate action to report and/or correct.

Knowledge/Education

Minimum degree and experience required:

· Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent experience.

· 3-5 years of production or logistics experience in a manufacturing setting.

· Demonstrated understanding of Lean Manufacturing concepts, and a thorough knowledge of lean principles and processes, 2 plus years of experience directly in Continuous Improvement preferred.

Competencies and Abilities

· Ability to communicate and develop good working relationships with team members.

· Strong management skills with the ability to clearly communicate expectations and motivate peers, direct reports and other interested parties.

· Excellent communication skills; understands audience and adjusts communication to drive desired results.

· Must be able to accurately and efficiently perform all job duties with a sense of urgency.

· Exhibit Bel’s core values of:

· CARE

o Inspire and grow self and others by developing yourself and others through challenge and support with honest constructive feedback

o Act with people and planet front of mind in all decisions and actions.

· DARE

o Think bold, act fast by being ambitious with ideas and initiatives. Make decisions and deliver quickly.

o Simply and focus by prioritizing what delivers the most value. Promote simplicity and remove complications.

· COMMIT

o Play to win as a team by taking accountability to deliver on results and maximize impact by actively collaborating.

o Make customers smile by improving internal and external customer satisfaction in everything we do.

Performance Expectations: Quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, and thoroughness of work performed; ability to gain the trust and respect of management, coworkers and brokers; maintain the integrity of confidential business and product information; ability to communicate effectively and develop good working relationships with other employees is essential to accomplish goals and objectives of the department.

Working Conditions: Work is performed largely in a manufacturing environment. Hours of work will generally be during regular business hours with at least 40 hours a week. At times there will be some variation in work hours due to special projects, deadlines and other concerns. Occasional travel may be required.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Acknowledgement: This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed by employee assigned to this position. It does not state or imply that these are the only duties and responsibilities assigned to the job. The employee may be required to perform other job-related duties as requested by management. All requirements are subject to change over time and to possible modifications to reasonably accommodate individuals with a disability.

Bel Brands is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Bel Brands prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also Bel Brand’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

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