Continuous Improvement

Operations Management Support Moberly, Missouri


Description

Position at JBS USA

 
           
Job Title: Plant Continuous Improvement 
Location: Moberly, MO
 
 
Our Company, Your Opportunity:             
This is a unique opportunity to be in a start-up environment, with the backing of a Global CPG Powerhouse.  This is a role for someone who is looking for an entrepreneurial challenge in a company with aspirations to be leaders within the CPG world.  The position will have both strategic and tactical elements.  This is an opportunity for a person who wants to think Big, dream Big and work to make Big ideas a reality.
 
Our Mission:
To be THE BEST in all we do.  We are completely focused on our business, ensuring the BEST products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers and profitability for our shareholders.  All this, we do to provide an opportunity for a better future for all of our TEAM MEMBERS.
 
Values:
 
 
Responsibilities: 
The plant industrial engineer will act an operational excellence specialist focusing on the below essential duties and responsibilities: 
  • Responsible for proactively working with facility management to identify and assess KPI gaps, and lead projects to closure through the use of Operational Excellence tools and methodologies 
  • Live and reinforce safety as a condition in all activities 
  • Deliver effective training 
  • Demonstrate ownership of core tools 
    • 6S 
    • Writing and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures 
    • Statistical Process Control 
    • Root Cause Analysis 
    • Kaizen Events 
  • Will manage multiple projects per year, assisting others with projects 
  • Hours and days can fluctuate depending on business demand 
  • Must be self-directed
  • Good communication skills 
  • Lead gap-closure projects and owns project success. 
  • Update and analyze key metrics for the assigned complex or business unit 
  • Work closely with regional operational excellence specialist on other duties and projects 
 
 Capabilities/Qualifications: 
  • Undergraduate degree (engineering, science, or business focus preferred) 
  • 2 - 5 years manufacturing industry experience 
  • Background in ZBB or production 
  • Good oral and written communication skills 
  • Strong Excel user 
  • MiniTab experience preferred 
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills 
  • Good internal relationship skills 
  • Resilient & Flexible 
  • Teaching and coaching skills 
  • Hands-on mentality 
  • High level of business acumen 
  • 6 Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred 
  • Lean Methodology including Waste reduction experience 
  
Physical Demands/Work Environment: 
  
  • Frequently required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle/feel items, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and talk or hear. 
  • Office and plant setting: the plant environment will include wet or humid conditions (non-weather related), extreme cold (non-weather related), and working near moving mechanical parts 
  • Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud when in the production area. 

If interested, please apply at jbssa.com/careers. We offer a full range of benefits including health care, life insurance, and a 401 (K) plan. 
JBS Prepared Foods is an equal opportunity employer.
                                                                EOE, including disability/vets