COORDINATOR OF OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Description
Hours:
Flexibility to work 1st and 2nd shift
Responsibility:
- Lives and reinforces Safety as a condition in all activities
- Serves as the Pilgrim’s Management Method subject matter expert for assigned facilities
- Leads assigned facility’s Management Method efforts by functioning as a business partner with each Method Pillar
- 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
- Delivers effective Management Method training
- Demonstrates ownership of core tools
- 6S
- Writing and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures
- Statistical Process Control
- Root Cause Analysis
- Kaizen Events
- Leads gap-closure projects and owns project success.
- Update and analyze key metrics for the assigned complex or business unit
- Leads self-assessment audits for Management Method.
Education:
Undergraduate Degree, (Prefer engineering, science, or business focus)
Experience:
- 2 - 5 years manufacturing industry experience (preferably in poultry)
- At least 1 year in Pilgrim’s
- Background in ZBB or production
Special Skills
- 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 (desired)
- Lean Methodology including Waste reduction experience
EOE, including disability/vets