You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments - and we're only getting started. At McCormick, we're always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.
McCormick employees - all 14,000 of us across the world - are what makes this company a great place to work.
We are looking to hire a Manager I Continuous Improvement immediately in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
What We Bring To The Table:
The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you'd expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:
- Career growth opportunities
- Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
- We prioritize our communities and the planet we share. We are proud to be awarded as a Diversity Inc. Top 50 company for Diversity and have multiple Sustainability awards (ranking in the World and in Food Products)
- Wellbeing programs including Physical, Mental and Financial wellness
POSITION SUMMARY
Reporting to the Continuous Improvement Department Manager, the Continuous Improvement Manager will be responsible for providing leadership, direction, and functional expertise to the Plant for loss analysis, analytics, and training systems. This position supports the Plant Leadership Team in the JTE (Journey to Excellence) strategy focused on building Employee capability, enhancing the data reliability systems, and driving Employee engagement through implementation of high-performance work systems to achieve exceptional business results.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Implement and Coach effective JTE and T&D systems.
- Coach direct reports, site employees, and SMEs on methodology and tools:
- Basic performance data and trends
- Problem solving
- Root cause analysis
- Loss reduction projects
- Participate on Training and Development Pillar
- Create and maintain site training systems
- Leading site Data and Analytics
- Maintaining integrity of site data through training, health checks, and change control. Focus includes scorecards, downtime data base, manual tracking systems and SAP master data.
- Providing analysis and insights to key performance metrics like Process Reliability, Productivity, Yield and Scrap.
- Collating and publishing site scorecard every month.
- Creating and executing site Analytics strategy.
- Establishing scorecard review processes based on the appropriate frequency and participants.
- Driving data-based decision-making behavior at all levels
- Creating visibility to Loss Data
- Owning Loss Analysis program to support site's OGSM and budget targets
- Helping prioritize loss reduction projects in collaboration with the site leadership team
- Providing supporting data analysis and justifications for any technology improvements and capital expenditures and feasibility studies
- Leading site Focused Improvement pillar
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 3 years working in manufacturing operations
- Background in Total Productive Maintenance / Lean, Change Management and Organizational Effectiveness
- Familiarity with creating reports using our current (and future) BI tools, e.g. Power BI, Tableau
- Experience analyzing complex datasets, generating insights and building robust statistical models. Should be comfortable working with structured and unstructured data.
- Ability to analyze complex information in order to make judgments and decisions. Data intensive - thrives in detail with purpose - does not get paralyzed by analysis.
- Ability to create people change plan for strategic initiatives. Ability to be an influencer of large or high-risk change initiatives.
- Create intra-plant collaboration (operations, functional areas, support areas)
- Ability to provide key insights to leadership in order to influence priority development
- Ability to develop action plans, obtain or assign resources, and align day-to-day processes to achieve strategic goals.
- Ability to analyze data to gather actionable insights.
- Ability to achieve project goals and objectives by applying the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about successful project completion.
- Understand key financial topics, including: Budgeting, Cost Center Ownership, CAAP, IRR, Yield, Waste, Scrap and Loss Analysis
- Ability to use appropriate root cause analysis decision tools for decision making
- Ability and willingness to work flexible hours and days as needed to meet business demands
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in a CPG
- Team and Operations Leadership experience
- Experience developing justifications and cost estimates for capital projects
- Experience developing and writing procedures (SOP's) with cross functional teams and supporting training activities
- Experience leading and coaching process improvement and/or continuous improvement teams