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About the Role

This role is responsible for driving process and capability improvement to achieve plant/bakery goals by optimizing processes, creating new ones, identifying improvements, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement through coaching.

Responsibilities

• Drive process and system improvements by identifying opportunities, implementing continuous improvement programs, and delivering sustainable operational benefits.
• Conduct site assessments to identify improvement opportunities and implement solutions that enhance efficiency, productivity, and performance.
• Coach, train, and mentor employees on Lean concepts, continuous improvement methodologies, and best practices, developing supporting documentation and training materials.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, employee engagement, quality, and food safety.
• Develop project plans, schedules, and budgets for process improvements and operational excellence initiatives.
• Lead and support the execution of capital projects, ensuring effective maintenance and optimization of facility assets.
• Implement change management principles at all levels through coaching and employee engagement.
• Achieve plant productivity targets by developing projects, ideas, and best practices linked to plant Loss Analysis.
• Validate new processes and optimize current processes (e.g., Changeovers, Sanitation, CIL, Center lining).
• Implement and train functions on new tools (e.g., standard work, TPM tools, gap analysis, data analysis, loss analysis), ensuring employee capability development.
• Lead and support cross-functional teams through the preparation, execution, and follow-up of continuous improvement projects.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Maintenance, Engineering, or Production roles, preferably within an industrial Food Manufacturing environment.
• Prior experience leading continuous improvement projects utilizing Lean methodologies such as 5S, Kanban, and Visual Management.
• Proven capability of leading a transformation effort, including change management, stakeholder engagement, and robust communication.
• Ability to coach, inspire, and work with cross-functional managers, supervisors, and employees.
• Experience working within company-wide Lean standardization programs while sharing best practices across multiple sites.
• Ability to influence all levels of the organization and make strategic decisions.
• Ability to work within a corporate-wide lean standardization program and provide best practices for other sites.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships.
• Strong leadership skills to motivate and retain well-qualified individuals of diverse talents, interests, and cultural backgrounds.
• Leadership presence to energize, drive, and lead teams, and to influence with integrity at all levels to enable results through others.

Skills

• Lean methodologies (5S, Kanban, Visual Management)
• Change management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Communication
• Coaching
• Training
• Project planning
• Process optimization
• Data analysis
• Loss analysis
• Standard work
• TPM tools
• Gap analysis

Location

• North America

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Minimum 5 years

Education Level

• Six Sigma Certification a strong asset

Benefits

• Opportunities for career growth and development
• Learning and growth environment where sharing new ideas, experimenting, and learning from each other is strongly encouraged.

About the Company

• Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp. is a proud member of the Mondelēz family.
• We are a leading and growing North American manufacturer of baked goods for over 30 years.
• Our Consumer Brands include two-bite® brand, two bite-brownies®, Kimberley's Bakeshoppe™, Mason St. Bakehouse™ and The Worthy Crumb Pastry Co™.
• It’s an exciting time to be a part of the Give & Go team as we are growing rapidly.
• We are committed to preserving our diversity & culture that is unique, people-focused and core to our success at every size.
• Our values of Quality, Direct Communication and Respect mean something.

Equal Opportunity

• Give and Go is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees regardless of race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences (for which a pardon has been granted), disability, marital or family status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• If you require an accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at careers@giveandgo.com, citing "AODA" in the subject line, along with your request and contact information.