Operational Excellence Manager
Recruiter Contact
Tim Meier
Candidate Development Manager
941-900-4539
Land O Lakes
Operational Excellence Manager
Beneva Group has recently been engaged by a leading Agricultural company to identify their next Operational Excellence Manager. This individual will lead and drive operations excellence and transformation efforts to integrate day to day performance stabilization and continuous improvement in manufacturing facilities. The Operational Excellence Manager will work closely with facility and operations excellence teams and will be instrumental in developing change leadership capabilities and deploying change management techniques and solutions. In addition, this individual with promote a culture of sustained operational excellence culture within Manufacturing while delivering Ignite and Cost to Serve targets.-
Key Responsibilities
Operations Excellence Manager will lead and drive operations excellence and transformation efforts to integrate day to day performance stabilization and continuous improvement in manufacturing facilities. Working closely with facility and operations excellence teams, this role will be instrumental in developing change leadership capabilities and deploying change management techniques and solutions to support the Land O’Lakes Production System and to promote a culture of sustained operational excellence culture within Manufacturing while delivering Ignite and Cost to Serve targets. Leading plants through Operations Excellence journey, owning initiatives and supporting development of more junior team members, the Operations Excellence Manager will coach individuals and teams on change, and ensure the right technical experts are involved in problem solving. This role will rely on strong leadership, communication, analytical and technical skills to drive performance around key facility deliverables
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Qualifications
• 4-year degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering or related degree, MBA preferred
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification required, Black Belt certification highly desirable
• 10+ years of experience in a manufacturing leadership role or continuous improvement environment required, food or CPG industry preferred
• Strong knowledge of Power BI and other visualization tools and data analytics experience
• Experience driving Lean principles, new implementation highly desirable
• Experience leading and training a team or large initiatives, sound functional understanding of supply chain operations, principles, and activities -
Location
Remote
80-100% travel required
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A Farmer Owned CoOp
Land O Lakes is farmer owned. They have 91 dairy farmers that work together to create a natural, quality. They’re feeding human progress. Their four businesses give us a farmer-to-fork view of agriculture, and paired with their co-op ownership model, they’re uniquely qualified to fulfill their purpose of feeding human progress
Inclusion
Land O Lakes is committed to creating brave spaces, promoting racial equity, and fostering a culture of support and empowerment.
Winfield United
Winfield United helps independently owned and operated agricultural retailers compete. They do this by providing these retailers with technical know-how, proprietary tools and research-based solutions to help farmers win in the field and in the marketplace.