Process Lead - Murfreesboro Plant

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Process Lead provides safety and servant-based leadership to achieve breakthrough production results on a specific production line/ system. The Process Lead is responsible for building capability in Operating Teams and Equipment Owners. The Process Lead works to drive out top losses on a 24-hour, multiple shift cycle through a rigorous Daily Direction Setting system, specifically through ownership of data integrity and process centerlines. This position leverages the process discipline of continuous improvement tools.

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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Technical content owner for the line/ system
• Leads portions of the daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly DDS meetings, including:
  • Daily reporting of top losses with a plan to address
  • Execution of the plan for the day
  • Weekly loss tree refresh
• Owns the following for the assigned line/ system:
  • Manufacturing data (MQIS) integrity
  • Health of Process Centerline system: Leads identification of centerline targets, documentation of standards, and coaches the Line Team and technicians through the execution, problem solving and change management
  • Rate Strategy - Conduct capability studies
  • Changeover management system: Leads closing the gap against specific metrics (Human and Food Safety, Mean Time Between Failure, overuse, etc.), timeliness and success of changeovers
  • Ensures line/system is meeting product attributes and process parameters that drive them
  • Develop basic technical capability of operators on your line (machine and material interface)
  • Identifies and addresses safety risks related to top losses (equipment interaction) and changeover activities
• Supports development and leads execution of the 90-Day improvement plan to deliver the glidepath through loss elimination
• Builds capability of the line team to understand losses through data
• Applies advanced data analysis leveraging tools such as S-curve and Weibull
• Provides production support as needed

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of manufacturing operations experience
• High learning agility and comfort with data
• Technical acumen and process rigor
• Experience with MS Office, especially MS Excel

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Math, Science, or Engineering
• Experience leading change
• Previous Line Team or manufacturing continuous improvement program experience
• Experience pulling and analyzing data

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

• International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered.
• Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. General Mills will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas.

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best - bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.