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Conagra Manager Plant Continuous Improvement in Saint Elmo, Illinois
As the Manager Plant Continuous Improvement in our St. Elmo, Illinois plant you will partner with the plant’s entire team to ensure the use of performance tools - establishing a zero-loss manufacturing culture where everyone, every day, learns and improves something, delivering World Class sustainable performance. You will report to the Plant Manager.
You Will:
Lead the cultural shift to managing through pillars
Provide leadership and subject matter expertise in ConAgra Performance System (CPS) best practices.
Coordinate and support plant pillar and platform leads (5S, Safety, Planned Maintenance, Focused Improvement, etc.)
Engage all associates through hands-on mentoring, audits, etc.
Lead the Reliability Improvement Plans (RIP); establish action plans; and follow-up meetings
Work with teams (i.e. Project Engineers, Contractors, Technicians, Peers, and Other CPS Pillars leads) to guide actions to support CPS
Lead and engage team members to in improve processes.
Coach teams in giving and receiving feedback, root cause analysis, trade-off analysis, interpersonal communications and external interactions
Work with the Operations teams to create an Autonomous Maintenance work culture and run to centerline.
Promote with teams important CPS concepts everyday through coaching and auditing across the organization.
Facilitate and react to non-routine and crisis situations.
Respond to and use communication tools
You Have:
High School Diploma or GED equivalent required, 4 yr degree in Business Management, Organizational Development, Engineering or other related fields
3 yr manufacturing experience
Three+ years experience in Continuous Improvement environment – TPM, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and related process improvement systems.
Three+ years in facilitating teams; oversee root-cause analysis, data collection, and using TPM/ CPS concepts such as “Why, Why/ How How”, Phenomena Thinking.
Working knowledge of production equipment and systems including maintenance activities.
Interpret a variety of technical information in mathematical and narrative form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Number of Days in Office: 5
Relocation assistance is available for this position. Preference will be given to local candidates.
At this time, we require applicants for this role to be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring employer sponsorship either now or in the future.
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Our Benefits:
We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:
Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life, accident and disability insurance
Wealth: great pay, incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
Growth: online courses, virtual and classroom development experiences
Balance: paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role)
Our Company:
Conagra Brands is one of North America's leading branded food companies. We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team that’s passionate about innovation and growth. Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, and emerging brands, including Angie's® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke's®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®.
We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2940510-1&h=2999397156&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conagrabrands.com%2F&a=www.conagrabrands.com) .
Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law.