Kraft Foods Group is one of the most admired and largest food and beverage businesses in North America. We're also one of the largest worldwide among publicly traded consumer packaged food and beverage companies, based on our 2011 combined net revenues of $18.7 billion.
We manufacture and market food and beverage products, including convenient meals, Refreshment beverages and coffee, cheese and other grocery products, primarily in the United States and Canada, under a host of iconic brands. Our product categories span breakfast, lunch and dinner meal occasions, both at home and in foodservice locations.
Our diverse brand portfolio consists of many of the most popular food brands in North America, Including three brands with annual net revenues exceeding $1 billion each - Kraft cheeses, dinners and dressings; Oscar Mayer meats; and Maxwell House coffees - plus over 20 brands with annual net revenues of between $100 million and $1 billion each.
In the United States, based on dollar share in 2011, we hold the number one branded share position in a majority of our 50 product categories, as well as in 18 of our top 20 product categories. We hold the number two branded share position in the other two product categories.
Oscar Mayer - Business Overview
Oscar Mayer is a $4 Billion business with its heritage dating back to 1883. The Oscar Mayer business unit is home to consumer favorites such as Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs, Oscar Mayer Cold Cuts, Oscar Mayer Bacon, Lunchables, Boca, and Claussen. Oscar Mayer has 8 dedicated manufacturing facilities in the United States and the business unit headquarters is located in Madison, WI.
Position Overview - CI Engineer
The CI Engineer position supports driving Continuous Improvement and Employee Engagement activities in the Unit and plant by leading/facilitating Integrated Lean 6-Sigma (our Total Productive Maintenance, or TPM program) tools and integrating them into the organization. Requires the facilitation of IL6S (TPM) events (Pilots and Replication), which includes developing and coordinating IL6S (TPM) training activity across all business units. Additional requirements include leading continuous improvement of the tools (5S, CIL, SMED, DMS), coaching all levels of the organization to support the plant employee engagement strategy, sustain the standards being developed, and measurement of success and progress via system health checks.
The CI Engineer will report to the Plant Continuous Improvement Manager (CI Mgr.) and will be the primary resource to support IL6S (TPM) activities in the Business Unit and Plant.
Principal Accountabilities / Responsibilities:
- Schedule/organize/conduct all IL6S (TPM) training, lead Model and Pilot events
- Continuously coach all levels of the organization to sustain the tools
- Develop/Improve IL6S (TPM) training documents and tool kits
- Conduct internal assessments to ensure process health
- Benchmark IL6S (TPM) best practices in/out Plant to improve standards
- Support the DMS process as a team member and TPM ambassador
- Leading continuous improvement of tools (5S, CIL, SMED, DMS)
- Other training and/or team support as assigned
· BS/MS Degree in Industrial Engineer, Engineering, Food Sciences, Chemistry, Business, Statistics, or related field
· Minimum 3 years of IL6S (TPM) leadership experience in manufacturing operations environment
· Must be a IL6S (TPM) subject matter expert and capable of being the site owner for integrating IL6S (TPM) in the Plant
· Must be able to effectively lead and coach hourly team members in a large union manufacturing environment
· Must be able to work with and motivate employees at all levels of the organization and across all departments involved/affected by IL6S (TPM) change
· Must have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
· Must have strong organizational and project management skills
· Must have strong computer skills including strong proficiency with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project)
· Six Sigma Black Belt/Lean Certification a plus
Kraft EEO Language
Kraft Foods is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Kraft recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.