Description

• Partner collaboratively with operations to analyze and develop recommendations regarding failures and lost production and identify and implement solutions to improve the system, standard work and processes.
• Implement and audit leading operational practices and purposefully raise performance by monitoring key performance indicators.
• Responsible for leveraging the most effective approach to identify, monitor, and where applicable, implement continuous improvement and best practices initiatives.
• Manage and implement proactive maintenance and reliability activities, production excellence activities and continuous improvement activities for a less complex site or a single more complex department.
• Lead local and departmental alignment of stakeholders including operations, environmental and supply chain.
• Implement technology transfer packages to locations including plant trial execution and local plant trial plans.
• Partner collaboratively with cross functional regional leaders to leverage resources, knowledge and strategies that increase value captured throughout the portfolio of production excellence projects.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

• At least 15 years of experience in cocoa/chocolate manufacturing.
• Minimum 5 years in audit, QA/QC, and process improvement within a cocoa/chocolate manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in product development for cocoa/chocolate products