Manufacturing Excellence Manager

Position Snapshot

Location: Jurong Factory, Singapore

Company: Nestlé Singapore

Type of contract: Permanent

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

We are looking for a Manufacturing Excellence Manager to be a guardian of the improvement process for Jurong Factory. In this role, you will coordinate and drive factory initiatives to develop, implement and maintain sustainable improvements, cost reduction and competitiveness whilst maintaining Nestle Quality Standards. You will ensure and optimize the use of resources through the identification and elimination of losses. You will serve as a center of expertise for dissemination, guidance and implementation of focused improvement methodologies in the market. Also, as the Focused Improvement (FI) Pillar Leader, you will drive the implementation of the FI Pillar of TPM methodology at the factory. You will coach and support pillar members, integrate and support the rest of the pillars and local committee. You will serve as Factory Goal Alignment (GA) Pillar specialist and is responsible for training, coaching and assessing people within the factory on GA practices.

A day in the life of…

• Actively support the teams in the TPM (Total Performance Management / Total Productive Maintenance) activities on the shopfloor.
• Coach the pillar leaders and members.
• Promote and support cross-fertilisation of ideas, knowledge, standards and improvements.
• Coordinate the support from external consultants if applicable.
• Motivate & empower people through positive attitude and stimulate change in traditional mind set.
• Integration of Pillars.
• Coordination with master pillar leaders and TPM coordinators.
• Consistent measuring, monitoring and improvement of factory standards whilst safeguarding assets.
• Ensure the implementation of the Best Practices as defined in the HPF BiC Repositories and Globe Business Excellence.
• Optimise the use of systems to maintain and improve competitiveness.
• Leadership of projects for improvements - Drive Factory initiatives to develop, implement and maintain sustainable improvements, cost reduction and competitiveness whilst maintaining Nestle Quality Standards.
• Report & validation of project results - Monitoring the implementation of improvement intitatives within the factory, ensure that the benefits are properly measured and that the impact on production costs are clearly identified. Results are communicated to stakeholders.
• Training & methodological support - Practice and serve as a mentor to the leaders of focused improvement projects in the factory. Conducting and implementation of continuous improvement tools within the factory. Coordination of CI team activities (training, team formation, monitoring of progress, information sharing).
• Technical support for production including using industrial performance tools to ensure successful troubleshooting and debottlenecking of process flow related to equipment. Conduct on his own focused improvement projects, or coordinate and lead multi-functional teams to improve.
• Training, coaching and assessment for the factory and the local committees on GA practices.
• Responsible to implement safety and environment practices in the workplace.

What will make you successful

• Bachelors' Degree in Engineering or related fields
• 5 to 7 years of relevant working experience in a similar capacity
• Demonstrated capability to lead a group of people
• Intermediate knowledge of TPM or similar continuous improvement methodology
• Good understanding of the business needs
• Exposure to implementing continuous improvement and employee involvement techniques. Implementation experience of TPM
• Problem solving techniques
• Change management
• Good stakeholder management and influencing skills