Continuous Improvement Specialist - Elizabethtown, PA - Onsite at Mars, Incorporated in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

Job Description:

This role is a key contributor within a Site Team to focus on delivering primarily a significant and sustained reduction of Non-Quality Costs (NQC) and secondly other elements within Product Conversion Cost (PCC), to levels consistent with similar technologies throughout the Global and world-class organizations. In that journey of improvement, it is key that this role drives improvement using Mars Supply Excellence tools. The incumbent will identify, diagnose, and drive NQC/PCC reduction initiatives and actions across RC Sites in North America. This role will understand losses and opportunities originated thru Loss Tree analysis and in-the-floor observations and translate those opportunities into activities/processes to drive continuous improvement.
What are we looking for?
Minimum

• 1- 3 years of experience with a Bachelors Degree OR5 years of Direct Manufacturing Site experience with HS Diploma.


• Functional knowledge of factory operations

• Bachelors Degree in in Engineering


• Certified in Problem Solving Methodologies or similar, Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt


• Deep functional knowledge in Data Collection and value stream mapping

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Utilize loss analysis methodology and site loss trees to identify, prioritize and execute Reliability opportunities


• Work with Site Industrial Engineer, Area Owners and Operational Leads to make losses visible and deliver the organizational capability to eliminate them. This includes building the problem-solving capability and the process to manage focused improvement initiative with cross-functional teams across the organization


• Provide leadership to deploy best practices and Regional initiatives

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.


• Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today


• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University


• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus

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