Job Purpose
To enable optimization of resource (assets/labor/expenses) in his/her assigned value stream by establishing current performance, identifying opportunities, leading the assessment of efficiency and de bottlenecking projects, developing improvements and assisting with their implementation.
Key Responsibilities
Capacity & Resources management
- Initiates, conducts, and co-ordinates studies and analyses to identify and quantify process and product quality / capacity constraints, bottlenecks and opportunities. The jobholder will recommend ideal way forward.
- The jobholder is the responsible to highlight and recommend ways of balancing utilization across the value stream.
- Highlight areas of under- utilization.
- Implement and improve the changeover matrix, recommend min. economic batch sizes and production sequence. § Agreement of line staffing with Operations and periodic control and feedback.
- Review and approve proposed equipment layouts, operational designs and material flows, which impact direct cost elements, with a vision toward achieving plant long-term objectives.
- Maintain capacity analyses for each process function for evaluation of potential capacity constraints.
- Work with Planning team to secure a 12 month horizon for capacity, volume & utilization outlook for demand control cycle.
Performance Optimization
- Suggest Ideas to improve the performance of the value stream.
- Suggest and implement methods and modifications to optimize work place ergonomics for increased productivity
- Lead different activities that will improve the TRS of the value stream, (ex: SMED implementation)
- Lead & collaborate with operations & MTCE teams to Create TRS road Map per line for improvement
- Own Menu Card for the lines in scope
- Being Custodian on his/her lines performance KPI’s reporting in scope
- Work with different factory function to develop Y+1 targets based on bottom up calculations, current performance and following year ambition
- Act as a catalyst for improvement in vital red KPI’s that are below target.
Performance Measurement
- Develop, and agree standards for capacity (SOCs), labor (Labor Standards) and excesses with Ops/Eng. To be updated as a result of change and input result in annual operating plans.
- Administer performance vs. SOC and the labor standards in the Production Performance Monitoring Software.
- Evaluate and recommend information system needs for accumulating operational data and performing routine analysis. Interface with other groups to ensure that operational needs are addressed on a priority basis. Assure that the results can be easily understood and communicated to line associates and management on a timely basis.
- Lead the accuracy of the measures and liaise with operations / engineering.
- Generate the periodic scorecards.
- Creation and communication of additional factory reports and global benchmarking.
- Represent IE in the daily FMOS meetings.
- Lead the creation & continuous maintenance of lines in scope data base from “Score card, Menu Card, Line labors, Capacities & Speed file, performance history, P&L and financial status of PCC & ICP,
Value Leadership Ownership
- Design the conversion cost model for his/her VS products.
- Act as the engine for driving value leadership programs in his/her VS by working with different functions and stakeholders to come up and execute initiatives for cost optimization in production, logistics, quality, maintenance, primes, overheads, etc.
- Prepare 3 years road map of initiatives with a cross functional team to ensure production conversion cost reduction of minimum 5% year on year to dilute inflation
- On Annual Basis, he/she is responsible in leading a bench marking exercise for the technologies in scope with all other lines in the chocolate network and report it to the regional team
- Lead VLiC road map implementation for saving projects generated from other site using
Mars Supply Excellence
- He/she is a FI Pillar team member, and part of the FI Pillar plan implementation crew
- He / she is essential element champion on site wise – “Loss Analysis Essential Element”
- Responsible on Analyzing current factory performance as well as identifying opportunities with operations team in
current performance
- Identify & Co-lead factory team with 100% of the workshops and act as internal coach for Continuous improvement tools to reach site ambition
Context and Scope
The job owner needs to establish a close, but independent relationship with his/her Value Stream Manager and have strong peer relationships to deliver through his/her peers in the value stream team
1. Education & Professional Qualification
B.SC. in Engineering preferably in mechanical, industrial or electrical field
Professional qualification in lean is preferred
Professional qualification in six sigma methodology is preferred
2. Knowledge/Experience
2-6 years of experience in FMCG environment in the manufacturing field
Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
