Ocean Spray is hiring a Plant Performance Excellence Manager at our Markham, Washington location! We’re a team of farmers, thinkers, creators, and doers. Whatever your title, whatever your role — it always comes back to this: we’re a farmer-owned co-op where everyone rolls up their sleeves to get the job done. Three maverick farmers started it all — and we’ve been making our own way ever since.

The Plant Performance Excellence Manager is a highly visible role within the plant leadership team and has tremendous growth opportunities within the organization. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the plant’s operational efficiencies, improving business performance, reducing costs, and organizational culture change. You will support cost growth and productivity initiatives, develop sustainable best practices, and support activities that exceed target metrics. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to standardize and institutionalize continuous improvement methods by deploying the Ocean Spray Manufacturing System (OSMS).

A Day in the Life...

• Identify plant performance improvement opportunities (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Morale)
• Perform process studies, data collection, and cost analysis to quantify business impact and create opportunity pipelines
• Prioritize PE projects based on business needs and data alignment
• Lead Kaizen initiatives for critical performance improvement projects (Throughput, Downtime, Yield, Changeover, Cleaning, Startup, etc.) and foundation-building efforts using Ocean Spray Manufacturing (OSMS) methodologies
• Execute plant Cost Savings (CSI) projects to meet or exceed the target
• Execute site-specific Ocean Spray Manufacturing System elements with linkage to ops performance improvement
• Teach and mentor plant frontline associates about problem-solving mindset, tools, and techniques
• Serve as a change agent for developing organic Kaizen culture at the plant through cross functional team meetings focused on efficiency improvement and cost savings projects
• Support manufacturing networkwide standardization efforts and share best practices
• Support other duties as needed and directed

What We Are Looking For:

• ​​Minimum 5 years of experience in Food/Beverage/Pharmaceutical or related industry, with 1 in a supervisor or manager role
• ​​Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business Administration or Food Science, or equivalent experience
• ​​Excellent understanding of manufacturing operations with dedication to the concepts of continuous improvement
• ​​Proficient in Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Access database functions and/or Minitab or other statistical analysis software
• ​​Ability to manage multiple projects and Kaizen events simultaneously
• ​​Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• ​​Able to work cross-functionally in team environment and at various organizational levels
• Excellent facilitation, training, and presentation skills
• Statistical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated project management experience

Education:

Bachelor's or University Degree (Preferred)

Work Experience:

Years of Experience: Minimum of 5 Years

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $110,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Relocate:

• Aberdeen, WA: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person