What are the responsibilities and job description for the Continuous Improvement Lead position at Glanbia Foods?
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Date: May 28, 2026
Location: St Johns, MI, US, 48879
Company: Glanbia
Continuous Improvement Lead
Glanbia
Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey
MWC is a joint venture between Glanbia Nutritionals, Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and Select Milk Producers Inc.
The Opportunity
Lead the implementation and education of the Glanbia Performance System (GPS) to ensure that all plant employees have the tools and knowledge to improve and sustain a zero loss work culture that drives out injuries and ensures products are safe and meet quality specifications. Provide leadership to engage the plant in successfully progressing through the GPS phases and ensure delivery of our annual GPS saving goals. Develop organizational capabilities through culture change driven by GPS. Ensure GPS is fully integrated across organization to create “World Class” facilities.
Essential Functions
- Partner with site leadership to drive improvement in all plant True North measurements utilizing Focused Improvement, AM, UAM, and other GPS tools and processes. Partner with pillars across the site to ensure effective tools and processes to measure results in all pillar areas.
- Create and maintain robust plant communication tools and processes across the facility for all GPS activity including daily review boards, measurement boards, team progress boards and charts, etc.
- Facilitate the development of annual plant GPS pillar work plans.
- Continually conduct robust reviews and audits of site pillar plans and work streams to ensure a high level of pace and activity.
- Support GPS Boot Camp training events and work to develop the expertise, skill, and knowledge necessary to plan and execute boot camp trainings, facilitation, and report-outs
- Partner with the site T&D Pillar to identify GPS training needs for the plant and to deliver training solutions on GPS tools and processes to address plant needs and to ensure pace and process rigor.
- Ensure that all plant employees have opportunities for engagement and ownership in GPS programs and activities
- Act as the champion and subject matter expert for Root Cause Analysis. Ensure that all teams understand and continually drive to root cause. Be involved with and lead troubleshooting and problem solving exercises
- Partner with Daily Operations to sustain daily review and communication process through continual coaching and auditing of daily review processes across the plant.
- Champion One Right Way initiatives including education, centerlining and rate-lock, standard work documents and systems. Partner with the T&D pillar team and with positional trainers to ensure that One Right Way processes are followed and that documents are updated and trained out properly.
- Personally lead teams utilizing GPS processes
- Provide leadership and direction to all employees through direct and indirect leadership and coaching.
- Ensure plant meets stretch savings goals.
- Ensure troubleshooting capabilities or developed with all operators and maintenance personnel through teaching, coaching, and partnering on the use of GPS tools and processes
- Partner with the Maintenance Department to develop preventive maintenance schedules and make decisions regarding emergency maintenance
- Work with the plant Safety pillar team to ensure full application and measurement of GPS tools. Perform audits to ensure that the Glanbia injury and near miss review process is applied properly for all safety incidents.
- Each employee shall comply with occupational safety and health standards and all rules, regulations, and orders issued pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Act which are applicable to his/her own actions and conduct.
- Complies with all applicable food safety regulations and mandates (Safe Quality Foods, Food and Drug Admin, Pasteurized Milk Ordinance)
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Requires a Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; or a minimum of five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Understanding of GPS and similar continuous improvement methodologies.
Where and how you will work
The opportunity will be based in St Johns, MI.
What we would like to offer you!
The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.
About Glanbia
Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide
At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.
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