Job Title:  Manufacturing Area Leader

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Job Number #165513 - Richmond, Indiana, United States

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
 

Job Summary

The Manufacturing Area Leader is responsible for effectively managing all functions related to conversion production and maintenance activities within the Richmond plant and developing cross-functional partnerships to improve the plant’s safety, quality, productivity, and reliability.  The Area Leader will be accountable for maintaining effective KPIs, driving manufacturing excellence standards, and leading processing improvements in the areas of reliability, waste, product quality, safety, and cost per pound. 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage the continuous improvement systems as established by manufacturing excellence guidelines and standards by conducting regular data driven CI reviews, coordinating cross-functional evaluations of CI projects through ROI, Continuous Improvement Plans (CIP) and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and lead CI project timelines to achieve optimization initiatives.

• Work as part of the Autonomous Maintenance Steering Team to develop and implement the guidelines and standards of a technician driven AM program.

• Establish and maintain effective Key Performance Indicator (KPI) measurements for the plant, tracking and reporting tools, and establish corrective action for continuous improvement.

• Manage the maintenance functions in the conversion areas of the facility to effectively schedule and implement maintenance work orders, preventative maintenance (PM) plans as well as autonomous maintenance (AM) activities while leveraging the SAP PM System and work order process.  

• Lead the development of process improvements and optimization (throughput, yield, quality, and cost). 

• Assist in achievement of plant KPI’s by working with Team Leaders to translate business needs into daily operations and creation of technical solutions. 

• Establish, maintain, audit and analyze the OPERA data structure.

• Empower teams by way of training, information sharing, coaching, feedback, appraisals and delegation, to ensure the development of people, skills, teams and organizational capabilities.

• Support plant and Quality Assurance in identifying quality defects and driving resolution internally and with suppliers to improve material quality.

• Implement specific product, material, process and package standardization and simplification margin improvement projects and integrate external continuous improvement best practices.

• Responsible for managing maintenance expenditure budgets and delivering continuous improvement projects that reduce manufacturing variances.

• Support implementation of Quality Assurance and Food Safety initiatives. Ensure personnel adhere to Hill’s policies, safety standards, and Good Manufacturing Practices, including Quality Assurance and Food Safety.

Basic qualifications include:  

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Mechanical Engineering, Food Science, Chemical, Industrial, Supply Chain Management or related field.

• Minimum of 2 years supervisory experience of production and process equipment, preferably in a processing industry such as food, chemicals or pharmaceuticals.

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in Plant Wide Systems working with manufacturing excellence Guidelines, Lean Manufacturing or Continuous Improvement Plans and establishing Key Performance Indicators.

Preferred qualifications include: 

• Operations Team Leader experience

• Food Related Production Experience

• Lean Six Sigma certified

• Technical proficiency including:

  • Experience using ROI, Continuous Improvement Tools or FMEA tools

  • Training others in conflict resolution 

  • Presentation skills 

  • Understanding of financial measures 

  • SAP system

  • Standards, weights and measure requirements

  • AIB, FDA, USDA and other regulatory agency design requirements

  • Proficient in Statistical Process Control, CPk and Continuous Improvement Methodologies

Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $94,000.00 - $133,000.00 USD

Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles.

Benefits: Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employee's hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.

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Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve —and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

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