Key Accountabilities
Partner collaboratively with operations to analyze and develop recommendations regarding failures and lost production and identify and implement solutions to improve the system, standard work and processes.
Implement and audit leading operational practices and purposefully raise performance by monitoring key performance indicators and process capability.
Apply Lean Six Sigma, structured problem solving and root cause analysis to identify, prioritize, implement and verify continuous improvement and best practice initiatives.
Partner with maintenance on process-related reliability activities and implement production excellence and continuous improvement activities.
Serve as the technical knowledge holder for manufacturing processes, production technology and product/process interaction, supporting process development, product industrialization, scale-up and operational readiness, and provide technical expertise and support to a second manufacturing site in Belgium on a request or business requirement basis.
Implement new product development, including trial preparation and execution, scale-up, process validation, operational readiness and handover into standard production.
Partner collaboratively with cross-functional site and regional stakeholders, including operations, R&D, quality and commercial teams, to leverage resources, transfer knowledge and increase value captured throughout the portfolio of production excellence projects.
Independently solve complex process, quality and operational issues using technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, process engineering, food technology, food engineering or a related technical field
Minimum of two years of related work experience
Fluent Dutch and strong professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken
Other minimum qualifications may apply
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in process engineering within food, chocolate, confectionery, packaging or another continuous or semi-continuous manufacturing environment
Knowledge of product/process interaction, process scale-up, industrial trials and technology transfer
Lean Six Sigma, structured problem solving and root cause analysis capabilities
Experience analyzing manufacturing data and improving process capability, yield, waste, downtime and variable cost
Project management experience, including cross-functional improvement or industrialization projects
Experience with automation or manufacturing technology improvement projects
Knowledge of food safety, quality and management of change principles
French language proficiency is an advantage
Our Offer We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
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