GRAPEFRUTE - refreshing recruitment for food, beverages, cosmetics & ingredients zoekt een Plant Continuous Improvement Lead in Sas van Gent, Zeeland, Netherlands | LinkedIn (2024)

DescriptionWant to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill's food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.

Job Purpose And ImpactThe Plant Continuous Improvement Lead will develop, implement and sustain process improvement initiatives. In this role, you will conduct continuous improvement activities with medium project cost and risk and activities with less defined processes for Cargill's Sas van Gent facility.

Key Accountabilities

• Directly provide updates on the project objectives, performance measures, issues and risks to partners and management
• As part of the site management team, you will lead the local training team
• Monitor and implement continuous improvement best practices
• Develop and handle continuous improvement plans for projects with low cost and risk to reach and sustain project goals
• Conduct organization readiness assessments, value realization, opportunity prioritization, resource evaluation and execute continuous improvement strategies that meet business needs
• Facilitate root cause analysis and Kaizens, as well as train plant members on continuous improvement tools
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision while escalating only the most difficult issues to appropriate staff
• Other duties as assigned

RequirementsQualificationsMinimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Knowledge of Dutch is an asset

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading and managing teams for high-performance
• Lean Six Sigma belt certification

BenefitsOur OfferWe provide a fast-paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salaries 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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