[Hiring] Manufacturing Excellence Expert @Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA

Role Description

The Manufacturing Excellence Expert accelerates operational performance across the Nestlé USA manufacturing network by developing autonomous teams, advancing TPM 7+4 and Industrial Performance systems, strengthening Daily Management Operations, eliminating chronic losses, and enabling data-driven decision making. The role coaches Factory Leadership Teams, Factory ME Managers, Production Managers, pillar leaders, and system owners through a hands-on “coach by doing” approach while scaling proven practices across factories.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Drive Manufacturing Strategy and Factory Execution
  • Translate market and category priorities into factory implementation roadmaps and governance routines.
  • Use business priorities, loss analysis, benchmarks, digital opportunities, and factory maturity to Focused Improvement principles.
  • Cascade priorities and measures across supported factories.
  • Factory/category scorecard.
  • Roadmap milestone delivery.
  • Governance routine health.
• Accelerate Operational Performance
  • Lead structured loss analysis, chronic loss elimination, Rapid Improvement, reliability, throughput, productivity, and cost improvement.
  • Coach teams to identify root causes and apply practical problem-solving and Industrial Performance methods.
  • eUPS and recurring-loss reduction.
  • Reliability, throughput, productivity, and cost improvement.
  • Rapid Improvement benefits sustained.
• Deploy TPM 7+4 and Daily Management
  • Advance TPM 7+4 maturity, standard work, pillar integration, and effective Factory and Local Leadership Team routines.
  • Evaluate system health and create focused gap-closure actions with factory leadership.
  • TPM maturity progression.
  • Health-check and assessment closure.
  • KSR / standard adherence.
• Build Critical Capability
  • Develop Factory ME Managers, Production Managers, and system owners through coaching, feedback, and experiential development.
  • Connect capability needs to training, expert networks, and supporting resources.
  • Capability plan adherence.
  • Leadership and pillar gap closure.
  • ME Manager development progress.
• Enable Digital and Data Excellence
  • Use manufacturing analytics and digital solutions to improve visibility, prioritize opportunities, and sustain results.
  • Maintain accurate manufacturing standards and master data, including capacities, capabilities, rates, efficiencies, and crewing.
  • Data and standards accuracy.
  • Digital adoption and use.
  • Rate review / master-data health.
• Scale Best Practices and Transformation
  • Assess maturity, reapply best practices, and scale proven operational and digital solutions across factories and categories.
  • Escalate cross-functional support needs and coordinate focused expert resources.
  • Replicated improvements.
  • Transformation milestone delivery.
  • Sustainability of results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or related discipline.

Requirements

• Progressive manufacturing experience with results in TPM, Lean/NCE, operational excellence, reliability, engineering, or continuous improvement.
• Experience leading complex performance improvement or transformation in a factory or multi-site environment.
• Strong coaching, facilitation, structured problem-solving, change leadership, and influence without authority.
• Advanced TPM / operational excellence and Industrial Performance knowledge.
• Strong analytical capability and experience converting manufacturing data into focused action.
• Digital manufacturing, performance analytics, project management, basic finance, and value-creation understanding.
• Behaviors: Influence with Integrity, Insight, Coach and Develop, Energize and Engage, Courage, and Enable Results Through Others.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentives.
• Competitive total rewards package, including a 401k with company match.
• Healthcare coverage.
• A broad range of other benefits.