Continuous Improvement Manager – FI

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💵 $109k - $159k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Conagra Brands

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1919

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

Food & Beverage • Manufacturing

Conagra Brands is a major packaged foods company that develops, manufactures, and markets a wide portfolio of consumer food brands, including frozen meals, snacks, baking mixes, and other grocery products. The company operates production plants across the U. S. (and internationally), manages more than 100 brands, and emphasizes product development, manufacturing, and consumer-facing packaged goods.

📋 Description

• Lead and support Focused Improvement initiatives aligned with network and enterprise objectives within the Industrial Engineering center of excellence. • Partner with manufacturing sites to identify, prioritize, and eliminate chronic losses across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity. • Analyze multi‑site manufacturing data to identify trends, loss opportunities, and improvement priorities across multiple facilities. • Apply structured problem‑solving methodologies such as Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control; Statistical Process Control; and Design of Experiments to deliver sustainable improvements. • Coach site leaders and cross‑functional teams in Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, Unified Problem Solving, Work Process Improvement, Value Stream Mapping, loss trees, and root cause analysis. • Develop financial justifications for optimization initiatives and capital projects, including return on investment and cost‑savings validation. • Contribute to cross‑site initiatives focused on line performance, throughput, labor utilization, and equipment effectiveness. • Collaborate with other Manufacturing Excellence pillars to align scope, share best practices, and prevent duplication of effort. • Support the development of enterprise toolkits, playbooks, and standardized processes that enable knowledge transfer across the network. • Partner with senior Focused Improvement leadership to assess, prioritize, and justify network‑wide improvement and capital opportunities. • Communicate progress, results, and insights to site leadership and senior management audiences.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. • 7+ years of Industrial Engineering or continuous improvement experience in a manufacturing or supply chain environment. • 4+ years of experience leading teams, programs, or large‑scale initiatives within manufacturing. • Experience driving Total Productive Maintenance‑based continuous improvement initiatives in a plant environment. • Demonstrated success developing and delivering continuous improvement programs that generate measurable, scalable value. • Experience influencing and leading cross‑functional teams without direct reporting relationships. • Strong financial acumen, including development of project cost justifications and capital evaluations. • Experience presenting complex information to large audiences, including senior leadership. • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Power BI for analysis and visualization and other related systems. • Hands‑on experience with Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, Unified Problem Solving, and Work Process Improvement tools. • Experience with Value Stream Mapping, line balancing, Statistical Process Control, and Design of Experiments. • Manufacturing plant experience leading and supporting continuous improvement across multiple loss areas. • Willingness to travel 60% or more to manufacturing sites depending on projects and proximity to plant locations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement • Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement • Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities