Process Line Leader/Velocity

Title: Process Line Leader/veLOCity

Location: Warden, WA

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

To eliminate process losses on equipment or areas and drive standards and problem solving

Job Description

• To identify, prioritize and eliminate losses associated with their line

• To build the process capability & control. (Owns IPS, UPS, data analytics)

• To provide feedback to design and lead smart standardization deployment.

• Coaches line operating teams on the technical understanding of the process

• To define the equipment standards for their line and collaborate with other team members.

• To lead the change management & validation processes for their line

• To lead and build the capability of process failures technical troubleshooting.

• Collaborate with Line Leaders and Equipment Owners to develop new standards.

• Owns the CL's, RCO and DMS

• Design, implement and maintain systems to collect and analyze data for critical product and process parameters.

• Use this data to identify losses.

• Prioritize and communicate improvement opportunities.

• Eliminate or reduce (prioritized) losses through making process or work system changes.

• Participate in the daily direction-setting process - report results, flag issues and request resources.

• Standardize equipment and work processes. Own the change management system for a designated process. Update process control strategies and operating procedures as changes occur.

• Share and reapply learning across processes, modules, and plants.

• Prepare and give training on process/equipment changes.

• Develop him/ herself through participating in corporate and external training.

• Take part on planned stops and RCO's flowing to the line as needed.

• Standardize and improve RCO's

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Spend 80% of his/her time on the floor.

• Become a technical expert for a designated process.

• Qualify on all basic operating roles.

• Coach and collaborate with the line teams and site and regional equipment or process owners

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university and 3-5 years related experience in Manufacturing preferred.

• Experience in statistical data analysis and lean manufacturing principles

• Leadership skills to work as a mentor to peers and subordinates.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• High level of proficiency working with Excel

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness

• Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services - mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Job Requisition ID: Req-255108

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 08/25/2024

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $67,480.00 - $101,200.00

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law