Associate Manufacturing Platform Manager - Covington, GA
Full Time
Covington, GA 30014
Posted
Job description
Job Description:
The General Mills Covington plant is a high-performing/flexible work system that operates 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Our team is comprised of highly skilled technicians, many of whom hold post-secondary and graduate school degrees. The Covington plant has two non-union plants on the property, Covington West and Covington East, combined there are ~ 475 employees who work here. The Covington plant is a key plant for General Mills producing a number of beloved General Mills cereals such as Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Puffs and a variety of our Cheerios cereals.
OVERVIEW
The Associate Manufacturing Platform Manager, internally called a Platform Lead, is overall accountable for the 24-hour results of one of our cereal platforms. They will be responsible for providing business leadership and direction through Zero Loss Culture on a designated site platform within the Cereal Morning Foods Operating Unit business. Owns the development of their team’s technical and leadership capability to build a high performing team. Most of the day will be spent on the floor coaching and removing barriers for their team. This leader will manage 4 salaried direct reports and indirectly ~80 wage employees across all shifts.
The General Mills Covington plant is a high-performing/flexible work system that operates 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Our team is comprised of highly skilled technicians, many of whom hold post-secondary and graduate school degrees. The Covington plant has two non-union plants on the property, Covington West and Covington East, combined there are ~ 475 employees who work here. The Covington plant is a key plant for General Mills producing a number of beloved General Mills cereals such as Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Puffs and a variety of our Cheerios cereals.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Role models Engaging Leader behaviors via ILEAD and holds the direct reports accountable to drive out cultural losses to build a high performing team
- Accountable for the 24-hour results of the platform
- Owns capability development and career coaching of the platform team to identify, measure and drive out losses to deliver targeted line / system results by providing coaching, support, direction and ongoing feedback. Specifically:
- Process Leader(s)
- Maintenance Leader(s)
- Technician Team Leaders
- Technicians*
- Own human safety, food safety, quality results, sanitation execution, including the MSS of the platform area
- Own and coach Daily Direction Setting (DDS) process for the platform and coach DDS for the line.
- Own several daily management systems across the platform and accountable to coach / develop technician system owners who own these systems across the platform shifts in partnership with the Technician Team Leader: Human Safety and Environment, Food Safety and Quality, MSS, 5S, Clean-Inspect-Lubrication, Training
- Single point of ownership of the annual and 90-Day improvement plan to deliver the glidepath.
- Owns the platform’s capability building plan/strategic training matrix and to coach their Technician Team Leaders to execute the team members’ training plans as per the Technician Career System expectations.
- Execute Manager of People Expectations: Support the priorities and development plans for their direct reports
- Performance Management for direct reports and where applicable technicians *
- Owns team effectiveness of direct reports and addresses gaps/concerns.
- Foster an inclusive environment where people work together to solve problems.
- Put in place appropriate escalation processes depending on current state skill level of each team within the platform to provide Technician Team Leaders the freedom to operate and manage their day-to-day shift performance.
- Partner with Engineering organization on capital and product commercialization.
- Partners with FSQ to reduce risks and improve food safety and quality results in own platform (including sanitation)
- Follow personal development plan to:
- Build platform technical skills and where applicable support trainer and qualifier needs via the Technician Career System
- Develop deep understanding of all DMS (CIL, PCL, DH, BE, etc.) to optimize coaching span of influence and loss analysis
- Apply the Reward and Recognition System expectations at the individual and team level
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- High School Diploma/GED
- Minimum 2 years of related manufacturing experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred
- 5+ years related experience
- Working knowledge of data systems including MAXIMO, MQIS, INSQL, and GSTEMS.
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