Mars Food Science Product Implementation Technology – Apply Online
Royal Canin seeks to continuously improve its products and its business operations. These improvements have to be identified and executed while maintaining current production levels and keeping the associates and product safety. The plant is a very fast-paced and demanding environment with continuously changing priorities.
Job Title: Process and Product Implementation Tech
Location Fremont, Nebraska, United States
Category Supply Chain & Engineering
Job ID: 1462341
Education & Professional Qualification
- B.S. in Food Science, Chemistry, or Engineering Preferred with 1-3 years’ experience or around 5 years of manufacturing experience with HS Diploma.
- Physical ability to climb stairs, work in elevated temperature and humidity environments, for extended length shifts on occasion
35 lb lifting minimum. - Ability to use simple tools to do small mechanical jobs.
Knowledge/Experience
- Identifying continuous improvement opportunities and suggesting improvements
Project management. - Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control, Lean management tools
What can you expect from Mars?
- The opportunity to learn, develop and take charge of your own career.
- An industry-competitive salary and benefits package.
- To be respected and valued.
- The Five Principles are at the center of every decision.
- To coordinate with the central R&D team to execute new products and projects in the factory.
- To participate in continuous improvement in the Extrusion and Mixing workshops with the goal of maximizing safety, efficiency, and waste through implementations of new technologies and processes.
- These improvements are focused on the areas of equipment utilization, waste generation, product performance, human safety, and food safety. The PPI will complete all relevant documentation required by Mars safety, quality and food safety, and ISO change management.
The PPI acts as the expert on how the process is supposed to function when communicating to stakeholders outside of the Process team. They will participate in teams to identify root causes in non-conforming products and implement ways to improve the product. They will also participate in troubleshooting teams for critical equipment breakdowns and help schedule the proper preventive maintenance associated with the equipment.
What would your key responsibilities be?
- Product upgrade = KQA and Factory feedback for a product upgrade is responsible for providing to the New Product project team the assessment of existing production performance, root cause analysis of issues, and analysis of the complaints at a factory level.
- MRA of new raw materials
- Test-run (process + packaging) for new products Is responsible for an industrial test run (preparation, realization, validation of the CSF, reporting), organizes the GO/NO GO with Industrialization engineer, formulation, and factories.
- Operational launch (provide specifications, system updates, team communications)
Daily product review/evaluation. Responsible for the first production until Qualification has been achieved and the first full production has been run successfully. - Qualification review + PDCA. Responsible for qualification review preparation for the factory (sampling, collecting analytical results) Is responsible for the product PDCA updates
New Process Implementation-
- Technical risk assessment with Q&FS team
- Commissioning with Engineering team
- Work instruction
- Development of Test Plans
- Development and delivery of training for associates
- Product upgrade = KQA and Factory feedback For product upgrade is responsible for providing to the New Product project team the assessment of existing production performance, root cause analysis of issues and analysis of the complaints at a factory level.
- MRA of new raw materials
- Test-run (process + packaging) for new products Is responsible for an industrial test run (preparation, realization, validation of the CSF, reporting), organizes the GO/NO GO with Industrialization engineer, formulation, and factories.
- Operational launch (provide specifications, system updates, team communications)
- Daily product review/evaluation. Responsible for the first production until Qualification has been achieved and the first full production has been run successfully.
Qualification review + PDCA. Responsible for qualification review preparation for the factory (sampling, collecting analytical results) Is responsible for the product PDCA updates
Investigate waste generation causes and propose solutions to reduce them. Use of Six Sigma, SPC, and other Lean Tools
Assess equipment utilization with cross-functional teams to increase plant productivity.
Implement continuous improvement projects in the area of food safety, ergonomic, and product performance.
Create standard operating conditions and Centerlines for each product.
Coordinates all PPI tasks to support R&D strategies for growth, quality and efficiency.
Collaborates with area coordinator, IE, AML, and operations teams for Continuous Improvement
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