Sr. Continuous Improvement Specialist

Title: Sr. Continuous Improvement Specialist
Location: Paterson, 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 9,000+ 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
The Sr Continuous Improvement Specialist will provide focus and leadership to Continuous Improvement efforts and personnel development programs at Paterson. Coordinates activities across all departments to implement Continuous Improvements. Position reports to the Plant Manager.
Job Description

• Identify opportunities for Continuous Improvement. Utilize CI methods to implement projects and measure their operational and financial impact.
• Conduct process evaluation to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Provide data analysis to support CI projects, capital improvements and business opportunities.
• Identify and help development of new product opportunities.
• Conduct CI audits and evaluate effectiveness of sustained implementation of CI efforts.
• Coach and development of Team Leaders and Team Members to ensure their success.
• Work with departments to develop annual employee training plans. This should include technical skills, product or process specific training and leadership development opportunities.
• Coordinate site training activities throughout the year.
• Oversee Personal Qualification Requirement development, use, update and relevancy.
• Work with HR, Safety and departmental leadership to coordinate new employee orientation to be timely and effective.
• Site expert on Alchemy use, development and deployment.
• Develop and coordinate training plans for projects and new equipment.
• Develop and ensure the effectiveness of standard work across the facility based on top loss opportunities.
• This position will lead the implementation efforts of veLOCity through established methodology working closely with corporate veLOCity implementation team.
• Assist with setting up the pillars and getting them to functional status.
• Perform other duties and execute projects as directed by the Plant Manager to improve Quincy Operations.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; OR two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 3 years of manufacturing experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Exceptional MS Excel skills with ability to collect, summarize and analyze data.
• Understanding and applying safety policies, procedures, and practices for safety-related situations.
• Must be able to distinguish normal/abnormal situations.
• Must have excellent communication, interpersonal, problem solving and organizational skills.
• Stimulate Workplace engagement.
• Must be able to work weekends and all shifts with a strong work ethic and employment history.
• Must be a self-motivated individual that can multi-task and lead others.

Physical Environment/Demands:

• Ability to lift to 50 pounds and to stand, walk, bend, stoop, climb, twist, and turn frequently.
• Exposed to outdoor and indoor environments that vary from hot to cold, exposure for up to 14 hours per workday, including loud noise, excessive heat, cold, wet, slippery conditions, dirt, fumes, smoke, smells, and allergies.
• Must be able to work with hands and arms overhead and in or under the equipment.
• Requires manual dexterity, overall coordination, and good balance to work at ground level and in high places to perform job duties-the ability to operate work-related equipment.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Climbing to various heights via stairs or ladders to enter equipment regularly.

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-234349
Time Type: Full time
Anticipated Close Date: 05/13/2024
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: $79,240.00 - $118,860.00
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