Director, Corporate Operational Excellence
Headquartered in Dieppe, New Brunswick, the J.D. Irving, Limited Moncton-based companies have plants, terminals, operations and sales offices throughout Canada and in the United States. We are a dynamic, rapidly growing and successful group with diverse interests. We're proud to be part of the larger J.D. Irving Group of Companies, a family-owned business whose commitment to quality products and services dates back over 140 years.
Reporting to the Vice President of Environment, Health, Safety and Operational Excellence, the Director of Operational Excellence will lead the OPEX programs across Moncton-based companies. The primary responsibility of this role is to deploy strategy and systems which ensures the business leaders deliver targeted savings, capacity creation, and capability development in focused long-term plans.
As leader of the OPEX team, the director and respective team members will facilitate the corporate OPEX strategy, goals, practices, and ensure the annual check and adjust for overall delivery of cost savings across Moncton-based companies. They will also work closely with operations leaders and GMs to develop and support continuous improvement programs and best practice deployment within the Irving Management System.
Successful Candidate will possess the following qualifications or relevant experience:
- University or College degree with a concentration in Engineering, Operations, or Business.
- Certified Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt (minimum) or equivalent with a demonstrated understanding of Lean principles (Black Belt or Master Black Belt preferred).
- Minimum of eight years of experience in business operations and/or manufacturing plant leadership;
- Experience in Change Management (Prosci® AKDAR experience and/or certification preferred).
- Project and/or program management experience.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to direct and engage team members and influence other executive stakeholders across all levels of leadership and multiple company divisions.
- Strong time management, presentation, communication and organizational skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate the OPEX Program including the goal establishment and tracking of full potential value delivery of all J.D. Irving Moncton-based companies (including Irving Consumer Products, Midland, Irving Personal Care, Protrans, Cavendish Farms and Cavendish Agri Services).
- Collaborate and coordinate progress to OPEX long-term goals for savings, capacity generation, and capability development through regular CEO and company engagement cadence aligned with the annual strategy and budget progress.
- Develop short- and long-term strategies for increasing the capacity of the business to improve maturity in the Irving Management System to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and capacity.
- Ensure that company plans include resourcing and capability building training (CI belting and other) which supports delivery of operational excellence goals.
- Establish measurable KPIs across divisions which support the achievement of operational excellence goals.
- Best practice deployment which supports and expands the adoption of technology including J.D. Irving corporate and industry-wide best practices that support the pursuit of world-class performance.
- Support the development and use of industry benchmarking for OPEX key performance indicators (KPIs) which relate to each company’s products and services in order to establish ‘full-potential’ target setting
Ideally based in Dieppe, New Brunswick with required travel and potential long-term opportunities to move to other J.D. Irving, Limited sites.
To Apply for this Career Opportunity:
Please complete the online application form. An up-to-date resume of experience and education is required.
We thank all candidates for their interest, however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
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