ABOUT THE JOB

At Danone, Manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demand is a key driver for our plant teams. We have an opening for a Plant Industrialization Junior Manager in our West Jordan, Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah metro area) fresh yogurt manufacturing plant. In this role, will support the manufacturing operations in executing testing for validation and specification conformity of packaging, ingredients, and finished product. The primary focus will be on industrialization of packaging, product, productivity, innovation, and renovation projects at the manufacturing facility. The Junior PIM will work closely with the Plant Industrialization Manager on prioritization of projects and testing requirements.

Additionally in this role, you will:

• Collect, enter, analyze, and summarize test data as it relates to analytical and dimensional packaging and finished product tests.
• Operate and maintain analytical bench test equipment for packaging.
• Perform analysis according to plan of control and/or material non-conformities. Document findings, analyze the trends, and put together quality action plans.
• Support and lead innovation/renovation plant trials.
  • Ensures pre-trial tasks are completed and aligned to with clearly defined success criteria, internal and external trial resource availability, test material-ingredient arrival into plant and validate within specification.
  • Trial leader during the actual trial ensuring objectives are being met within approved downtime schedule and manage root cause / next steps if breakdowns occur.
  • Ensure post-trial tasks are completed and aligned to: provide Industrial results to be included in final R&D trial report including: success criteria results, data collection summary, recommendation on next steps/needs, and elevate any risks identified.
  • Other post-trial tasks: document trial material-ingredient consumption and provide cost summary of trial, sample/pallet shipment coordination, and ongoing test material inventory management.
  • Provide expertise and/or utilize subject matter experts in troubleshooting issues during trials and Stage 3 final validation.

• Coordinate all sample shipments of materials, white mass, etc. to external sites.

ABOUT YOU:

• The following combination of education and experience is required for this position:
• You have a Bachelor Degree in Food Science, Engineering, Microbiology, or related field, required.
• Non-degreed considered if exhibited 5+ years technical plant/analytical lab experience.
• You are exceptionally organized and self disciplined to acoomodate the management of multiple concurrent projects and priorities.
• You are adaptable to changing project scopes and priorities, and remain solution oriented through change.
• You have excellent communication, leadership and interpersonal skills.
• You have the ability to influence others and be a team player.
• You have the ability to develop/implement core work practices and standards that ensure excellence in quality.
• You have the ability to rapidly assess, analyze, and quickly resolve complicated quality problems with little initial information or direction and with varying degrees of ambiguity.
• You have the ability to multitask and manage priorities with allocating time to long-term, quality continuous improvement projects.
• You have strong “self-management” skills and be comfortable working with minimal supervision.
• You have established project management skills. Must bring leadership, interpersonal and communication skills required to interact with various levels of plant and corporate personnel and influence others.
• You are willing to work flexible schedules as needed to support 7-day per week, 24-hour per day production facilities. Work schedules could include occasional off-shift or weekend work.
• You are proficient in the use of MS Office programs.

ABOUT US:

At Danone North America, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world like Activia, Silk, Horizon Organic, Two Good, Oikos, evian, and Happy Family. You’ll be part of one of the largest Certified B Corp™ in the world, working together to make sure our brands create real benefits for people, communities, and the planet. We have 6,000+ employees across the U.S. and Canada. Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

Danone North America doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All hires to our team are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We recruit, employ, train and promote regardless of race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, genetic characteristic or any other protected status. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect.
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