* Experience Years: 3-5 Years of Experience
* Employee Type: Regular
* Remote Type: Onsite
About the Opportunity
As a Lean Distribution Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing organizational performance by analyzing, maintaining, and improving processes. Your focus will be on driving efficiency, reducing waste, and implementing performance management culture within our own coolers and 3PL warehouses.
Responsibilities
* Development of technical solutions or new processes to improve the performance of the current lines or update existing ones to incorporate customer requirements.
* Define or update SOPs (standard operating procedures) to secure freshness of our fruit.
* Monitor performance on warehouses and coolers. Propose and lead the implementation of solutions to improve performance such as Intelli Temp monitoring, sliding doors upgrade, etc.
* Provide subject matter guidance to cooler operational teams.
* Analyze existing warehouse processes and identify areas for improvement.
* Drive collaboration with the Operations team to improve performance.
* Design an efficient warehouse layout to optimize product flow and storage.
* Implement quality controls to prevent defects (in packaging and fruit) and monitor temperature consistency.
* Define maintenance programs, both autonomous and preventive.
* Train the teams on new processes implemented and monitor adherence.
* Audit adherence to SOPs.
* Create and implement a visual management plan.
* Partner with the Aurora team for the design of new warehouse and manufacturing processes.
* Partner with external organizations and suppliers to stay up-to-date in process optimization and visual management tools.
* Contribute to building a culture of Lean Management within the Supply Chain team.
Candidate Profile
We're excited to hear from applicants who are passionate about operational excellence, thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and have the following skills and experience:
* Proven experience in leading continuous improvement activities in a fresh produce or FMCG environment.
* Experience in project management.
* A good understanding of Lean CI tools and principles such as Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Root Cause Analysis & 7 Wastes.
* Excellent communication skills across all levels with the ability to engage and influence.
* Excellent organizational and planning skills.
* Lean certification is highly desirable.
About Driscoll's
Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful, and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion, and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world.
Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – meaning no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high-quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners.
Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries.
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