Manufacturing Excellence Expert

About the role

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Foods you love. Brands you trust. And a career that empowers you to grow.

At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives.

Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Market-level transformation leader and single point of contact for assigned factories/categories. Partners shoulder-to-shoulder with factory leadership to understand losses, leadership capability, and system health, then connects the right Manufacturing Excellence levers and resources.

Main Purpose of Job

The Manufacturing Excellence Expert accelerates operational performance across the Nestlé USA manufacturing network by developing autonomous teams, advancing TPM 7+4 and Industrial Performance systems, strengthening Daily Management Operations, eliminating chronic losses, and enabling data-driven decision making. The role coaches Factory Leadership Teams, Factory ME Managers, Production Managers, pillar leaders, and system owners through a hands-on “coach by doing” approach while scaling proven practices across factories.

Job Duties/responsibilities

• Drive Manufacturing Strategy and Factory Execution

• Translate market and category priorities into factory implementation roadmaps and governance routines.
• Use business priorities, loss analysis, benchmarks, digital opportunities, and factory maturity to Focused Improvement principles.
• Cascade priorities and measures across supported factories.

• Factory/category scorecard
• Roadmap milestone delivery
• Governance routine health
• Accelerate Operational Performance

Additional information

Lead structured loss analysis, chronic loss elimination, Rapid Improvement, reliability, throughput, productivity, and cost improvement.

Coach teams to identify root causes and apply practical problem-solving and Industrial Performance methods.

eUPS and recurring-loss reduction

Reliability, throughput, productivity, and cost improvement

Rapid Improvement benefits sustained

• Deploy TPM 7+4 and Daily Management

• Advance TPM 7+4 maturity, standard work, pillar integration, and effective Factory and Local Leadership Team routines.
• Evaluate system health and create focused gap-closure actions with factory leadership.

• TPM maturity progression
• Health-check and assessment closure
• KSR / standard adherence
• Build Critical Capability

• Develop Factory ME Managers, Production Managers, and system owners through coaching, feedback, and experiential development.
• Connect capability needs to training, expert networks, and supporting resources.

• Capability plan adherence
• Leadership and pillar gap closure
• ME Manager development progress
• Enable Digital and Data Excellence

• Use manufacturing analytics and digital solutions to improve visibility, prioritize opportunities, and sustain results.
• Maintain accurate manufacturing standards and master data, including capacities, capabilities, rates, efficiencies, and crewing.

• Data and standards accuracy
• Digital adoption and use
• Rate review / master-data health
• Scale Best Practices and Transformation

• Assess maturity, reapply best practices, and scale proven operational and digital solutions across factories and categories.
• Escalate cross-functional support needs and coordinate focused expert resources.

• Replicated improvements
• Transformation milestone delivery
• Sustainability of results
• KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Internal: VP Manufacturing, Manufacturing Excellence leadership, Factory Managers, Factory Leadership Teams, Factory ME Managers, Production, Maintenance/Engineering, Safety, Quality, Training & Learning, Digital, Finance, and category stakeholders.
• External: Suppliers, solution partners, and other external resources supporting factory performance and capability.

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or related discipline.

Experience & Skills Requirements

• Progressive manufacturing experience with results in TPM, Lean/NCE, operational excellence, reliability, engineering, or continuous improvement.
• Experience leading complex performance improvement or transformation in a factory or multi-site environment.
• Strong coaching, facilitation, structured problem-solving, change leadership, and influence without authority.
• Advanced TPM / operational excellence and Industrial Performance knowledge.
• Strong analytical capability and experience converting manufacturing data into focused action.
• Digital manufacturing, performance analytics, project management, basic finance, and value-creation understanding.
• Behaviors: Influence with Integrity, Insight, Coach and Develop, Energize and Engage, Courage, and Enable Results Through Others.

What Success Looks Like

• A trusted partner who delivers measurable performance improvement, develops capable leaders, advances TPM maturity, scales digital and operational best practices, and leaves factories with stronger systems that sustain results.
• *Position can be based in Solon, OH or work out of a home office preferably near a major U.S airport.

Salary

$108,000.00 to $140,000.00 per year

Pay and benefits

The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range.

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you’ll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.