Sr Continuous Improvement Manager

At Schwan’s Company, we are driven to bring our customers delicious foods and reliable services. That's how we grew from a "one-man-and-a-truck" delivery business in rural Minnesota to a multibillion-dollar private company with thousands of team members nationwide. Our commitment to delicious foods shows in all we do, from careful ingredient selection and quality food making to delivering a great experience wherever you shop and eat.

The foods we make reach customers in many ways. We deliver directly to our customer's homes through our popular food-delivery business, offer well-known retail brands such as Red Baron®, Freschetta®, and Tony's® pizzas, Pagoda®snacks and appetizers, and Mrs. Smith's® and Edwards® desserts, and bring innovative food solutions to our customers in the food-service industry. To learn more, visit us at .

As a Senior Continuous Improvement Manager you will be responsible for contributing to best performance within the largest pizza plant in the world, and home to Red Baron and Tony’s brand frozen pizzas, by working within the plant and/or business unit to optimize safety, quality, and efficiency for operation processes.

• Identifies the top improvement opportunities and provides the appropriate data to ensure leadership consensus and buy-in.
• Provides data analytic information and coaching to the teams and individuals who will drive the delivery of improvements.
• Identifies and implements major improvement projects involving new processes, new technology, and/or new ingredients. Reduces material waste and labor increases cases per man hour and provides documented improvements.
• Works with each business unit and R&D on product pictures to define target for each product and examples of defects.
• Utilizes SAP data to disseminate what component scraps base quantities and labor should be reduced increased or remain the same providing information to the Engineering Change Coordinator so that production BOMs and routings can be updated.
• Utilizes data to recommend and prioritize process improvements.
• Evaluates SPC data for products and will tighten upper and lower control limits where possible. Uses X-bar and R-bar charts to prioritize process improvements for components not in control.
• Mentor coach and train line employees on how to make actual lasting improvements using the data from SAP, SPC, and monitoring.
• Empowers employees to propose and justify maintenance improvements R&D improvements etc. by determining financial saving and project prioritization based on time labor and financial investment.
• Utilizes the SAP data captured to prioritize process improvements in efficiency. Provide dollar loss information to substantiate capital improvements. Analyze, identify, and remove the bottle necks for increase line speed.