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R&d Optimization Manager

2 months ago

Hatfield, United States Clemens Food Group LLC Full time

The R&D Optimization Manager is responsible for identifying and executing initiatives that will reduce cost, improve efficiency, increase capacity, improve quality and / or simplify our operations. Role must work collaboratively across all functions. Key partners include: Cost Accounting, Capital teams, operations, sales, FSQA, Process Engineering and Innovation R&D team. Manager is responsible for team KPIs and project health tracking. Pork Quality team report through R&D Optimization manager. This team is responsible for ensuring Pork Quality analytics are achieved and work with Operations and Country View Family Farms to resolve any gaps to target.

**Managerial & Leadership**
- Manages the R&D Optimization and Pork Quality teams to assure effectiveness of the team's activities, team member development and department growth
- Leads and manages a team of technical resources to effectively deliver on corporate growth & profitability initiatives
- Ability to generate & lead high profile technical initiatives, including planning, communication, and successful transition to ops
- Ensure all active projects have executional plans and accountability to schedule adherence
- Able to effectively build relationships & collaborate between cross functional departments
- Effectively leads team to obtain and maintain regulatory compliance (formula / label) and approvals
- Leads the products through Stage & Gate discovery, development, & launch processes - Supports the
- PIR change management systems
- Provide leadership to enhance food safety, quality, and costs of all products manufactured
- Provide leadership of projects to enhance the quality of the companies raw pork supply through enhancement of the live production operations and producer partner supply of the company
- Able to effectively build relationships & collaborate between cross functional departments and internal

**R&D Innovation Team**
- Effectively manages the Project Load
- Provides clear & regular communications & updates
- written & verbal
- Ensure appropriate commissioning and scaling to ensure successful hand-off
- Ability to track resourcing and work with innovation activity to re-balance team support across innovation and optimization initiatives
- Participate in process improvements efforts for processes owned by other departments

**Systems Execution**
- Identifies new optimization project and platform concepts which can deliver capacity, efficiency, quality, compliance, and cost improvements
- Proven track record of continuous improvement through process, product or productivity gains
- Works with vendors to identify innovative materials, equipment, and processes, evaluate and implement to create incremental improvements
- Provides input in all aspects of the company, supports company initiatives
- Act as front line technical communicator with internal & external partners & customers
- Owns and tracks optimization KPIs, Annual deliverables, and Quarterly deliverables
- Ensure post mortems occur and learnings are applied to our innovation and optimization processes
- As required, able to integrate and leverage capital system
- Ability to define and refine project scopes
- Able to draft and develop the team's ability to create and define effective testing plans. Ensure testing results are documented
- Own the Optimization process. Accountable for linkage to other processes as well as the need to improve our optimization process.

**Talent Management**
- Set expectations for direct reports
- Coach direct reports for growth
- Develop succession plan within team
- Recruit and onboard new team members into open positions
- Evaluate and implement team structure to match the vision for the R&D team
- Oversee and manage SOPs for role and role of direct report
- Assess and develop talent of team individually and collectively to improve capabilities

**Team CFG**
- Attend and participate in Regular Technical Team Meetings
- Attend re-occurring meetings for new product launches
- Attend and lead as necessary, R&D staff meeting
- Participate in on-boarding of team members in other departments
- Attend and participate in PIR meeting
- Participate & Lead as necessary in the KPI development with R&D team
- Represents company at community events and supports various company events and meetings in positive manner
- Qualifications:

- Possess in depth knowledge of meat and poultry products and science; applies knowledge to deliver product & process solutions.
- Knowledgeable with fresh & cured meats equipment, formulation, processes & packaging
- Sound understanding of Meat & Poultry Ingredient functionality
- Committed to quality
- has a solid foundation in Meat Plant GMP’s, HACCP, Specifications, & USDA/ FSIS Policies
- The ability to: interact with others in a positive manner; understand others objectively; connect with others on personal level; persuading others to a given point of view.
- The ability to take personal responsibility and action toward self

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