Associate Director, Facilities Infrastructure

3 weeks ago

Chicago, United States The Kraft Heinz Company Full time
Job Description

Job Summary

This is a role for someone who craves a global challenge balanced by the desire to be accountable for delivering against the model in the largest zone in Kraft Heinz. It is both a strategic and a tactical position. The Associate Director, Facilities Infrastructure has a wide scope, leading the strategic planning, project development, and infrastructure capex execution across our 31 manufacturing facilities in North America.

This senior role is crucial to ensuring that our key projects and strategic initiatives are successfully planned and delivered and that our manufacturing operations are supported by robust, efficient, and state-of-the-art infrastructure.

This position requires a strategic leader with strong project management skills, technical expertise, and the ability to coordinate cross-functional teams. Responsible for the long- and short-term infrastructure strategic plan, the ideal candidate will also ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget while adhering to the highest standards of safety and quality.

As part of the Kraft Heinz engineering center of excellence, this position provides a structured approach and a clear direction to the various engineering teams, responsible for developing and implementing project management methodologies, standards, tools, and continuous improvement processes across the organization, establishing a common project and program governance framework to ensure a structured and consistent ways of working for all major and key infrastructure capital projects within the North America zone.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

  • Work cross-functionally through a high-level of collaboration with various departments and levels, constantly aligning infrastructure key initiatives with the NA zone`s current and future priorities and objectives.
  • Develop and implement the infrastructure and plant fabric strategy to support current and future manufacturing needs.
  • Lead and manage infrastructure projects from conception through completion, including upgrades, expansions, and new installations.
  • Oversee the design and construction of manufacturing facilities, ensuring they meet regulatory standards, Kraft Heinz specifications and operational requirements.
  • Lead the front-end planning phase for future projects, leading condition assessments, development of basis of design and pre-project approval documents and business cases.
  • Oversee the implementation of new technologies and systems to improve infrastructure capabilities.
  • Collaborate with other senior leaders to align infrastructure plans with overall business strategy and goals.
  • Define and maintain KPI's and metrics to track and monitor performance.
  • Communicate with Operations, Supply Chain, Logistic, Procurement, R&D, Manufacturing Leadership, Plant Managers, CI and Engineering Managers, S&OP Planning and Financial analysts to coordinate projects and initiatives.
  • Develop and deliver effective tracking, reporting, and communication to provide business unit and leadership meaningful key progress results and status updates.
  • Provide guidance to the project teams and share best practices on project management.

Expected Experience & Required Skills

  • Bachelors of Science degree is required; preferably in safety management, safety engineering, or related field
  • Experience in environmental, health, and safety in a manufacturing environment
  • Experience working with external regulatory agencies, ergonomic analysis and application, behavior safety training and auditing
  • Ability to multitask and work in a team oriented fast-paced environment
  • Excellent interpersonal, organizational, presentation and facilitation skills
  • Well-developed written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to partner and communicate with all levels of the organization from senior leadership to hourly co-workers
  • Willingness to grow with the organization and commit to "doing what it takes" to attain aggressive organizational objectives
  • Must have the ability to exercise considerable judgment, problem solving and decision- making skills
  • Change management skills; ability to influence others and demonstrate managerial courage
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, or a related field. A master's degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in infrastructure management within a manufacturing environment, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
  • Able to use experience and judgement to appropriately identify and effectively manage risks and develop contingency plans to resolve, focusing on achieving results and setting challenging goals.
  • Strong analytical and management skills, including conflict & change management.
  • Strong working knowledge of pre-design and pre-construction, building systems/components and technology, contract management, project delivery methods and team building.
  • Exceptional program management skills to lead end-to-end partnership delivery across key projects.
  • Exceptional organization, communication, and time management skills. Ability and comfort with routinely communicating with project owners and executive sponsor regarding project/program status.
  • Ability to influence, working on and with technical and cross-functional or highly matrixed teams who do not report into this role to get things done.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a highly collaborative environment with heavy emphasis on teamwork.

Work Environment & Schedule

This position is considered a normal office environment with moderate travel to customer locations, stores, manufacturing facilities, etc., and demonstrated ability to work remotely with little supervision. Additionally, travel will be required up to 30% of the time.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain all duties or responsibilities that are required of the role. Duties or responsibilities may change or be added with or without notice.

Location(s)Chicago/Aon Center

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact NATAI@kraftheinz.com .

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