Operations Capability Specialist
General Mills, Inc. manufactures some of the most beloved foods in the world, including Cheerios and Lucky Charms, Nature Valley granola bars, and Totino's pizza rolls. Blue Buffalo became part of General Mills in 2018, so even your pets love us too. We exist to make
food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best
— bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together.
Check out why General Mills Manufacturing is the place to grow a career:
Operations Capabilities Specialist - Hannibal, MO
The Operations Capabilities Specialist provides technical and process leadership, through equipment operation knowledge, and Daily Management System execution (Centerline, Clean Inspect Lubricate, Defect Handling, Intervention Report, Theory of Operations and
Learning) for the shift. They also serve as the on-shift mentor and onboarding plan contributor and guide for new team members. They enable the delivery of the platform operational plan.
Shift hours:
- Monday - Friday
- 5pm - 1:30am (Ability to be flexible)
Pay:
- $32.20 per hour
- Shift differential - Addtional $1.00 per hour for 2nd and 3rd shift
Benefits:
- 15 days (120 hours) of vacation annually and 11 paid holidays
- Great paid time off benefits
- 401(k) match
- Health Insurance- Including medical, dental and life
- And much more!
About our Location:
At our Hannibal manufacturing site, we make enough soup in a year to serve the entire world’s population one serving of soup! Our site offers employees career growth, as we currently have a lot of home-grown leadership in the plant. Along with this, due to being a
large plant, you have the opportunity to move to different product lines if you’re wanting to try something new. Our culture fosters room for growth and skill building. Our site also has an on site fitness center and coach and an on-site credit union. If you ask our
employees what they enjoy about our plant you will hear about our company picnic for employees and families, annual softball tournament, and employee recognition.
Our Products:
- Progresso soup, Old El Paso hard shells and tortillas, Old El Paso kits, Old El Paso seasonings, and Nature Valley bars.
What your day will look like:
- Creating high quality foods that are eaten EVERYDAY, NATIONWIDE
- Using TECHNOLOGY in an industry-leading facility
- Working with HIGH-LEVEL operators on EXPERIENCED teams that are looking to pass down their knowledge to workers WILLING TO LEARN and get paid doing it
- CHALLENGING yourself to get the JOB DONE RIGHT and gain skills to take with you to your next opportunity
- Support Food and Human through Safety 2.0 leadership principles and standards
- Build capability of shift team to maintain equipment at basic conditions (CIL, CL, DH and TOO, changeovers).
- Build, mentor and coach the team’s technical capability and when required, facilitate hands on demonstration to validate learning outcomes.
- Onboard new members to the shift team in partnership with other trainers as designed by the site’s learning program.
- Support troubleshooting and improvements on the shop floor using problem solving processes.
- Engage in Improvement Plan creation and execution
- Engage in daily loss elimination via shift DDS plan for the day
- Responsible to execute and monitor the learning plan.
- Enable shift team members to progress in their learning
- Create, maintain and improve learning materials and programs.
- Identify and address skill gaps on the team that are related to losses.
- Enable training by freeing up the right resources to develop knowledge and skill.
- Reinforce process rigor through checking for understanding and assessments.
- Facilitate change management for continuous improvement in technology and processes.
What you have to offer:
- Minimum of a high school diploma or GED
- At least 2 years of manufacturing experience, 5+ years of experience preferred
- Demonstrated leadership and working in a highly collaborative environment
- Success in driving results through process and teamwork
- Proven success reducing losses and improving performance in a manufacturing setting
- Demonstrated technical capability and knowledge of unit operations and machinery (at least one production platform). Qualified on key positions on the team OR Safe to Operate key positions on the team.
- Skilled at communicating between work groups, and with cross-functional resources
- Has experience pulling and analyzing data and leveraging data systems to interpret information (e.g.: MQIS, Maximo)
Physical requirements:
- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs
- Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling, and twisting over surfaces
- Ability to climb and/or work at heights while utilizing stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
- Ability to wear protective clothing and equipment such as safety shoes, face masks, safety glasses, hearing protection, a hard hat, a hair/beard net,and gloves when required
- Willing and able to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
- Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working conditions
- Willing to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery
- Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment
- Need to be able to work in a tobacco free environment
COMPANY OVERVIEW
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.