Mars Inc.
Focused Improvement Specialist
USA-South Dakota-North Sioux City · Mid
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About the role
- The Site Focused Improvement Specialist is responsible for driving structured loss elimination and sustainable performance improvement across the manufacturing site.
- This role focuses on identifying operational losses, solving root causes, and implementing practical improvements that reduce waste, improve quality, increase throughput, and strengthen cost performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support focused improvement initiatives to reduce waste, quality losses, downtime, production inefficiencies, and other operational cost drivers.
- Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Planning, Continuous Improvement, and Industrial Engineering teams to convert identified losses into clear action plans and measurable improvement projects.
- Support site performance improvement by making losses visible, prioritizing high-impact opportunities, and driving actions to completion.
- Work directly with line teams, supervisors, and area owners to validate problems at the source and build ownership for improvement actions.
- Help develop and sustain standards, routines, controls, and best practices that prevent recurrence of losses.
Requirements
- 2 to 3+ years of experience in manufacturing, operations, continuous improvement, quality, engineering, maintenance, production support, or industrial engineering.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, production systems, and performance loss drivers.
- Ability to collect, analyze, and translate operational data into practical improvement actions.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing KPIs such as waste, scrap, downtime, throughput, efficiency, quality losses, labor productivity, schedule adherence, or equipment performance.
Nice to have
- Experience in food, beverage, consumer products, aerospace, automotive, pharmaceutical, packaging, logistics, or regulated manufacturing environments.
- Bachelor's degree within Supply Chain function.
- Green Belt, Black Belt, Lean, TPM, Six Sigma, or equivalent continuous improvement certification.
- Experience with SPC, production reporting systems, loss trees, waste reporting, value stream mapping, or daily management systems.
- Experience supporting continuous improvement, operational excellence, focused improvement, TPM, or manufacturing excellence programs.
- Strong ability to influence laterally in a relationship-based team environment.
- Use structured problem-solving tools such as RCA, DMAIC, 5 Why, fishbone, Pareto analysis, A3, value stream mapping, and floor observations to identify and eliminate root causes.
- Analyze production data, waste reports, downtime trends, quality losses, process performance, and other operational KPIs to identify recurring issues and improvement opportunities.
Skills
- Experience using structured problem-solving tools such as RCA, DMAIC, 5 Why, fishbone, A3, or similar methodologies.
Compensation
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus
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