Operations Start-Up Leader (all gender)

Purpose of the position

Start-Up Management plays a key role in delivering successful projects in our factories. It includes preparing the organization for the upcoming change, addressing all requirements from Operations, ensuring people are adequately trained, leading through commissioning, qualification and verification of the equipment or process change and ensuring a smooth transition into ongoing production.

As part of the Group Engineering team, you will be responsible for driving the groupwide capability building activities for Start-Up Management and with this enable our Manufacturing colleagues in the Management Units to deliver vertical start-ups of production within all projects. We are looking for an expert with very good communication skills who has experience in manufacturing and start-ups of production and loves to work in an international team with colleagues from all Intersnack Management Units.

The position is located in Düsseldorf/Germany or in one of Intersnack’s European Management Units.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve Global Start-Up Management standards (templates, trainings, guidelines)
• Organize and conduct trainings and workshops with international colleagues
• Coach Regional Process Owners and Start-Up Leaders
• Support Regional Process Owners in getting qualified according to their skill targets and in rolling-out the Start-Up Management standards in their Management Units
• Support in Phase Assessments as part of our continuous improvement system (IWS – Intersnack Work System)
• Align process flows and interfaces with all applicable functions
• Develop capability measures and health checks, track capability status on Group level and drive actions to improve
• Drive groupwide Lessons Learned exchange for Start-Up Management

Education

University degree or vocational training in any technical field, e.g. Engineering, Food Technology, Industrial Mechanics, or similar

Experience

• 5+ years of relevant experience in manufacturing and start-ups of production, ideally in FMCG sector, ideally as Start-Up Leader in Capital Expenditure projects
• Experience as trainer and coach

Skills required for the job

• Very good Production Start-Up Management knowledge
• Very good communication, training and coaching competency
• Good understanding of continuous improvement methodologies
• Good Project Management knowledge
• Structured, thorough and reliable way of working
• Self-driven and a positive “can do” approach with the ambition to get things done
• Process and long-term-solutions oriented thinking
• Very good MS Office skills
• Fluent spoken and written English is a must, additional language skills are beneficial
• Domestic and international travel up to 50% of the time is possible

Working with us

Intersnack has become one of Europe’s leading savoury snacks producers by ‘creating happy snacking moments’ in people’s lives. Being privately owned, we operate with a long-term view and commit ourselves to a more sustainable world. Successful and sustainably growing, our turnover in 2023 was almost €4,3bn. We are now present in more than 30 countries across Europe and beyond. We have 12 regional Management Units, 43 production sites and a total workforce of approximately 15,000 people. Our brand portfolio includes strong brands such as funny-frisch, Chio, POM-BÄR, McCoy's, MAARUD, Estrella, Vico, ültje and Kelly's.

What we will offer

An enjoyable, broad and fulfilling role with one of Europe’s biggest savory snacks producers. The chance to grow in an environment that values teamwork and collaboration, as well recognized to your individuality, welcoming your views, and celebrating your growth. Naturally we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, but also the opportunity to stand out for your professionalism and performance, moving forward in a challenging environment that supports each individual team member to achieve their very best. And a place to securely develop your career as part of a business that cares about the wellbeing of all its people and understands that work-life balance is fundamental to success. At Intersnack, we value and cherish diversity for the power and potential it creates. We have extraordinary team spirit, empower our people to take ownership for what they do and challenge each other to improve. Because we know that, to become a big player, you need to master being a team player first.

Our values and behaviors are important to how we work, and they define our culture, they are:

Thinking responsibly

Acting entrepreneurially

Growing together

Please upload your application documents in English only!

PLEASE NOTE: for non-EU applicants, a valid work and residence permit is a prerequisite for this post.