Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.
You play an important role in the department, maintaining systems and performing tasks and activities that support our continuous improvement (CI) processes and culture. You help with data collection, ensure its accuracy, promote CI progress and keep track of the department KPI scorecards.
How you will contribute
You will:
- Provide training on CI tools and techniques. You will also help departments follow our established daily management system (DMS)
- Help teams collect data or extract it from the system to support CI activities and the DMS
- Facilitate root-cause analysis to address identified losses and departmental KPI scorecard gaps
- Establish new work standards to sustain improvement
- Train and qualify colleagues on CI tools and new work standards resulting from CI activities
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
- CI and high-performance work systems experience
- Strong facilitation and communication skills to support team discussions on CI activities
- Application of lean and/or TPM tools in a factory or operations environment
- Ability to manipulate and validate data in manual and automated systems
- Mastery of Excel and other data analytics tools
- Organized and disciplined to support and educate on the DMS process
- Logical and structured thinking to extract insights from data
More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
- Support the implementation of IL6S roll out at site, partnering with stake holders to fulfill capability needs and doing maturity assessments on all standard work processes.
- Lead and execute continuous improvement initiatives to eliminate top losses, improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and morale (SQDCM) across the site.
- Serve as a site Autonomous Maintenance Subject Matter Expert (SME), owning AM standards, deployment, and capability development in partnership with Manufacturing and Maintenance
- Apply Focused Improvement (FI) tools to identify, quantify, and prioritize losses, enabling teams and Process Engineers to execute effective loss elimination and deliver measurable results.
- Coach core team, technicians, and leaders on problem solving, AM practices, and standard work to build self-sufficiency at the line level.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to enable equipment reliability improvements and AM ownership, ensuring loss elimination efforts are aligned to standards and sustained over time.
- Ownership of the Waste and/or Cost Work Process including floor level loss intelligence, glidepath development, and system governance to enable prioritized loss elimination and sustained improvement.
What extra ingredients you will bring:
- Strong working knowledge of Continuous Improvement, Lean, TPM, and IL6S principles, with the ability to apply them in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated experience driving improvement initiatives using data, structured problem solving, and loss analysis.
- Hands-on understanding of equipment reliability, autonomous maintenance practices, and operator-based asset care.
- Ability to coach and influence at all levels of the organization, from frontline operators to site leadership.
- Proven capability to translate complex concepts into practical, easy-to-understand tools and standard work.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams
Education / Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Operations Management, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. (Preferred)
- Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in manufacturing, continuous improvement, maintenance, or operational excellence role.
- Demonstrated experience with Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, or IL6S methodologies (formal certifications preferred)
- Experience working in regulated manufacturing environment (food, CPG, or similar)
- Proficiency with data and analytics tools (Excel required; Power BI; Minitab, or similar tools preferred)
Job specific requirements:
- Regular presence on the production floor to observe processes, identify losses, and coach team in real time.
- Ability to support operations across shifts as needed, including early mornings, nights, or weekends during initiatives, startups, or breakdowns.
- Ability to analyze equipment and process performance using data, trends, and loss intelligence.
- Ability to facilitate workshops, training sessions, and structure problem-solving events
- Willingness to lead from the floor and work side-by-side with operators and technicians when needed.
Work schedule
- Primarily M-F regular business hours; however, flexibility is required to support business needs. Occasional off-shift support may be required during improvement initiatives, Small Group Activity (SGA) Event. Schedule will be adjusted as needed to ensure effective partnership with Operations and Maintenance across shifts.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.
Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.
Job Type
Regular
Process excellence
Business Capability
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Operations Management, or a related field, or equivalent education and relevant experience
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience in manufacturing, continuous improvement, maintenance, or operational excellence
- Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, or IL6S methodologies
- Formal Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, or IL6S certifications
- Experience working in a regulated manufacturing environment such as food or consumer packaged goods
- Proficiency with Excel
- Experience with Power BI, Minitab, or similar data analytics tools
- Continuous improvement and high-performance work systems experience
- Strong facilitation, communication, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to manipulate, validate, and analyze data in manual and automated systems
- Hands-on understanding of equipment reliability, autonomous maintenance, and operator-based asset care
- Ability to work regularly on the production floor and support early mornings, nights, or weekends as needed
Mondelēz International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) savings plan with employer matching and, in some cases, additional employer contributions. This is positioned as a strong component of the U.S. package across multiple role types, with plan terms noted for verification.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave provides paid bonding time for primary and secondary caregivers, alongside adoption and surrogacy assistance. Company materials specify a defined paid bonding period in the U.S., with additional birth-recovery leave where applicable.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage spans medical, dental, vision, prescription benefits, employee assistance, and other protections. The offering is described as broad, with multiple coverage options available.
Mondelēz International Insights
What We Do
Mondelēz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) is an American multinational confectionery, food, and beverage company based in Illinois which employs approximately 90,000 individuals around the world. Our Purpose Our purpose is to empower people to snack right. We will lead the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. Our Brands We’re leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. Our People Our 90,000+ colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Our Values and Leadership Commitments of Love our Consumers and Brands, Grow Every Day, and Do What's Right shapes our culture – what we believe in, stand for, and what guides our actions and decisions. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Our Strategies We are uniquely positioned to lead the future of snacking with strong leadership in our categories, an unparalleled portfolio of global and local brands, and a solid footprint in fast-growing markets. Aimed at delivering sustainable growth, our strategic plan is centered around three strategic priorities: • Growth: accelerate consumer-centric growth • Execution: drive operational excellence • Culture: build a winning growth culture
Why Work With Us
We offer passionate, energetic and curious people a huge choice of careers in our fun, fast-paced, global business. We operate in four regions: Asia, Middle East & Africa; Europe; Latin America; and North America. And in over 80 countries our people are united in a common purpose to empower people to snack right.
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