Cooper Farms is a family-owned farm and food company based in Northwest Ohio for more than 85 years. A commitment to teamwork and quality has made us one of the top turkey, hog and egg companies in the U.S. and awarded the company and its team an excellent reputation. We have divisions in Mercer, Van Wert and Paulding Counties in Ohio and are looking for a Strategic Improvement Manager to join our team.
The overall objective of this role is to increase the bottom line of all divisions across the company through strategic improvements focusing on eliminating waste, increasing teamwork, and building leadership expertise.
LOCATION: Work with any division
SHIFT HOURS: Monday through Friday
STARTING RATE: Commensurate with experience
ADDITIONAL PAY: Monthly profit-sharing bonuses (dependent upon company performance)
Job Functions:
- Facilitate Master Business Planning and KPI Goal setting in a way that builds commitment, teamwork, and skill in leaders along the way
- Work across Cooper Farms divisions in leading teams to find ways to optimize systems, processes, and procedures and to increase capacity, improve quality, and/or better procedures to keep Team Members safe.
- Organize and coordinate time studies, design experiments, Root Cause Analysis and After-Action Reviews. Lead those efforts in a way that builds capacity in others to complete them in the future with excellence across the company.
- Review metrics and reports across the company and work with the metric owners to simplify and standardize reports.