Manufacturing Excellence Manager

Nestle

Manufacturing Excellence Manager at Nestlé Health Science responsible for factory performance improvement. Leading NCE projects and collaborating with leadership to achieve manufacturing excellence.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeBohemia • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $125,000 - $145,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for development, competence building, and health of Industrial Performance systems & routines, including Labor utilization studies
Accountable for data reliability, SAP BOM/Master Data, planning rate reviews, Asset Intensity and utilization systems, Nestle Standards for Manufacturing Performance
Leads development of Strategic plan (OMP) and improvement strategy in the Factory
Ensures the right cascading of priorities and measures from the Market to the factory
Defines and embeds NCE projects and initiatives into the Factory objectives and align Factory Leadership Team towards the plan
Establishes and drives effective Factory governance to ensure that NCE implementation contributes to delivering business results
Supports Factory competency building plan that ensures NCE is developing autonomy at all levels of the organization
Stewards, trains, supports and coaches the Factory Leadership Team and Local Leadership Teams in Manufacturing competencies (e.g. GA, FI, TPM 7+4) behaviors and applicable manufacturing standards
Develops competency of Local Leadership Teams and Factory Leadership Teams, supporting them to apply methodologies to improve and sustain results (e.g. all NCE methodologies, Value Added Activities, Workload studies, etc.)
Conducts, sponsors and/or coaches specific projects to support results improvement around priorities established by the Factory
Understands and ensures together with Factory Cost Controller an overall competence of Costing Standards for Manufacturing
Collaborate with Market Manufacturing Excellence Director to drive NCE Experience

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in food science, Engineering or related degree required
Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt certification desired
8+ years in a manufacturing or continuous improvement environment, desired
Food, CPG or Pharmaceutical experience preferred which includes:
2+ Years of direct production/maintenance floor experience
2+ Years working with factory management/leadership team
2+ Years of project management, loss intelligence, & advanced problem solving
2+ Years working in Goal Alignment/TPM/Lean implementation

Benefits

Comp & perks

performance-based incentives
competitive total rewards package
401k with company match
healthcare coverage
broad range of other benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

data reliabilitySAP BOMMaster Dataplanning rate reviewsAsset IntensityNCE methodologiesValue Added ActivitiesWorkload studiesproject managementadvanced problem solving

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingcollaborationcommunicationcompetency buildinggovernancestrategic planningprioritizationtrainingsupporting teams

Certifications

Bachelor’s degreeLean Six Sigma Green BeltLean Six Sigma Black Belt