Continuous Improvement Supervisor - Decatur, IL
ADM · Decatur, IL
- Level
- Supervisor
- Team
- Lean / CI
- Industry
- Food & beverage
- Posted
- 8 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A supervisor continuous improvement role at ADM (food & beverage) in Decatur, IL.
- Tools it names
- Value stream mapping, OEE, Root cause
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
How this role compares
Against 41 other live lean / ci postings in the US.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $75k–$128k, from 6 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Lean 81%
- ✓ Team leadership 62%
- 5S 50%
- ✓ Value stream mapping 40%
- Kaizen 31%
- ✓ Root cause 26%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for OEE, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
Pulled from the posting text. If it's not listed here, the posting didn't say.
How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Lean / CI team at ADM
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is CI run from the plant floor or from a corporate OpEx group?
- Which metrics does leadership actually watch: OEE, scrap, cost per unit?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: ADM in Decatur
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Job Summary
The Continuous Improvement Supervisor is responsible for driving and improving training execution, understanding department losses, developing and executing actions related to losses, and driving process improvement projects within the Alcohol Department.
Job
Responsibilities
- ◆Training Progress & Accountability
requirements
- ✓Supports the department as a backup operations champion
- ✓Fill in as needed for department on-call and/or coverage on nights/weekends/holidays
- ✓Assist with developing coverage schedule for hourly colleagues
Job Experience/Skills
- ✓Three or more years of experience in an ADM operating facility preferred.
- ✓Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work across functions
- ✓Strong root cause analysis experience
- ✓Experience with Value Stream Mapping and working to find efficiencies in process.
- ✓Strong Performance Excellence background and experience
- ✓Strong TPS and PSM background
- ✓Demonstrated strength with trouble-shooting activities Strong Microsoft office skills such as PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Visio and PiVision
Education/Training
- ✓Minimum of a high school diploma/GED
Requirements
- ✓Ability to ascend and descend stairs
- ✓Ability to move/transport 55 pounds
- ✓Sit and stand for long periods
- ✓Work in confined spaces
- ✓Work at heights
- ✓Bending and Kneeling
- ✓Be respirator qualified
Excited about this role but don’t think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.
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Continuous Improvement Supervisor – Corn Plant – Decatur, IL
This is a full-time, exempt level position.
include
- •Ensure that trainees are staying on track through their training timeline by auditing their progress and checking in with them frequently
- •Developing new training materials or updating existing training materials based on training and knowledge gaps
- •Conduct 1:1 coaching sessions with trainees focused on topics missed during qualification steps
- •Facilitate assessments and remediation plans for colleagues in training.
- •Thoroughly execute qualification walk-throughs with each trainee prior to qualification.
- •Send bi-weekly trainee progress reports with information including: Qualification timeline status, test status and performance, element tree progress, required sign-off completion, and identification of trainees who are on track, behind, or requiring additional support.
- •Communicate clearly with leaders, trainers, operators, and stakeholders regarding training status, risks, gaps, and action plans
- •Deliver learning content for classroom and field training as well as develop others to do the same.
include
- •Review department health and previous-day losses daily.
- •Update, analyze, and understand departmental losses using 0-loss, OEE and TEEP fundamentals
- •Develop and present OEE/TEEP analyses for daily and monthly departmental review and response
- •Assist the department with Alcohol Deployment Plan monthly by engaging with deployment owners to understand current status, identifying deployments that are on track, ahead, or behind schedule, confirming upcoming priorities, and capturing new deployment work not yet reflected in the plan.
- •Lead various continuous improvement projects throughout the department
- •Assist the department in Structured Management System ownership through KPI tracking and updating, Standard of Work rollouts and auditing, and driving departmental review and response
Other Departmental Support
- •Understand their role in food safety and quality systems, is actively engaged in plant and food safety efforts, and ensures conformance to good manufacturing practices
- •Understand their role in process and operations safety, is actively engaged in the plant’s safety culture and improvements, and thoroughly understands Process Safety Management (PSM)
Working Conditions
- •Able to work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as hot and cold temperatures and a dusty environment & various chemical safely.
Physical