Pilot Plant Supervisor

## Short Intro and About the Job The Pilot Plant Supervisor has management responsibilities over Pilot Plant Technicians and provides on the floor leadership and expertise in several targeted areas including but not limited to Operations, Automation, Quality, Continuous Improvement, Troubleshooting and Safety. The Supervisor will also be adept to working as an active part of the production team when called upon and assists in all team-oriented tasks and training processes. The mission of the role is to support the ongoing development and improvement of products, packaging and processes for Danone R&I, by applying significant technical knowledge and logic to running small scale experimentation in a pilot plant setting. This position reports directly to the Pilot Plant Manager. The supervisor will work in direct conjunction with the Pilot Manager, Process and Technical project leaders to drive increased scalability from Pilot to Industrial **Main Responsibilities & Activities** - Leads a team of pilot plant technicians including supporting/providing development opportunities. This includes administrative activities like FTO, timesheets, expense reports, objectives and development plans. - Owns planning and coordination of the Pilot Plant trial schedule/calendar. Creates People schedule for Pilot Operations team. - Responsible for communicating facts and sharing information with the Team. Uses DFMEA model for root cause investigations into machine failures, losses, delays and quality issues. - Owns Automation processes in coordination with global Danone guidelines and develops internal data trends for reporting of process and trial information. - Quality program and processes leader following FDA and Danone FSQ requirements. Position will lead HAACP, Environmental Monitoring, Master Sanitation, Allergen and Wastewater plans. - Communicates in a timely manner with Pilot Plant Manager regarding safety, performance and corrective measures to ensure safe and efficient operations. - Maintains a safe and clean working environment for all employees and visitors. Ensures all safety rules, pilot plant WOW’s, GMPs and code of ethics are always followed. - Tracks pilot metrics (%OE, Downtime, Success Rate, Compliance, Throughput) - Lead and coordinate cross-training of operators to acceptable competencies on high volume pilot lines - Prepares content for and conducts regularly scheduled team meetings (weekly, shutdown) - Hosts regularly scheduled pilot coordination meetings with R&I technical teams (pre-trial and weekly coordination meetings) - Assists developers in preparation, execution, and review of experiments - Leads and drives processing activities to ensure efficient and timely completion of processing schedule - Works with maintenance team to promptly schedule preventative maintenance activities around an evolving production schedule. - Assists operations during critical situations (breakdowns, quality issues, other incidents) - Work in any position to replace teammates when needed. - Owns/Supports creation and validation of accurate and up to date Standard Operating Procedures and certifications. - Co-develops pilot plant WOW and Continuous Improvement efforts with Pilot Plant Manager. Constantly looking for improvements to elevate efficiencies. - Supports R&I Product Developer led scalability and commercialization efforts of new products and ingredients. - The individual must exemplify the ability to work with minimal supervision. - Must be adaptable to a changing work environment, competing demands and is able to deal with frequent changes, delays or unexpected events. - Responsible for being a role model for Acceptable Behavior ("Acceptable" defined as: positive attitude, team leadership, knowledge of and adherence to policies and procedures, and ensuring that team skill sets are maintained). - Other duties as assigned by management ***Building Team*** - Remain approachable by behaving in a professional and courteous manner an…