Join Mondelēz International as a Line Leader in Herentals, Belgium. In this full-time manufacturing role, you will lead production lines, manage budgets, and drive safety, quality, and efficiency targets while coaching and developing your team.
Requirements
Master's degree in a technical direction or equivalent through experience.
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in a production or technical environment.
Experience with safety, quality, and hygiene regulations (food industry is a plus).
Knowledge of Lean Management, Autonomous Maintenance, and Total Productive Maintenance is preferred.
Skills & Responsibilities
Autonomous maintenance (AM) & Progressive Maintenance (PM): Maintain equipment at basic conditions independently and execute AM and PM standards.
Total Productive Maintenance & Six Sigma: Apply IL6S tools like Kaizen, RCA, EPL, and tags to support continuous improvement.
Leadership & coaching: Lead and coach Team Leaders and Technical Team Leaders to achieve performance goals.
Process optimization & safety: Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and environmental standards, conducting audits and risk analyses.
Potential transition routes: People from Production Supervisor or Technical Manager roles may bring strong leadership and manufacturing skills, alongside meeting technical education and management requirements.
Job description
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
This role helps ensure the sustained continuity of technical mastery and line leadership in manufacturing, by leading a key line of the business (technical, system or organizational) to deliver results defined by the compelling business need of the site. You ensure that key business results are achieved and for developing others to ensure the sustained continuity of technical mastery on the manufacturing line. Using a systematic approach, you use strategic thinking skills to ensure results are sustained over the long term.
How you will contribute
In your likely first managerial role, you will ensure that Mondelēz International’s safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability and morale targets are achieved for the lines for which you are responsible by breaking down section targets into line and unit targets and ensuring that employees understand their individual performance goals related to the overall targets. In this role, you will also develop budgets and be responsible for costs control management, governance and compliance, loss elimination and workforce planning, including recruitment, retention, development, succession planning, and the identification of high potential team members. Without you, we would not be able to deliver high-quality snacks to our customers.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
Autonomous maintenance (AM) Step 4 systems and progressive maintenance (PM) Step 3 systems
Maintaining equipment at basic conditions independently, including the execution of AM & PM (break-down maintenance, planned maintenance) standards on dedicated equipment
Total productive maintenance and Six Sigma including qualification of AM steps 5-6, and PM step 3
Communicating effectively verbally and in writing and a good attention to detail
More about this role
Line Leader
Als Line Leader leid je enkele productielijnen binnen een sectie en bepaal je de prioriteiten zodat de continuïteit van het productieproces gegarandeerd is en de vooropgestelde objectieven op vlak van veiligheid, kwaliteit, leverbetrouwbaarheid, kost, duurzaamheid en moraal behaald worden.
Verantwoordelijkheden
Leidinggeven & coachen: Je stuurt Team Leaders (verantwoordelijk voor operatoren) en Technisch Team Leaders (verantwoordelijk voor techniekers) aan en ondersteunt hen in hun ontwikkeling.
Samenwerken: Je vormt samen met collega’s van kwaliteit, veiligheid en Continuous Improvement een sterk en competent team dat bijdraagt aan de bedrijfsdoelstellingen.
Productie& planning: Je organiseert, volgt op en stuurt de productie bij om de vooropgestelde normen te behalen. Je werkt nauw samen met de planningsafdeling.
Technisch beheer: Je bewaakt het technisch budget en ondersteunt de uitvoering van het preventief onderhoudsplan.
Procesoptimalisatie: Je ondersteunt de CI Coördinator in verbeterprojecten en past zelf IL6S-tools toe (Kaizen, RCA, EPL, tags, …).
Veiligheid & kwaliteit: Je zorgt voor de naleving van veiligheids-, kwaliteits- en milieunormen en voert audits en risicoanalyses uit.
Communicatie & rapportage: Je stemt alles goed af met jouw team en andere afdelingen via shiftoverdrachten, het leiden van DMS 2 en rapportage op DMS 3, en regelmatige Gemba walks.
Ervaring
Master in een technische richting of gelijkwaardig door ervaring.
Minimaal 5 jaar relevante ervaring in een productie- of technische omgeving.
Leiderschap & coaching: Je hebt een passie voor het begeleiden en motiveren van teams.
Ervaring met veiligheids-, kwaliteits- en hygiënevoorschriften (voedingsindustrie is een plus).
Kennis van Lean Management is een troef.
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The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
What makes working at Mondelēz International so special? Many things. The iconic brands and global nature of our business. The continuous innovation and endless opportunities to grow. The chance each day, to put a smile on people’s faces. We are the world’s leading maker of chocolate, biscuits, candy and gum with outstanding brands like Alpen Gold, Oreo, Milka, Yubileynoye and Halls.
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
