Description Continuous Improvement Lead Opportunity to grow your career in Continuous Improvement Collaborative and energetic work environment Located in Seven Hills, New South Wales, Australia Grow your Continuous Improvement career in a global FMCG organisation!
Are you looking to grow your career in Continuous Improvement?
Do you want to join a dynamic team with a proven track record of internal growth and career advancement opportunities?
We have an exciting permanent opportunity for a CI Lead to join our manufacturing team at Kraft Heinz, based out of our Seven Hills NSW site!
The Company The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion.
Our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries.
These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.
Key position responsibilities include, but not limited to: Proven track record leading continuous improvement to reduce process losses, boost equipment reliability, and replicate successful solutions across production lines or sites.
Experience creating,



maintaining and improving equipment and process standards in partnership with production and maintenance teams.
Skilled at using production data and monitoring systems to track critical process measures, set target operating conditions, and drive reliability improvements.
Practical experience reducing changeover downtime: setting targets, standardising steps, tracking actuals against targets, and running focused workshops to speed up changeovers.
Strong change-management capability: keep procedures and control strategies current and communicate updates clearly across the plant.
Experience planning and running regular equipment/process health checks, identifying gaps and leading actions to close them.
Comfortable in daily production planning meetings and reporting key performance metrics (for example, Overall Equipment Effectiveness and average time between unplanned stops) and improvement outcomes.
Able to coach and mentor frontline leaders and equipment owners, lead structured problem solving and root-cause analysis, prioritise fixes from loss analyses, and ensure data used for decisions is accurate.
About you: Bachelors degree in Engineering, Business Administration or relevant – preferred Strong knowledge in lean six sigma.
Experience in Continuous Improvement, deploying production systems, and in FMCG.
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📌 Continuous Improvement Lead (Sydney)
🏢 The Kraft Heinz
📍 Sydney