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Mark Anthony Group ("Mike's Hard Lemonade + White Claw")

Senior Manager, Manufacturing Excellence

Waddell, AZ · Posted Dec 16
The Mark Anthony Group of Companies is one of North America's most diversified and successful private beverage companies focused on the alcohol beverage sector. Founded in 1972, the Company grew organically from a one-man wine importing business to a producer and distributor of fine wine, premium spirits, and ready-to-drink beverages, including White Claw Hard Seltzer.

Role Purpose:

The Sr. Manufacturing Excellence (ManEx) Manager role is part of the site leadership team and is responsible for executing the ManEx program framework deployment within the Brewery. This role will provide continuous improvement leadership and direction to implement the ManEx values within the brewery and will be accountable for driving improvement in performance & productivity while building a sustainable Manufacturing Excellence program that delivers breakthrough performance improvement and builds capability & efficiency within the brewery team.

Accountabilities & Impact:
  • Provides leadership and strategic thinking to implement a continuous improvement culture
  • Drives the sustainability and adoption of ManEx tools and practices throughout the brewery.
  • Implements Best Practices/Standards and ManEx roadmap focused on driving performance with structured and standardized ways of working (incl. formal root cause failure analysis, loss analysis, structured communication, ect.)
  • Develops ManEx capability and change agents working collaboratively with the site leadership team, People Operations and other functions to improve capability of all levels by defining and implementing a standards to deliver sustainable performance improvement.
  • Assure adoption of ManEx standards and best in class practices as defined, developed, and established within our ManEx framework

Skills & Experiences Needed:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Operations, Management, or related field with minimum of 10 years of Technical/Production/Engineering/Maintenance Management in consumer product manufacturing
  • Demonstrated success in manufacturing operations and continuous improvement
  • Lean Six-Sigma Certification

The Sr. Manufacturing Excellence Manager position is well-suited for you if you have/are:
  • Exhibits outstanding team building, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to influence indirectly
  • Strong partner management, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Strategic planning and decision making, organizational change and tactical management of standards, business processes and internal/external partnerships to support performance goals.

What we value at Mark Anthony:

Sense of Urgency
  • We value sense of urgency because we are a fast-paced company in a fast-paced industry
  • You act as if there is no tomorrow and get it done today

Authenticity
  • We value authenticity because we need to stay real
  • You are authentic, diplomatic, respectful, thoughtful and you always have the best intentions

Simplicity
  • We value simplicity; why use 50 words when you can use 5?
  • You thrive in ambiguity, are comfortable with change and bring simplicity to complex situations or grey area

Humility
  • We value humility; there is no room for egos here
  • You're not stubborn, you listen, take feedback/direction and respond quickly to changing direction. We are a team that supports each other

Trust
  • We value trust because unless we are both trusted and trusting, we will not succeed as a team
  • You put trust in others and do your best to never let anyone down

At Mark Anthony, we believe every team member shares the responsibility of understanding how each of our roles and actions impact Quality, Food Safety, Safety and Continuous Improvement. This collective mindset is the cornerstone of our success as a leader in the consumer beverage space and requires us to mutually build and improve robust processes that guarantee unmatched customer satisfaction and safety