Manufacturing Digital Delivery Lead
McCain Foods
- Florenceville-Bristol, NB
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Own overall enablement of MDI x AI initiatives at plant level
- Track progress & deliverables and make trade-off decisions between content & timing
- Coordinate tasks and timelines across teams (e.g., link between product owners and plant teams)
- Resolve deployment roadblocks, escalate to Digital Mfg. Lead as needed
- Gather relevant inputs and feedback from key stakeholders, including product owners, plant teams, technical experts (tech, engineering & data)
- Resolve adoption obstacles to ensure long lasting solution adoption
- Identify and empower solutions "advocates" within plant teams to boost adoption
- Mitigate deployment risks and ensure business-as-usual continuation during deployment of MDI x AI solutions
- Proactively identify and minimize deployment impact on process/roles
- Coordinate deployment process with key stakeholders, prioritizing core business operations
- Report progress to Digital Mfg. Leadership and raise blockers, with solution-oriented mindset to continue driving program forward in a timely manner
- Distill key deployment learnings from each project phase, to carry forward best practices as deployment scales to other plants (and for future phases at own plant)
- Several years of experience working with a focus in Manufacturing, evidence of progressive roles
- Ability to build rapport across functional teams, meet with the business with excellent business acumen; Negotiate business requirements to align with the technology design team.
- Act as a trusted ambassador to the manufacturing team; Coach, mentor and guide them to accomplish MDIxAI program goals.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively across levels and functions internally and with third parties.
- Demonstrated skill in change and change management
- Good business acumen, understands how to drive value through the use of technology and data
- A strong passion, energy and enthusiasm to achieve and excel with your go-getter attitude and high motivation
- Bachelor's Degree in appropriate discipline
- Master's Degree or Applied Certificate in Manufacturing or related field
Division: NA Potato Manufacturing
Department: MDI x AI Digital Manufacturing
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-BristolCompany: McCain Foods (Canada)