Process Improvement Specialist

Very Good Manufacturing

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Very Good runs beverage production for leading spirit & spirit-alternative brands

B2B

Early Stage Startup in initial stages

B2B

Early Stage Startup in initial stages

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Process Improvement Specialist

• $61k – $96k • No equity
• | Fort Worth
• |2 years of exp
• |Full Time

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Job Location

Fort Worth

Remote Work Policy In office

Visa Sponsorship Not Available

RelocationAllowed

Skills

• Operations Management

• Continuous Improvement

• Lean Six Sigma

• Lean Manufacturing

Hiring contact

Kathleen Finley COO

Fort Worth

About the job

$61,750 to $96,250 per year

Full-time, on site in Fort Worth, Texas

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About the role

We blend, bottle, and can distilled spirits and ready-to-drink cocktails for the biggest beverage-alcohol brands in the world, names you'd recognize from any back bar. We run two bottling lines and two canning lines, and the people who run them best carry a lot of hard-won knowledge about how.

This job gets that knowledge onto the page. You turn the work on our production floor into written procedures, checklists, and one-point lessons (a single page, mostly photos, on one task). Then you teach them, check that they're followed, and keep improving them. It's a new role, and you'll work across every team. To start, you report directly to the executive team. Once we hire a Continuous Improvement Manager, you'll report to them.

What you'll do

• Learn every job that can be written down. Shadow each team and film the operator who does a task best while they talk it through, step by step. Write the steps, rewrite them with the people who'll use them, add photos, and test them on every shift.
• Rebuild the checklists that start and stop a line. A startup checklist for each line, station by station. A shutdown checklist for each way a run ends: the end of a tank, a shift that ends partway through one, end-of-week cleaning, a short pause.
• Put them on tablets. Steps like the sanitizer flush, date-code checks, and seam checks on cans can't be skipped, and every sign-off is time-stamped. You build a record into each procedure, so every step leaves something we can check later.
• Teach it at the line. Train each shift on new and changed procedures where the work happens, and keep track of who has learned what.
• Walk a line every day. After startup, during a live shift, and after shutdown. Compare what was checked off with what you see. When they don't match, find out why, and decide what to fix: the standard, the checklist, the training, or the setup.
• Keep every procedure current. Review each one on a schedule, and again after a near miss, a quality hold, a short- or over-staffed shift, a late start, or a long stop. Fix what was missing. Keep one current, dated version of every procedure, form, and checklist in Quality's controlled library.

Qualifications

• You can watch someone do a task and write it down as steps a new person could follow the first time.

• You've made a process stick: a checklist other people actually used, or written steps for a task only one person knew. You can show us what changed after.

• You can break a job into its tasks, their order, what each one takes to learn, and how you'd check it was done right.

• You ask questions. You ask people to explain it one more time, and you come back later to confirm the details. You take the time to understand every job in the building from the side of the person doing it, and you can explain the same procedure to a new hire on second shift and to the executive team.

• You run your own work. You keep your own list, move it forward without being chased, and report in writing where it stands every week. When a near miss, a new product, or a change of plan from us moves something else to the top, you switch and note where you left off.

• Busy people give you what you need. Leads running tight lines don't have much spare time, so you ask short, exact questions, or you book a shadow session ahead of time. You ask for help when you need it. And you follow up, close the loop, and stay a step ahead of the executive team.

• On your feet on the floor for much of the day, with regular time on every shift.

• Helps, but not required: writing SOPs, work instructions, or training material in any plant · time as an operator, lead, or QC technician on a production line.

• You don't need to have done this in a plant. If you've written a restaurant's opening and closing checklists, kept training records in the military, or run load-in for live events, we want to hear from you.

• This is the wrong job if: you'd rather write the procedure at a desk than learn it at the line.

Compensation

$61,750 to $96,250 per year depending on experience, plus a discretionary performance bonus. PTO, medical and dental. Full-time, salaried, on-site in Fort Worth.

How we hire

• Apply on our website: About 20 minutes, including a 1 to 2 minute video you record on your phone.
• Video call: A short conversation about you: your background; your interests and career goals; your skills and experience; your general disposition and way of working.
• Site visit: Come see us, wear a safety vest, meet the team. 30 to 45 minutes, and part of it is hands-on: we talk through a real problem from our floor and how you'd get it onto a page.
• Offer: To the best candidate we meet.

Why join Very Good

Nearly every manager in this building started here at entry level. We promote from within and we cross-train on purpose. The procedures you write are how the next person learns the job, and how they move up.

We have fun doing cool stuff. You'll work on industry-leading alcohol innovation projects with brands people know around the world. Your friends will be impressed.

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About 20 minutes, no cover letter. You'll upload a resume and a short phone video, so have your phone handy.

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About the company

Very Good Manufacturing

Actively Hiring More jobs Very Good runs beverage production for leading spirit & spirit-alternative brands51-200 Employees

Fort Worth

51-200

Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Food and Beverages

Wine And Spirits

Logistics

Craft Beer

B2B

Early Stage Startup in initial stages

Employees joined from

DSM

International Flavors & Fragrances

Ungerer & Company

Edlong Dairy Technologies

ANP LLC

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Funding

AMOUNT RAISED $3M

FUNDED OVER 1 round

Round

PRE $3000000

Pre-Seed - Aug 2022

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