Total Production Management Manager

There’s Always a Seat at Our Bar 

The Lagunitas Brewing Company began on a kitchen stove in Northern California in 1993 and has always looked to the future – whether supporting local communities by turning beer into money for the cause, or fueling stories, songs, and experiences with our IPA. Wherever you go: Beer Speaks, People Mumble. 

What You’ll Get

• Benefits – Awesome coverage for: Medical, Dental & Vision
• Time off - Approx 33 days off in your first year (combo of vacay, holidays and personal days)
• Retirement – up to 5% contribution on 401K plan
• BEER – and non-alcoholic Lagunitas beverages
• Schwag – 50% off food and merch
• Gym Membership – $50 monthly reimbursement for that beer belly (or at least to prevent it)
• Pet Insurance – keep your fur babies covered with pet insurance options
• Skills to Pay the Bills – professional development, 24/7 operation
• Flexibility – Hybrid Schedule (3 days Onsite; 2 days remote) – Based In Petaluma
• It’s Friday, Ya’ll – Get Paid every other Friday; Annual salary ranging between $98,700 -$111,000

The Gist

The TPM Manager manages the process of TPM implementation for Production and CS&L within the brewery by working together with the different departments. As member of the LT pillar, the TPM Manager is responsible for the implementation of TPM fundamentals, guiding implementation TPM plan and ensuring that the TPM methodology is embedded and becomes the way of working in agile way. You will support and challenge LT and all E2E Pillars with translating the E2E brewery roadmap into pragmatical (pillar) steps, ensuring all standards, processes and tools applicable to foundation level are in place, building the right capabilities in a sustainable way. At foundation level, driving the TPM culture as the only way of working and improving is a key deliverable supported by digital tools where possible and/or necessary.

What You’ll Do

• Supports, coordinates and challenges the leadership team in their journey to integrate and implement the OpCo strategy in their brewery and build capabilities which address all E2E processes. 
• The TPM Manager is always looking and challenging the LT to see were and how digital tools can support and accelerate E2E Excellence related to business needs.   
• The TPM Manager maintains an overview of the TPM implementation agenda, whereas the detailed planning is made, owned and managed by the pillar leads.
• The TPM Manager facilitates, gives support and challenges the pillars to make the right steps with the right pace and with the right priorities, linked to the business needs.
• In the execution of his/her daily tasks the TPM Manager interacts with various stakeholders:
  • Internal: Safety, Purchasing, Packaging, Brewing, Quality, Maintenance, Utilities, Logistics, Finance, HR, OpCo TPM Manager and OpCo Pillars
  • External: Suppliers, Trainers and Respective Global function(s) and other OpCos
• At foundation level, driving the TPM culture as the only way of working and improving is a key deliverable supported by digital tools where possible and/or necessary.

Key Accountabilities

1. TPM and Continuous Improvement

• Challenging / supporting Pillar leaders in:
• Setting-up Pillar structures
• Developing a masterplan in how to implement their pillars and how to come from E2E Road priorities, via deployments, to the right Failure mode and challenge team to reach Benchmark
• Team management: support shop floor in coaching and building the right capabilities and doing internal and external audits to challenge the pillars/ LT to make sure we are reaching the right level
• Setting and creating the right foundation standard
• Training the people on the basics and principles of TPM including the use of TPM Fundamentals.

Digital

• Helps the Pillars and LT with the digital transformation and challenge and supports them on how digital tools can help the team to close the gaps on their Must Win Battles and priorities.
• He/she is the Product owner of digital tools which are enablers of the TPM methodology

2. Safety, food Safety and sustainability

• Give support to all departments with implementing HEINEKEN Safety, Food safety and Sustainability standards and ensure these are embedded / applied / followed within all the operations, for both own and outsourced processes / activities. Challenge departments and colleagues on how to close the GAP and challenge steps linked to priorities and business needs.
• Help to monitor and challenge Sustainability and SHE conditions and behaviors in all departments and help the departments in taking appropriate actions / measures to prevent them from happening and stick in their daily way of working (e.g. DCS/ MoSF/ CILT etc.)
• Helping driving the (food) Safety agenda of all departments.

3. Process Management

• Challenge pillars how to drive technological production process in all departments with special focus on Safety, Food safety, Quality and Cost, from Raw materials (acceptance & storage) to Beer production (from intake raw material to full warehouse to logistics), in the planned amounts and desired quality.
• Challenge on shop floor and in leadership team (where relevant) if all the brewing, utilities, packaging and logistics processes requirements are in line with the HEINEKEN Rules, Standards and Procedures, local legislation and country standards.
• Shop floor visits to (stay) connect to shop floor operations. Also using these moments to have dialogs with operators and team leaders to see if they are “equipped” enough to reach operational excellence.

4. Organization and People Management

• Challenge Pillars on how to close the gap on
• Capabilities for pillar members and leaders
• Capabilities of Safety/ Quality / Leadership/ AM/ PM and logistics

TPM

• Responsible for the training of:
  • TPM Next general as a methodology
  • TPM Fundamental Tools
  • Supporting team route trainings
• Challenge and support pillars to come up with loss driven trainings out of deployments and PDCA on the follow-up / execution. Make sure pillars and teams are using the right tools to reach and drive Operational Excellence and zero loss culture
• Help the Pillar Leads and LT reaching out to the HNK Network via Communities, Workplace, CoE and HUB to accelerate the closing of the GAPS to reach Benchmark

5. Management of information and reporting

• Provides clear and accurate information for the brewery performance, according to agreed KPIs. High level Driving system. Numbers and KPIs are reported by the different pillars.  Help, support and challenge people with finding, sharing and uploading information like standards, good practices compliances etc. on ONE2Share, SharePoint and other digital tools which are available like ONE2Improve, SwipeGuide.

What We’re Lookin’ For

• Bachelors Degree Preferred; 3-5 years experience in role also accepted
• Language Needs: English Required; Spanish is a plus
• TPM / Lean / 6 Sigma, etc.
• Packaging / Brewing / Quality of Brewing / Biotechnology / FMCG production management, or other production environment
• People management. Building winning teams.

Key Relationships

• Reports to Brewery Manager
• Connects with all parts of the Leadership Team

Physical Stuff

• Ability to be lift, carry and move up to 40lbs
• Comfortable being on feet majority of shift

Come as You Are 

At Lagunitas, we welcome people (and dogs) from all walks of life. Anyone, regardless of their race, creed, nation of origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, veteran status, marital status, or age, has a home here. Love, progress, and acceptance will always have a seat at our bar.