Associate Director Automation - Poultry Innovation

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Job Details:

The Optimization and Automation Poultry Innovation team is a start-up team at Tyson Foods that is responsible for the development and validation of innovative solutions and technologies that improve team member safety, optimize labor and yield, ensure food safety, and provide a framework for sustainable profitability for the Poultry Business Unit.

The selected candidate will play a crucial role in leading the drive to deploy automated debone solutions across the Poultry Business Unit. The candidate will manage the innovation team comprised of process SME’s and automation professionals. The team must successfully engage work with Tyson Engineering and vendors to produce, improve and deploy this industry changing technology. Success will be defined by leveraging Tyson’s scale in vendor negotiations as well as simplifying and streamline the support and maintenance of these solutions. You will partner across the enterprise with leaders in engineering, business ops, IT, and finance to manage the deployment of this automation solution.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

This position will manage and direct a cross-functional team with engineering, IT, procurement, finance, operations, and others to create and deploy a well vetted and standardized offering of poultry debone solutions. You will lead your team by clearly defining the metrics of success, setting expectations and responsibilities, providing effective performance coaching, and inspiring your team members to grow and meet their full potential in their current roles and careers.

Essential duties include –

1)Complete the development of the Tyson Debone system technical capabilities


Ensure Product Readiness in Installation, Operation, Maintenance and Support


2) Oversee and support the deployment of systems into multiple plants

3) Drive the contract manufacturers into a fixed price model


Develop the key strategies to lower system cost and improve performance


4) Assess and compare the operations requirements to the system capability and use the resulting performance gap to prioritize system feature development

5) Working with Business and Engineering to develop and communicate the tactical plan for deployment in 2023

6) Assess and compare the operations requirements to commercially available system capabilities and use the resulting performance gap drive contingency plans for effective debone performance in Tyson

Requirements:


Education: B.S. in Mechanical/Electrical/Computer Engineering
Experience: 7 plus years of direct related experience with automation in manufacturing and production environments with an emphasis robotics and controls automation. An organized and process-minded approach to solving problems
2 to 4 years’ experience directly managing teams and managing performance
Hands-on experience where you have brought organization to ambiguous environment with the use of processes, standards, and governance.
Ability to clearly “tell the story” and tailor messaging to partners, leadership, and stakeholders including executive levels of leadership
Proven ability to mentor team members to grow in their own career and impact
Ability to lead a team of others towards a common goal and achieve successful outcomes
Advanced problem-solving skills with the ability to operate within complex situations, break them down, and work with others to define the path forward
Working knowledge and experience in industrial robotics, controls, automation and artificial intelligence and their application in a production environment
Understanding of interdependencies between technology, operations, and engineering

Preferred:
Experience gathering and organization data to glean insights from it to make decisions
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification or higher is a plus
Proficient in the use of process mapping software and tools (mind-mapping tools, Visio, etc.)
Excellent skills in standard computer software including spreadsheet and presentation software
Experienced with project management tools (e.g. MS Project, JIRA, etc.)
Understanding and knowledge of food production processes and solutions is desired
Experience with industrial Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their deployment at scale
Skills: Basic computer skills; Microsoft Office and SAP.
Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; will be facilitating operations change in diverse groups.
Certifications: Any Operations or management certifications are a plus.
Supervisory: 5-10 with anticipated growth
Travel: 25-35%


Relocation Assistance Eligible:

Yes

Work Shift:

1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

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