Operations Excellence Manager; Food & Beverage Manufacturing

Who We Are

Baldwin Richardson Foods is focused on enriching the flavor of life. As a full-service liquid products supplier and strategic partner to the food and beverage industry, Baldwin Richardson Foods combines its formulation expertise and unique packaging options with robust processing capabilities to produce high-quality sauces, toppings, syrups, fillings, and shelf-stable beverages for the world's most iconic Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands, and food service companies.

Its state-of-the‑art Innovation & Culinary Center transforms trends and culinary inspiration into legendary products through an award‑winning commercialization process. The company also manufactures and markets Mrs. Richardson's dessert sauces and Nance's mustards/condiments in addition to producing finished goods for the private label sector. BRF maintains its headquarters and a manufacturing facility in Macedon, New York; with a Culinary Innovation Center in Westmont, Illinois;

and offices and manufacturing facilities in Williamson, New York;
Pennsauken, New Jersey; and Corona, California.

This role will be out of Pennsauken, NJ
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The Site Operational Excellence Manager serves as the primary leader for the deployment, sustainment, and evolution of the Go For The Win (GFTW) operating system across the site. This role is responsible for building and embedding a culture of total employee ownership, continuous improvement, and loss elimination that drives operational excellence in safety, quality, productivity, cost, morale, and capability. While reporting directly to the Director of Operational Excellence (Enterprise), this individual works as a strategic partner to the Plant Leadership Team, ensuring that GFTW principles and systems are fully integrated into the site’s business strategy, organizational priorities, and performance management processes.

The role plays a key part in developing and executing the site’s Compelling Business Need (CBN) and annual goal‑setting process, ensuring alignment between long‑term strategy and daily execution. On a day‑to‑day basis, the Operational Excellence Manager collaborates closely with leaders, department managers, and front‑line teams to identify and eliminate losses, strengthen work systems, and enable sustainable improvement. This includes coaching teams to use GFTW tools effectively, facilitating manufacturing performance reviews, supporting problem‑solving and capability‑building sessions, and ensuring that progress is visible, measurable, and linked to business outcomes.

In addition to leading cross‑functional improvement initiatives, the role acts as the site’s primary integrator of GFTW practices, ensuring that every pillar—Leadership, Autonomous Maintenance, Progressive Maintenance, Loss Elimination, Learning & Development, Safety, and Quality—works cohesively to deliver consistent performance and engagement across the entire operation.

• Lead the site’s GFTW roadmap and maturity journey, ensuring sustainable progress across all pillars
• Develop and execute the site’s GFTW Yearly Master Plan and Quarterly Detailed Work Plan to deliver breakthrough performance in cost, reliability, and capability
• Facilitate GFTW reviews and audits to assess progress and identify improvement opportunities

• Partner with the Site Leadership Team to support the Leadership Pillar within GFTW, ensuring strong alignment between operational excellence systems and business direction
• Establish and continuously communicate the site’s Compelling Business Need (CBN) — the shared purpose that connects site objectives to organizational goals and motivates engagement at all levels
• Facilitate annual goal‑setting processes to translate the CBN into clear, measurable site objectives and tiered GFTW targets (safety, quality, productivity, cost, and capability)
• Partner with functional leaders to ensure each department develops aligned action plans that support the site’s strategic objectives and loss elimination priorities
• Enable line‑of‑sight for all employees, ensuring every team…