IL6S Engineer

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

You play an important role in the department, maintaining systems and performing tasks and activities that support our continuous improvement (CI) processes and culture. You help with data collection, ensure its accuracy, promote CI progress and keep track of the department KPI scorecards.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Provide training on CI tools and techniques. You will also help departments follow our established daily management system (DMS)
• Help teams collect data or extract it from the system to support CI activities and the DMS
• Facilitate root-cause analysis to address identified losses and departmental KPI scorecard gaps
• Establish new work standards to sustain improvement
• Train and qualify colleagues on CI tools and new work standards resulting from CI activities

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• CI and high-performance work systems experience
• Strong facilitation and communication skills to support team discussions on CI activities
• Application of lean and/or TPM tools in a factory or operations environment
• Ability to manipulate and validate data in manual and automated systems
• Mastery of Excel and other data analytics tools
• Organized and disciplined to support and educate on the DMS process
• Logical and structured thinking to extract insights from data

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

• Support the implementation of IL6S roll out at site, partnering with stake holders to fulfill capability needs and doing maturity assessments on all standard work processes.
• Lead and execute continuous improvement initiatives to eliminate top losses, improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and morale (SQDCM) across the site.
• Serve as a site Autonomous Maintenance Subject Matter Expert (SME), owning AM standards, deployment, and capability development in partnership with Manufacturing and Maintenance
• Apply Focused Improvement (FI) tools to identify, quantify, and prioritize losses, enabling teams and Process Engineers to execute effective loss elimination and deliver measurable results.
• Coach core team, technicians, and leaders on problem solving, AM practices, and standard work to build self-sufficiency at the line level.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to enable equipment reliability improvements and AM ownership, ensuring loss elimination efforts are aligned to standards and sustained over time.
• Ownership of the Waste and/or Cost Work Process including floor level loss intelligence, glidepath development, and system governance to enable prioritized loss elimination and sustained improvement.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Strong working knowledge of Continuous Improvement, Lean, TPM, and IL6S principles, with the ability to apply them in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience driving improvement initiatives using data, structured problem solving, and loss analysis.
• Hands-on understanding of equipment reliability, autonomous maintenance practices, and operator-based asset care.
• Ability to coach and influence at all levels of the organization, from frontline operators to site leadership.
• Proven capability to translate complex concepts into practical, easy-to-understand tools and standard work.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams

Education / Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Operations Management, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. (Preferred)
• Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in manufacturing, continuous improvement, maintenance, or operational excellence role.
• Demonstrated experience with Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, or IL6S methodologies (formal certifications preferred)
• Experience working in regulated manufacturing environment (food, CPG, or similar)
• Proficiency with data and analytics tools (Excel required; Power BI; Minitab, or similar tools preferred)

Job specific requirements:

• Regular presence on the production floor to observe processes, identify losses, and coach team in real time.
• Ability to support operations across shifts as needed, including early mornings, nights, or weekends during initiatives, startups, or breakdowns.
• Ability to analyze equipment and process performance using data, trends, and loss intelligence.
• Ability to facilitate workshops, training sessions, and structure problem-solving events
• Willingness to lead from the floor and work side-by-side with operators and technicians when needed.

Work schedule

• Primarily M-F regular business hours; however, flexibility is required to support business needs. Occasional off-shift support may be required during improvement initiatives, Small Group Activity (SGA) Event. Schedule will be adjusted as needed to ensure effective partnership with Operations and Maintenance across shifts.

Salary and Benefits: The expected base salary range for this position is $69,800 to $87,250 CAD depending on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible to participate in a highly competitive bonus program with a target of 8% with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. Mondelez also offers several generous employee benefits (some subsidized or fully paid for by the company), including health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, and enhanced vacation and holiday entitlements. AI may be used as part of the recruitment process and in accordance with local laws. This posting is for a current vacancy.No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

RegularProcess excellenceBusiness Capability