Manufacturing Excellence Internship at Nestlé

Nestlé are looking for a Manufacturing Excellence Intern based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Manufacturing Excellence Intern supports Factory Team to achieve World-Class Manufacturing Excellence by leveraging NCE practices to improve business results in a continuous and sustainable manner and ultimately the factory to become a Lean Enterprise.

The Manufacturing Excellence Intern supports the implementation of NCE across the Factory or drive the NCE implementation in limited scope of the factory.

Your Role

A day in the life of a Manufacturing Excellence Intern:

Support the strategic plan development and management in the Factory:

• Support the factory to achieve their business goals by applying NCE Methodologies;
• Helps to translate the Market priorities and function priorities into the Factory/area OMP;
• Ensures the right cascading of priorities and measures from the Market to the Factory/area;
• Defines and embeds NCE projects and initiatives into the Factory/area objectives and align Local Leadership Teams towards the plan.

Establish adequate competencies for the Factory:

• Stewards, trains, supports, and coaches the Factory Leadership Team and Local Leadership Teams in the NCE in Manufacturing competencies (e.g.GA, FI, LVS, AM) and applicable manufacturing standards.

Improvement in Manufacturing Excellence results:

• Promotes and supports cross-fertilization of Manufacturing best operations, knowledge, standards and improvements across the factories ;
• Ensures an overall understanding of the different NCE methodologies (pillars) within the Factory Leadership Team, functions and how they integrate through the NCE implementation plan avoiding silo working;
• Conducts specific projects to support results improvement around priorities established by the Factory; Provides hands-on support to the Local Leadership Teams and Local Operating Teams to accelerate improvement of results (coach by doing with factory);
• Drives pragmatic application of methodologies, routines(7+4) and tools focusing on delivering results by applying NCE simplification principles;
• Ensures effectiveness of NCE implementation (business results); Helps the Factory Operations to drive NCE in manufacturing; Support the roll out of digital tools in factory operations.
• Support the adherence of the stock policy for Raw & Pack Materials derived through the RPIO or equivalent tools.
• Support the Strategic & Global procurement to ensure excellent supplier relationships.
• Understanding of stock management systems

What you bring

What will make you successful?

1. A degree in Manufacturing, Engineering or Supply Chain Management
2. Minimum 1 year factory experience
3. Collaboration and influencing skills
4. Curiosity and passion for operational excellence

Apply for this vacancy

Deadline: Monday, August 24, 2026

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