About Our Client
My client is a successful family-run business that has been growing since the early 1900s and is now one of the UK's largest manufacturers. They have added capability in many different product categories and developed a thriving business with their retail customers alongside the brands they own.
Job Description
* Responsible for deployment of improvement projects and action plans, coordinating activities to deliver progress towards operational improvements in line with the Manufacturing Excellence roadmap and business objectives.
* Support continuous improvement maturity assessments to generate insight and feed into improvement action plans.
* Analyze materials performance data to identify any opportunities, challenges, trends, or repeating issues and provide insight to feed into improvement roadmaps.
* Identify opportunities for improved labor efficiency through review of actual labor use versus standards and line balancing exercises. Demonstrate and explain the importance of running to standard to front line colleagues, and coach production managers on good labor management and line balancing exercises.
* Contribute to, coach, and develop effective tier 1 and 2 meetings and team briefings, including audit of meeting process, behaviors, and content to highlight any opportunities for improvement.
* Utilize problem solving, process mapping, and analysis to support identification and scoping of improvement project plans which prioritize key value streams, and align to business objectives and the broader Manufacturing Excellence strategy.
* Deliver projects through multi-functional teams using a structured project management approach. Coordinate progress through strong stakeholder engagement, resource management, and risk mitigation. Ensure action plans and timelines account for business objectives and priorities, activities, and constraints.
* Plan, manage, and implement improvement activities at process/area level. Hold team members and stakeholders accountable for delivering agreed actions within an improvement project, and building/maintaining appropriate stakeholder relationships inside the organization to deliver improvement project objectives.
Working Hours
Monday - Friday 08:30 - 17:00
The Successful Applicant
You will ideally be an experienced Continuous Improvement Coordinator/Engineer/Specialist from a manufacturing background, along with:
* Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
* Six Sigma - Green Belt ideally
* Strong people management skillset - able to train/converse with different levels
* CI Project leadership experience
What's on Offer
£45,000 Salary
Excellent Benefits
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