Continuous Improvement Leader/Facilitator – FMCG - North Yorkshire

Continuous Improvement Leader/Facilitator – FMCG

Posted by: Silven

Job Title: Continuous Improvement Leader / CI Facilitator

Location: North Yorkshire

Salary: c£35-38k

My client is passionate about the quality of their food products and equally so about driving continuous improvement across their business. They are recruiting for a dynamic CI Leader/Facilitator for their prestigious manufacturing site in North Yorkshire

The Candidate:

• You will preferably be qualified to HND or equivalent level with strong experience in Continuous Improvement management and TPM within FMCG manufacturing or a food manufacturing environment.
• A background in training and delivering CI/Lean training of this kind is essential.
• Strong demonstrable experience of Lean Manufacturing strategies including Kaizan, Kanban, TPM, SMED.
• Exposure to and involvement within project management
• Ability to use your initiative and be a strong decision maker
• A demonstrable track record of performance delivery through coaching
• Influence effectively from operative to director level
• Motivation to inspire team members and peers

The Role:

• Reporting to the Production Manager, as CI Leader you will have a challenging and important role within the team, working with the site to enable the roll out of their CI strategy.
• You will be responsible for training of CI techniques and the steps needed at all levels.
• As CI facilitator you will work with site teams to accelerate the implementation of the CI strategy.
• You will drive compliance to legislative, business needs and standards
• You will implement best practice manufacturing through identified tools and techniques such as Kaizan , Kanban , SMED etc
• To explore new opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce waste and ensure customer service
• Support delivery of measurable improvements in Health and Safety, OEE, wastage and quality with the Factory manufacturing teams.

The Company:

• My client is a successful food manufacturing group and World Class Manufacturing is high on their agenda.
• An opportunity now exists for an ambitious Continuous Improvement Facilitator to join their team in this brand-new role.

Due to the high volume of responses to online advertisements, regrettably we are only able to acknowledge successful applications. If you have not been contacted within 7 days, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

To apply for this role, please send a copy of your CV to Emma Hanson quoting ref CH/C8438 to carole.hearb@silven.co.uk or for a confidential discussion, please call me on 0161 832 7463 or mobile 07792 466140