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Continuous Improvement Lead
Swansea SA5
Commutable from Swansea, Bridgend, Port Talbot, Neath, Llanelli, Ammanford, Glynneath, Aberdare, Pontardawe, Ystradgynlais, Porthcawl
Benefits:-
- 26 Days + Bank Holidays
- 8% matched Pension
- Private Medical for yourself and family
- Private Dental for yourself and partner
- Quarterly bonus
- Company sick pay
- Career progression opportunities
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a world leader in an Continuous Improvement Lead role. This position will provide you with excellent job security, a days based role, a market leading salary alongside a fantastic benefits package including a matched pension, medical and dental cover for yourself and partner. This role will provide you the opportunity to lead and shape Continuous Improvement on site, work on exciting projects and a play a real role in the development of the business direction. If this role could be a fit for you, apply today!
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Coach the business to ensure they understand which minimum standards affect the performance metrics (SQCDP) and how to use them in an integrated way.
- Ensure the businesses understands their production system maturity as well as the route to improve.
- Accountable for the coaching and maintaining the Improvement owned minimum standards.
- Lead development and execution of the Improvement Programme.
- Focused on performance improvement and strategy delivery.
- Lead and manage business improvement strategic reviews and business governance sessions.
- Use improvement and problem-solving tools and techniques to deliver our critical projects and required levels of business performance.
- Lead the business journey to being a Lean Organisation.
- Actively demonstrate the Lean Leadership behaviours, coach others, support the lean strategy for their business and use Lean / Sigma tools to reduce waste and non-value added activity.
- Responsible for running improvement reviews and governance sessions to co-ordinate business improvement and support performance improvement through contributing to the BPD.
- Facilitate Kaizen events, Problem Resolution, Production System and Improvement activities.
- Coach Project sponsors, Green belts, Yellow belts, Lean projects and business leadership.
Requirements
- Experience in a fast paced, results driven manufacturing environment.
- Lean Sigma Black Belt accredited (or working towards accreditation)
- Educated to minimum degree level - Or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated track record of successful delivery of improvement projects / programmes linked to Customer Satisfaction and Profit & Loss.
- Influencing team members, managers and senior managers to improve process thinking and drive improvements
- Data driven improvement methods & tools
- Lean improvement methods & tools
- Value stream mapping, SQCDP, OEE, Throughput performance, SOPs, 5S, 6S, Visual Management Systems, 5 Whys, 8D, DMAIC, PFMEA
26400/611
Suitable candidates should apply immediately by calling Jack Lavis for this vacancy - on 02920 894900 or by sending your CV directly to him at
If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.
Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.
Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
