About This Role
Leading initiatives to optimize manufacturing processes, enhance efficiency, and drive operational excellence is the core of this role. The Continuous Improvement Manager will be a highly skilled and proactive individual responsible for implementing continuous improvement programs.
Responsibilities
- Identify and facilitate process improvement projects, training/workshops to drive cultural change
- Conduct root cause analysis to determine metrics, troubleshoot manufacturing/business and production issues, material flow, project plans, production capacity, facility design and create process documentation
- Carry out advanced data collection and analysis for process mapping, develop budgets and cost analysis to determine project feasibility
- Design, install and debug tooling and capital equipment as it relates to process improvement
- Drive value stream mapping to define "As-Is Analysis" and the transition to Future State
- Develop and conduct compliance audits, program evaluations and reviews to drive results with the fortitude to ensure change is permanent
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree / HND in an Engineering, Manufacturing or Quality discipline
- Proven lean and continuous improvement specialist or engineer, with experience of leading and bedding in an ongoing programme of continuous improvement and change management across an engineering or manufacturing site
- Training in Lean manufacturing principles/Kaizen/Six Sigma facilitation
- Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written, problem solving and analytical skills
- Strong leadership skills, ability to learn and apply new concepts and overcome obstacles with change
- Previous exposure to a high volume high SKU environment
- Ability to work with and influence others in a fast paced environment
- Ability to work shifts as required
- Proven experience delivering results through others
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to lead projects and change management activities
- Time management skills; ability to prioritize and multi-task while producing high quality work
- Strong organizational and planning skills
- Proven track record in delivering results by working with cross-functional teams
- Able to manage confidential and sensitive information
Benefits
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
