Continuous Improvement Lead – Food – Craigavon

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Full time
Location: Craigavon
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Job offered by: VanRath
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VANRATH are delighted to be assisting a prestigious Food based FMCG Manufacturing Company in NI and Ireland with the recruitment of a

Business Excellence Manager.

This is a prestigious organisation and the successful individual will reap the rewards of a company that is thriving and places immense value on their staff. Permanent

position - Monday - Friday - Office is based in Craigavon. Salary : Fully Negotiable + Bonus + Fantastic Benefits Package & Working Environment Job Purpose The Business Excellence Manager will be responsible for reviewing processes and procedures across the organisation with the purpose to refine and improve the levels of efficiency and performance. They will have the responsibility of end-to-end change management including ensuring that our people will successfully change their current ways of working to achieve the optimum performance. Making the company more efficient, streamlining processes, putting plans into place and making recommendations. For this, the Business Excellence Manager will need to utilise different change management and continuous improvement tools, encourage and empower our people and mentor and coach our people to ensure the improvements are embedded as part of our culture. Conducting an assessment of the current processes, what they could become and the gap analysis across the business which identifies opportunities for process improvement, automation/robotics, waste removal and cost reduction. Identifying the changes in processes and procedures that are needed to deliver the identified improvements. Defining the objectives and scope of the improvement plan and establishing a clear implementation plan. Introducing and driving continuous improvement to processes and procedures across the business using various business improvement techniques. Lead the measurement and analysis of the changes and improvements and create KPI's or performance standards for the improved processes. Successfully manage and deliver the changes by engaging and empowering our staff to think differently about what they do, how they do it and how to change it for the better. Fostering the culture of continuous improvements/lean across the business including communication plans, identifying and effectively managing the barriers to change and maximising engagement and ownership across the business. Supporting and following all food safety and food hygiene policies and practices, ensuring that specified policies and practices are adhered to. Fully understanding product and customer specifications and all aspects of 'quality.' The Ideal Person: Continuous Improvement qualifications such as value stream mapping, lean six sigma green, or black belt. Minimum 3 years' experience in change management including end-to-end responsibility for initiatives. Minimum 3 years' experience in continuous improvement methodologies such as 5S, Lean, Kaizens, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, 5Y's, Kanban and value stream mapping etc. Previous experience in the food industry and the legal requirements which are associated with food manufacturing are highly preferred. For further information on this vacancy please apply via the link below or contact

Jack Groves

for a confidential discussion via Vanrath.

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