Continuous Improvement Facilitator

Protea Recruitment is proud to be working with a well-known food manufacturer based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is looking for an experienced CI Facilitator.

• Deliver improvement projects to support the operational teams to continuously improve plant output whilst meeting the requirements of a complex, high volume production site.
  
• Support the delivery of financial budget aligned with the delivery of KPI s (waste, TOS, efficiency, machine uptime, planned tonnage and accidents).
  
• Leverage and develop site capability on CI tools and techniques (Lean Six-sigma, Kaizen, SMED, 5S, Line-balancing, Centrelines).
  
• Support the maintenance and drive improvements in our OEE performance management system (Redzone).
  
• Work in partnership with site functions, in particular Operations and Engineering to deliver line annual targets.
  
• Support embedding site principles as part of the sites Improvement Strategy
  
• Demonstrate SHE principals and cultural behaviours to support site culture
  
• Support and motivate the team to recognise performance and drive robust succession planning
  
• Training of CI activities and roll out of activities across the site.
  

Requirements

• Clear understanding and application of continuous improvement tools and techniques, in particular DMAIC, SMED, 5S, Centre Lining, SIC, Kaizen and Line Balancing
  
• Experience working with production OEE software systems focused on maintenance and assets control
  
• Experience in analysing and presenting reports
  
• Minimum of 2 years experience in an FMCG environment
  
• Can demonstrate an ability to think strategically
  
• Lean Six-sigma black belt or relevant qualification preferred
  
• Degree qualified or equivalent experience/ graduate calibre or formal qualification or experience in manufacturing excellence
  
• Level 2 Food Safety/Hygiene qualification