Continuous Improvement Technician Bridgwater, England
Job description
Refresco the world’s leading independent soft drinks manufacturer is seeking an agile, passionate, engaging, Continuous Improvement Technician to identify and execute continuous improvements via lean six sigma methods for our highly automated, state-of-the-art, manufacturing site in Bridgwater. Refresco has a significant £multi-million spend planned over the next 3 years and this is a pivotal role to help us achieve our ambitious goals.
Continuous Improvement Technician – Bridgwater, Somerset
Monday – Friday, Day shift
Competitive salary, benefits, performance bonus
What’s In It for you:
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Lots of recognition for your work – very rewarding
- Opportunity to work with our other sites in the UK/abroad.
- Lots of autonomy
About the Role of CI Technician:
Reporting into the Continuous Improvement Manager, you will be responsible for identifying and implementing improvements throughout the factory supporting the operational excellence agenda on the site and identifying multiple opportunities to improve production efficiency and the site performance.
This role is all about identifying areas of improvement within out production processes. You will need to be able to identify areas of improvement, support solutions, and communicate effectively with various teams internally to achieve a better practice/solution.
Days to day duties of a CI Technician include:
- Analysing data reports and identifying opportunities for improvements.
- Engage with stakeholders to deliver improvements – facilitate with various departments
- Ensure the best work methods are in place for quality, cost and delivery whilst above all maintaining safety are captured, trained and continuously improved.
- Actively communicate with the site CI Manager and various teams within Refresco to standardize the approach. Where possible adopt/share Best Practices.
- Coaching & developing Continuous Improvement skills among team members and peers, working with the shop floor.
- Root cause analyst
- Generally, we find a lot of causes are from user error which will require you to support on training of staff.
About You:
You will need previous experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, ideally in Food or Drinks production, FMCG or Pharmaceuticals. Experience being involved with continuous improvements within production or quality improvements would also be required.
Lean Six Sigma, black or green belt knowledge would be desirable.
You will need to be a great communicator to engage and collaborate with various internal stakeholders. At times you will need to influence, persuade, and negotiate to push your ideas for improvement through.
About Refresco:
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're thirsty for more and growing fast which is why we invested £1.25 billion in expanding our global manufacturing footprint making us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from 59 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started…
Our UK Business unit has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsburys, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacture for branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it’s packed in Cartons, PET, Aseptic PET or Cans, we ensure that our products are not only manufactured to the highest quality standards, but they get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.
Refresco is an equal opportunities employer.
Find out more about our Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
If you believe you are a great match for this opportunity, we want to hear from you.
In addition to working for a growing, successful, secure, and stable company such as
Refresco, with career growth and development open to all, also offer the following:
· Competitive salary, Monday to Friday with an early Friday finish - 38 hours per week
· A bonus scheme dependent on the achievement of targets.
· The chance to earn a refer-a-friend bonus.
· Access to a sports and social fund.
· Free, on-site parking.
· Good company pension scheme.
· Competitive holiday allowance.
· Life assurance.
· Holiday purchase scheme.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Company car
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
Application question(s):
- Please state your salary requirements
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: (14757)
