training specialist Milton Keynes, England
Job description
Continuous Improvement Manager – Refresco UK - Milton Keynes
Competitive salary, performance bonus, good company pension, life assurance and private healthcare
Refresco the world’s leading independent soft drinks manufacturer seek an agile, passionate, engaging, Continuous Improvement Manager to identify, lead and execute the continuous improvement strategy via lean six sigma methods for our highly automated, growing, drinks canning manufacturing site at Refresco Milton Keynes.
This is a superb career opportunity, with one of the world leaders in drinks manufacturing, if you are looking to progress your manufacturing career in the direction of project management / continuous improvement.
About the Role
As Continuous Improvement Manager you are a key member of the site team, responsible for defining and leading the operational excellence (PEX) programme at Milton Keynes, identifying multiple opportunities to improve production efficiency (OEE) and reduce waste.
You will have many continuous improvement projects in process at any one time following the standard methodology, you will be energetic, passionate about what you do and prepared to change direction at any point in a project to deliver the following PEX programme at MK:
- Create a CI culture at the Milton Keynes site, creating a full toolkit of methods to improve the site OEE performance.
- Evaluate operational and financial data and recommend continuous improvement initiatives.
- Project manage approved Continuous Improvement projects by coordinating all resources and monitoring progress and cost to the conclusion of the project.
- Engage all your colleagues in continuous improvement, through training, coaching and leading effective CI meetings so they apply excellent lean techniques and methodologies.
- Develop department KPI's (dashboards and control functions).
About You
You will need previous experience leading continuous improvement in a fast pace manufacturing environment, managing, and delivering multiple continuous improvement projects, ideally in Food or Drinks production, FMCG or Pharmaceuticals.
You will ideally have qualifications in Lean Six Sigma, black or green belt, but this is not essential, but you will need a TPM background if you don't have formal lean qualifications.
As the continuous improvement leader and on-site expert, you will need to be a great communicator so you can engage, train and coach all your colleagues in the CI PEX programme, translating CI techical language into simple, easy to understand terms.
There is lots of excellent performance data available, but your skill is also to analyse the data, drill down and identify key actions.
You will also need strong influencing skills, so you can persuade and negotiate to push your ideas for improvement through both with senior managers, leadership team colleagues and colleagues on the factory floor.
Ultimately we are looking for someone who reflects our Refresco Values, as we know these are what have made us successful and will continue to make us successful in the future.
Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
Our pay and benefits at Refresco are competitive:
We will encourage you to learn and grow while at work, grasping all opportunities that come your way. Opportunities for growth and development in a secure and established global firm. Our benefits include:
- Competitive salary, Monday to Friday - 38 hours per week.
- Access to a sports and social fund.
- Free, on-site parking.
- Company pension scheme.
- Competitive holiday allowance.
- Life assurance.
About Refresco
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 14 billion litres of soft drinks from nearly 80 manufacturing plants in Europe, North America and Australia and we’re only just getting started. We have grown from just 2 sites in 1999. Our Group Headquarters are based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,600 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets, plus some of the best known UK drinks brands such as Monster Energy, Ocean Spray and Innocent.
From the purchasing of the raw materials such as fruit juices and CO2, through to the finished product delivered to your table, we cover the full manufacturing cycle for our customers. And, whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards.
Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.
