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Continuous Improvement Business Partner

3 months ago


Glenrothes, Fife, United Kingdom Donaldson Group Full time

Continuous Improvement Business Partner

Competitive salary

Discretionary bonus scheme

Flexible working patterns

30 days' holiday with additional days linked to service

Donaldson Group, established in 1860, is one of UK's largest, privately owned timber companies. We are a family of 11 businesses, ranging from B2B, retail, ecommerce, all with shared values and a common vision, driven by the desire to always do good. We are focused on always providing a number one customer experience, embracing innovation, and doing things in a sustainable way, not just for our business but also for the communities we operate in. But most of all, our People are at the heart of everything we do, which is why we are committed to nurturing and empowering our 1,500+ colleagues across the UK.

As a 6th generation family-owned business, Donaldson Group is committed to providing colleague benefits that are truly valuable.


Benefits include but are not limited to: 30 days' holiday, inclusive of Statutory Bank Holidays, Length of service awards, Company sick pay, Employee Assistance Programme, (24/7 helpline, counselling sessions, legal, debt and life management advice line).


The Role


As part of a team and guided by our CI vision, you will work closely with our leadership team, as well as our cross-functional teams, in order to identify, develop and introduce cost-effective CI solutions as well as performance improvement opportunities for all aspects of the business.


Key elements of this full-time role will involve:

  • Promote the Donaldson Group Lean vision to drive and influence a mindset of CI throughout the business.
  • Jointly design and introduce a lean management system, tailored to our organisation, gives great communication through daily tier meetings, creates empowerment and a team of problem solvers.
  • Develop simple reporting KPIs and dashboards within the Lean Management System and offer guidance and support on gap closure.
  • Create a culture of waste identification and elimination throughout all areas of the business.
  • Adopt a participative style to offer guidance and provide leadership in the strategy and execution of CI.
  • Engage with various functions to assess and deploy the appropriate CI tools & techniques to establish robust processes.
  • Introduce CI best practice within our various service sectors and share throughout the organisation.
  • Promote, teach, and coach the use of problemsolving tools throughout the organisation and demonstrate the effectiveness of CI through the practical use of problem solving.
  • Provide training and ongoing coaching in CI methodologies.
  • Develop and coown CI roadmap to improve flow of materials and transactions (targeting lead time reduction to drive capacity creation).
  • Create and deploy a suitable site lean audit process and foster healthy cross site completion.
  • Provide crosscollaboration team support to develop all areas of the business.
  • Lean Certification or other Lean Six Sigma qualification.
  • Experience of CI/Lean methodologies within both manufacturing and service sectors leading Kaizen and deploying Lean tools and principles.
  • Introduced or have been exposed to a Lean Management System.
  • Proven experience in managing, motivating, and influencing team behaviours.
years of operations/service experience with demonstrated process improvements.

  • Experience of training others in Lean / CI practice.
  • Experience of change management.
  • Experience of coordinating and leading successful crossfunctional improvements.
  • Proven experience of successful 5S deployment in an organisation.
  • Working experience with functional leaders to establish and execute a CI roadmap to deliver baseline results.
  • Proficient in all Microsoft suite packages.
  • Track record of having managed and facilitated change.
  • Be a great communicator and coach of others.


As this role covers all our UK sites then applicants must be prepared to travel and hold a full UK driving licence.