Business Improvement Engineer

3 weeks ago


Moulton Park Industrial Estate, United Kingdom Greencore Full time

**1. Driving Automation Implementation - Improving efficiency via automation of manual tasks and eliminating or reducing health & safety risks from manual tasks**
- Identifying and quantifying opportunities to automate labour intensive or high-risk tasks
- Developing and writing business cases to secure Capital Investment for improvement initiatives - including financial payback, supplier quotations etc. Ensure User Requirement Specifications (URS) have been agreed cross functionally by the internal stakeholders.Manage internal and external stakeholders during implementation to ensure a successful, on time launch meeting all aspects of the URS.
- Acting as the site point of contact with the Group Engineering & Automation teams for strategic automation projects. Managing internal and external stakeholders during trial and commissioning stages to ensure a successful, on time launch.

**2. Drive Manufacturing Efficiency - Improve efficiency of existing equipment to improve Service Level, Direct and Indirect Labour and Material Costs**
- Challenge the Status Quo - Analysing machine performance and conducting line studies to identify and resolve the major causes of downtime, performance loss and waste.
- Participating in top loss meeting to identify line efficiency opportunities and using root cause analysis to identify appropriate counter measures.
- Running trials to understand optimum performance settings of machines, benchmark best practice with suppliers, sister sites.
- Support the development and upskilling of the depositor/machine operator population as necessary to ensure any reliability and efficient operation of equipment to designed/optimised performance.
- Development of new Preventative Maintenance Routines to embed long term fixes
- Working with internal and external stakeholders to design machine modifications (or new machines) to drive improvements in performance
- Running studies to understand and simplify equipment changeover activity
- Develop good practice and pro-actively share amongst the GME community?

**3. Drive Capability (Capacity) - Improve capacity constrained manufacturing processes to achieve expected Service level and support customer growth requirements**
- Process and Speed Capacity analysis to identify process bottlenecks.
- Shopfloor OEE and Yield Observations to identify opportunities to improve capacity via top loss reduction
- Support the site Engineering team as necessary to ensure any additional equipment bought to increase capacity is designed and specified to optimise manufacturing cost and quality and incorporates best available technology in use at other sites.

**Why Greencore?**
**You may not have heard of us, but we’re sure you’ve tried our products. We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,000 colleagues across 16 world-class manufacturing sites and 18 distribution depots across the UK. We supplyall the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals.**

Here at **Northampton**, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products every day. We are the solesupplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.

**What we’re looking for**:

- Strong mechanical engineering background within a Food Manufacturing environment
- Robust root cause analysis skills with ability to identify permanent solutions
- Good communication skills with ability to engage people in the need for change
- Awareness of Lean improvement techniques with willingness to learn

**What you’ll get in return**:

- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Pension up to 8% matched
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.



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