Continuous Improvement Lead

3 weeks ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Jonathan Lee Recruitment Full time

**Continuous Improvement Lead - Defence and Military Systems - Permanent - Attractive - Southwest**

A**Continuous Improvement Lead**is required to join an International Defence Systems company that designs, manufactures, and supports world leading military Systems. The successful **Continuous Improvement Lead** will be responsible for the delivery of process innovation and **continuous improvement** initiatives. The **Continuous Improvement Lead** will play an important role in helping to foster a culture of sustainable change through the creation and embedding of LEAN methodology. The **Continuous Improvement Lead**will be supporting framework, to deliver business transformation as required.

**Continuous Improvement Lead will be responsible for the following**:

- Identify and deliver service improvement activity across the business.
- Work with key business stakeholders to build a continuous improvement environment.
- Support an ongoing programme of change.
- Lead and facilitate LEAN/process improvement-based workshops to drive ideas and solutions.
- Identification and elimination of unnecessary complexity within business processes.
- Identify trends to establish a continuous improvement monitoring system.
- Assist in the development and implementation of a continuous improvement strategy.
- Take ownership of change initiatives from efficiency identification through to project delivery.
- Drive process change using staff interviews, document analysis and requirements workshops.
- Get involved with business analysis and workflow analysis.
- Devise support material based on revised processes with training, reporting & systems enhancements.
- Actively monitor project risks to foresee/identify potential problems & proactively identify solutions.
- Ensure business impact and project objectives/dependencies are identified, reported and managed.
- Complete post implementation reviews to ensure successful delivery has been achieved.
- Ensure that improvements can be made for future projects.
- Take ideas from inception to delivery, in environment that requires robust metrics to confirm success.
- Where necessary, support off site (UK and overseas) visits for CI activities.
- Deliver annual objectives set by functional manager.
- Supervise and co-ordinate CI activities.
- Undertake other additional duties that may be required from time to time.

**The Continuous Improvement Lead should have the following Qualifications Skills or Experience**:

- Educated to Degree/HND level.
- Proven continuous improvement analytical experience from a similar role.
- Experience of project management and business analysis within Engineering and Manufacturing.
- Understanding of continuous improvement concepts inc: Six Sigma, Lean, Value Stream Mapping.
- Ability to set-up, facilitate and lead service improvement and experience of process mapping.
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Office, including Project, Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Experience of designing or implementing a framework of continuous improvement in an organisation.
- Experience of hands-on implementation of continuous improvement programs and Lean solutions.
- Experience of identifying and eliminating the root cause of productivity and efficiency issues.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with all.
- Strong analytical, project and product management skills.
- Understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate into operational requirements.
- Experience of the whole project life cycle.
- Desirably accredited to Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
- Knowledge and understanding of the challenges of technology development.
- Knowledge of new product development and new product introduction projects.
- Some experience in the use of industrial MRP ERP tools.

**Security Clearance (SC) may be required due to the nature of the Defence products involved**

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.

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