Continuous Improvement Coordinator

3 months ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Finsbury Food Group Full time

**Continuous Improvement Coordinator**

**Location**: Memory Lane Cakes, Cardiff

**Shift**: Monday to Friday

**Salary**: Competitive with Opportunity for Growth

We have an exciting opportunity for a Continuous Improvement Coordinator to join our manufacturing team at our Memory Lane Cakes site as part of Finsbury Food Group.

Our Memory Lane Cakes site is part of our Cake Division within Finsbury Food Group. They make over 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes. They employ over 850 people on site and the sites runs 24/7, which encompasses a culture of teamwork, friendly and respectful leadership and a focus on continuous improvement at all levels.

Although not essential, this role would be ideal for an Engineering graduate with a good understanding of LEAN methodology, who is looking to cut their teeth putting this knowledge in to practice. Ir is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses, along with great opportunities for growth and development.

The CI Coordinator is a fast-paced role that will help identify ways to make our production process more efficient and profitable. It will help facilitate a culture of continuous improvement and LEAN methodologies across our cross-functional manufacturing team. You will help embed the Company’s Operational Excellence programme by supporting and coaching manufacturing teams in the tools and processes required..

To be successful in this role, you will need to be comfortable working at pace in a changing environment. Persistence is a must as is the ability to communicate well with people at all levels. An analytical and logical mind, along with good IT skills, will help you identify waste and loss in our processes. A basic understanding of LEAN tools is also required.

**This is what you’ll actually do**

You will support the CI Lead to in analysing our end-to-end production processes to identify waste and losses. Once identified, you will support project teams to eliminate these wastes by coaching team members in the necessary tools and methods required. You will also help implement systematic ways of working aimed at improving the efficiency of our factory.

**Ideally this is you**
- A good understanding of LEAN tools and methodology.
- Comfortable working at pace in a changing environment.
- Able to think logically and carry out workplace analysis.
- Comfortable communicating with people at all levels.

**What’s in it for you**
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival
- Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
- Death in Service Benefit
- Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
- Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform
- Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral - T&C’s dependent)
- Employee Recognition Awards
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course)
- An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals.

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