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Focused Improvement Specialist

2 months ago


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About Graze

Graze is a leading manufacturer of healthy and sustainable snacks, committed to rewriting the snacking rulebook. Our mission is to provide delicious treats that are good for you and the planet, while promoting transparency and accountability in the snack industry.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Focused Improvement Specialist to join our engineering team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for driving process improvements, enhancing safety protocols, and optimizing manufacturing efficiency.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage improvement projects from initial problem statements through to sustained and proven actions.
  • Work to the highest safety standards, identifying hazards and making improvements to equipment safety, conducting regular audits and safety behavioural observations.
  • Deliver projects on time, to a high quality, and with good consideration to value for any investment recommendations.
  • Improve the efficiency and performance of existing designs, machinery, equipment, systems, and products.
  • Cross-functional working with other Graze functions as well as your own engineering team to develop and implement opportunities that improve Safety, Quality, OEE, and costs.
  • Provide engineering advice and support to key stakeholders.
Day-to-Day Tasks
  • Analyse key metrics from the wealth of captured production data to understand trends and translate them into improvement opportunities (problem statements).
  • Create and utilise tools to investigate causes of the problems, e.g. RCA, 5WHY, 5S, DMAIC.
  • Test/iterate improvements to machinery equipment set up to achieve fast-paced solutions.
  • Implement processes and standards improvements and ensure that measures to increase compliance are in place.
  • Formalise the sustaining of solutions through analysing and sharing of results achieved, highlighting what underpins the successes.
  • Identify and create value-based proposals for modifications to deliver further improvements.
  • Drive the implementation of pursued modifications through working effectively with other teams and suppliers.
  • Establish and build great working relationships with current and future suppliers.
  • Continually review the improvement processes and work with colleagues to change ways of working to leverage better results.
Requirements
  • A strong working knowledge of the requirements of Health & Safety within engineering, including Risk Assessment and LOTO.
  • Proven experience within an engineering department in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
  • An inquisitive nature with a huge interest in how things work, with proven excellent problem-solving skills.
  • Experience working with continuous improvement techniques, e.g. RCA, 5WHY, 5S, DMAIC.
  • Formal Engineering qualifications, either having completed a recognised apprenticeship or degree.
  • Experience of fault finding and repair of electrical and pneumatic circuits and components, and additionally experience with PLC software development and/or debugging.
  • Able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
  • Able to communicate effectively with the engineering, operations, and quality teams.
  • Experience of Microsoft Office.
  • Excited about taking on new challenges.
  • Experience working to tight timelines.
  • A fast learning, self-starter with great attention to detail.
What We Expect in Your First 6 Months
  • A proactive approach to establishing an understanding of the manufacturing processes on site, and the key elements that you can impact.
  • Analyse production line loss analysis and use problem-solving techniques to identify root causes of these losses on an allocated line.
  • Develop and implement permanent fixes to the identified root causes.
  • Prioritise safety and quality improvements initiatives, demonstrating a commitment to ensuring the highest standards are upheld throughout our engineering processes.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance safety protocols and implement quality control measures to optimize our operations and deliver superior products to our customers.
  • Review and provide documented recommendations for potential site efficiency opportunities.
What's in it for You?

You'll be part of a company where you can have fun, enjoy free snacks, and pick up new skills to really take your experience to the next level. We want you to be your authentic self every single day, so we create an environment where you feel like you belong. Plus, we have a dedicated diversity and inclusion employee resource group that you're welcome to join

We encourage active learning, so you can enjoy networking events, learning lunches, and even more formal qualifications - whatever you need to do the best job possible. You'll be working with some seriously smart, informed, helpful, funny, dedicated (and very, very modest) people at Graze HQ. You'll be part of an open, inclusive, and pioneering team. What could be better?

We offer all the standard benefits, including a pension, a yearly bonus, health insurance, and so much more. We are Food Focussed on our Factory, so our canteen is supplied for your breakfast and lunch, on us. We also offer one paid volunteering day and one health day each year on top of your annual leave allowance, to use however you wish.