Continuous Improvement Lead

**Continuous Improvement Lead / Food Manufacturing / 6 month contract / Immediate start.**

**_Recra are working in partnership_** with a leading food manufacturer who are keen to add an Interim CI Lead to join the team for a 6 month rolling contract.

**_PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:_**
- The Continuous Improvement Lead drives sustainable continuous improvements, delivering breakthrough results in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC), while building cultural change throughout the organisation.
- The CI Lead works closely with Operations and department employees to achieve results.
- This position requires strong project management skills and hands-on leadership skills, along with a passion for people development.

**_ Main Responsibilities:_**
- Leads and facilitates project workstreams day to day activities
- Help the team to deliver the outputs regarding the project plan
- Facilitates FMEA and troubleshooting,PPM and autonomous activities from beginning through completion across various work groups
- Help to create procedures for standard operations
- Monitors weekly project activities and reports
- Ensures that corrective actions have been developed, implemented and are effective.
- Works with management teams to sustain results
- Maintains and update the site’s SQDC (safety, quality, delivery, cost) metrics
- Develops standard operations sheets and all applicable forms/flow charts
- Develops tracking tools and measures to support CI initiatives
- Develops business case justification for projects and initiatives
- Benchmarks performance across the facilities and industry to identify areas of opportunity.
- Challenges the status quo to find ways to optimize manufacturing performance to deliver superior results
- Builds a CI culture across the organization.

**Safety**:

- Maintain and improve people's safety within the working environment by investigating to conclusion all accidents and near misses
- To raise near misses to improve people safety
- Work with colleagues to identify and eliminate Health & Safety risks to all staff
- Lead by example - Ensure personal behaviours demonstrate zero tolerance to all Health & Safety Issues within area of responsibility

**Training**: carry out training of others as required in any aspect of role or as requested
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**Communication**: play an active role in formal and informal 2 way written and verbal communication systems and processes

**Behaviours**: act in line with our Europe Snacks values of Entrepreneurship, Excellence and Care Deliver KPIs as defined for the role e.g., Safety, Delivery, Cost, Quality, People, Continuous Improvement and as agreed as part of objectives
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**_ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/SKILL REQUIREMENTS (educational plus other requirements):_**
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university preferred,
- Two (2) or more years in a manufacturing environment.
- One (1) to three (3) years of CI experience, preferred.
- Previous experience in building up PPM and autonomous maintenance activities.
- Interested and capable in people skill development.
- Very strong communication and documentation skills.
- Demonstrated effective team player The CI Specialist possesses extensive facilitation skills and hands-on experience in continuous improvement manufacturing activities.

**Other**

The CI Specialist needs to also possess leadership skills to drive the overall CI process across the facility, without having direct reporting relationships at the plant. He/she will work closely with the CI Manager but must also be able to leverage his/her power of influence with the Plant Manager and the site leadership team.

For more information,
** please contact the team at Recra.