Continuous Improvement Area Specialist

**Continuous Improvement Area Specialist: Oakthorpe**

Arla Foods Oakthorpe Dairy, Chequers Way, Palmers Green, London, N13 6DA

Monday-Friday days based role

**Benefits**
- Competitive salary
- Annual Pay review
- Employer pension matched up to 6% (12% total contributory)
- X4 annual salary life assurance cover
- Flexible Benefits
- buy up to 5 days annual leave, reward gateway scheme
- discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform.
- Strong career development & training (internal and external training)
- Subsidized staff canteen
- Access to discounted Arla products

**Things we’d love to tell you about our Oakthorpe site**
- Our Oakthorpe Dairy produces award winning milk and creams. The site is soon to receive a large investment over the next 18 months, with more on the horizon, making it a great time to join the team
- When Oakthorpe was built, it involved the largest crane in Europe lifting the sterilized plant in which is why the roof is V shaped.

**What will the role look like?**

You will be responsible for providing the day to day support necessary to ensure the delivery of operational targets and farmer payments.

**Other responsibilities include**:

- Responsible for operational standards in the Continuous Improvement area
- Responsible for reduction of planned downtime and increase line speed through data analyses and systematic CI work
- Responsible for enabling and coaching operators and technical operators in operational standards
- Contribute to a healthy, inclusive and safe work environment and role model our character mindset
- Ensure awareness and compliance to quality and food safety requirements within LCO Area

**Area Specialist tasks**:

- Owns, analyses and tracks asset performance data incl. data quality and completeness
- Owns plan for improvement of OEE for line(s)
- Ensures that the Continuous Improvement Areas improvement activities are quantified and reflected in OneCI
- Owns operational standards and corresponding competence development in the Line Team
- Defines, process confirms and improves operational standards including OAC
- Trains & coaches Line Team to ensure performance according to operational standards and secure right use of IT systems
- Optimizes existing processes by regularly conducting Kaizen workshops, relevant analyses and process confirmations
- Coordinate & support implementation of new digital tools, products & ways of working and secure onboarding of Line Team
- Initiates and drives Continuous Improvement initiatives in collaboration with Line Team
- Role models by actively using data and deploying lean and APS tools in a structured way

**Background/experience**
- SE Food Production, DK Dairy Operator KOLD, EDEN or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of LEAN principles and data management
- Excellent IT skills with programs such as Excel. Working knowledge of SAP would be preferred but not essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

**Things We’d Love To Tell You About Arla**
- We are a farmer
- owned cooperative. That means we are committed to partnering with farmers so they are guaranteed a fair price for their milk.
- We experimented with poo powered trucks (google it
- you won’t regret it), and built the world’s first ever 100% carbon neutral dairy. All as part of our ongoing commitment to combatting climate change.
- We are the producer of Lurpak, one of the world’s most iconic butter brands.
- We are a Danish business, operating across the UK, Europe, Asia, The Middle East, North America, South America and other regions across the globe.

**Next steps**

**We have a purpose for Good**

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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