As an Continuous Improvement Manager, you will work closely with our site teams to embed Operational Excellence and Digital technologies consistently. You will lead, coordinate and deliver process improvement projects aligned to agreed business priorities. Your primary focus will be to deploy Operational Excellence and Digital technologies into operations delivering value to the business and positive outcomes measured through Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery indicators.
Essential
- Experience of delivering Operational Excellence with data analysis and colleague engagement to drive tangible results- or similar experience of delivering OpEx / Lean / Continuous Improvement activities and outcomes in an external business
- Experience of delivering focused improvement events resulting in validated step change in key performance indicators and enhancing colleague knowledge and capability
- Knowledgeable on the latest warehousing and distribution best practices from across the Logistics industry and has a self-interest in remaining informed of emerging concepts and solutions
- Experience of coaching and mentoring others
- Proven track record of an ability to influence internal stakeholders and external clients and at all levels of organisational hierarchy to drive change
- Excellent communication skills; spoken, written, presenting
- Able to demonstrate flexibility in working anywhere across the UK Logistics division
- An appetite to learn more about Industry 4.0 technologies and apply digital solutions to applicable operational areas and processes
Desirable
- Experience of delivering OpEx / Lean / CI activities in different sectors; Automotive, Consumer, Defence, Health, Technology
- Flexible to work in UL locations overseas when requested
- Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certified
- Experience of working with and implementing digital capabilities (particularly RPA, Automation, Cobots and data science technologies; AR/VR, IoT, Big Data, Simulation, Machine Learning etc)
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