Nestlé Purina
Manufacturing Excellence Specialist
Sudbury
Salary: Circa £43k basic salary plus companywide benefits
This is a full-time permanent opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like for you.
Position Summary
We are looking to recruit a Manufacturing Excellence Specialist, reporting to the Production Manager, as a Manufacturing Excellence Specialist, you will drive continuous improvement progression, loss intelligence and continuous improvement projects in your area of responsibility.
You will ensure that a PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) and SDCA Standardise-Do-Check-Act) approach is understood and followed across site, that root cause analysis is correctly identified, and tools correctly deployed.
You will act as back up to the Line Performance Manager role and be developed as a successor to the LPM role.
At Purina PetCare, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too
At Nestlé PURINA Pet Care, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too. As a world leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestlé PURINA has been helping pet’s live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK’s best loved brands including BAKERS®, GO-CAT®, WINALOT®, FELIX®, and BONIO, trusted and bought by millions of pet owners.
A day in the life of Manufacturing Excellence Specialist…..
Working closely with engineers and pillar leaders from the different departments, the ME Specialist will support with their strategy, application, and delivery of Focused Improvement practices. In addition, you will help identify improvement opportunities and lead a number of improvement projects throughout the year to deliver business needs. You will have good in-depth knowledge of and experience on TPM implementation and improving the skills of production and maintenance teams on common problem-solving and AM tools.
Other key responsibilities include:
- Train and coach teams in the correct us of Continuous improvement tools and techniques to drive effective PDCA and SDCA cycles.
- Drive implementation of TPM practices delivering tangible results and culture change.
- Support the cascade of business and factory priorities into local Master Plan roadmaps.
- Use data gathering, tidying, analytics and visualisation techniques to effectively identity, prioritise and define projects.
- Lead and coach Lean Six Sigma projects using the DMAIC and SMED framework.
- Be a production co-pilot on our local continuous improvement journey.
- Benchmark with other factories within the market to capture, deploy and share best practices in the factory.
- Continually focus on Key losses and build awareness and competence on the key tools to build a Zero loss mindset in the Local leadership team and shopfloor
What will make you successful?
We are looking for someone who has a passion and commitment for improving and adding value to manufacturing processes, committed to compliance to factory standards and shows initiative.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment, including exposure to front line production management
- Experience on TPM implementation
- Proficient use of MS Office tools
- Proficient use of specialised IT tools is an advantage (i.e. Minitab, R Studio, Anaconda, Power Bi, Power Apps, Flow, SAP HANA)
- Proven record of delivering continuous improvement projects and stakeholder management
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification is an advantage
What you need to know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.
Job advert closing date 19 April 2024
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
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