Join the Samworth Brothers Family!
Working for Walker & Son, part of the Samworth Brothers Group, a 4th generation family business,
we offer competitive benefits to all our colleagues including:
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Private Health Scheme
• Employee Discount Scheme
• Annual Pay Review and Profit related pay
• Training and Progression opportunities
The Opportunity
We have the opportunity for you to join our team as Continuous Improvement Lead, you will be required to drive the Continuous Improvement culture, with Lean six sigma methodology, throughout the business to bring about sustained improvement within our processes whilst building people engagement.
Some of what you can expect to be doing includes:
• Driving a Continuous Improvement culture with pace and impact on profitable growth through the application of - methodology.
• Challenging existing processes in manufacturing and transactional areas to generate and sustained tangible and intangible improvements utilising DMAIC methodology whilst building people engagement in the change process.
• Be able to respond to the level of maturity of the Continuous Improvement journey when working with others adopting a driver, facilitator or supporter stance depending on the given situation or level of understanding.
• Being able to paint the vision of “what good looks like “when working with others to build engagement and achieve quick wins.
• Responsible for the provision of appropriate training within operations to deploy Continuous Improvement methodology to bring about sustained improvement. To coach others in Continuous Improvement methodology for more complex issues or on request.
• Ensuring all elements of DMAIC methodology can be applied robustly according to the immediate needs including own work. This includes the control measures needed for sustained improvement.
The Right Person
We are one big team and we look for people to join our business who want to work with others but take responsibility for doing their best every day to help to make the business a success.
• Proven ability to improve performance through change
• Practical working knowledge of Lean and six sigma
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
• HNC or equivalent in manufacturing / operations (desirable)
• Training in CI methodology
• Proven experience of incorporating Continuous Improvement into the business strategy
• Project Management experience
• Proven experience of leading CI within a Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) environment
• Masters degree in Lean/manufacturing
• Management qualification - Level 5
• Train the Trainer qualification
The Company
Walker and Son is part of the Samworth Brothers group, a long established and successful chilled food manufacturer and market leader, supplying cold pies to a majority of the major retailers. The business has experienced outstanding growth over the last few years whilst continuing to focus on delivering quality products and a first class service to our customers.
We take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.
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