Streamline Search Ltd
Continuous Improvement Manager
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About the Role
Our client is a well-established and highly respected structural steel fabrication and construction business, delivering complex steelwork projects across the UK and Ireland. Due to continued growth and a focus on operational excellence, they are seeking a Continuous Improvement Manager to lead improvement initiatives across their fabrication facility and wider construction operations.
Role Overview
This role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced continuous improvement professional to make a genuine impact within a growing business. Reporting to the Operations Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing a continuous improvement strategy, embedding lean principles, improving operational efficiency, and driving positive cultural change across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of a continuous improvement strategy across the business
- Promote a culture of operational excellence, lean thinking, and ongoing improvement
- Identify and eliminate waste, inefficiencies, and non-value-added activities throughout the project lifecycle
- Work collaboratively with departments including tendering, design, fabrication, delivery, and construction teams to improve processes
- Develop structured systems for capturing, evaluating, and implementing improvement opportunities
- Support teams in improving efficiency, quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction
- Monitor key performance indicators and use data to measure the success of improvement initiatives
- Embed lean manufacturing principles across all levels of the workforce
- Improve communication, collaboration, and information flow between departments
- Provide hands-on coaching and support to teams to ensure improvements are successfully implemented and sustained
- Work closely with operational teams on the workshop floor, in offices, and on-site to identify and deliver improvements
- Contribute to the continued growth and success of a respected structural steel contractor
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Position Requirements
- Previous experience leading continuous improvement initiatives within a manufacturing, fabrication, engineering, or construction environment
- Strong understanding of lean manufacturing principles and process improvement methodologies
- Proven experience identifying inefficiencies and implementing practical solutions that deliver measurable improvements
- Ability to engage and influence teams at all levels of an organisation
- Strong analytical skills with experience using data to support decision-making
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- A hands-on approach with the ability to work collaboratively across multiple departments
- Experience driving cultural change and embedding continuous improvement practices
- Structural steel or construction industry experience would be advantageous, although candidates from other engineering or manufacturing sectors will be considered
- Proactive, organised, and passionate approach to improving processes and developing people
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Position Remuneration
- Competitive salary depending on experience
- Key leadership role within a growing and ambitious structural steel contractor
- Opportunity to shape and develop the company's continuous improvement strategy
- Private Healthcare and Additional Employee Benefits
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Employee Discounts and Company Benefits
- Opportunity to work closely with teams across fabrication, engineering, and construction operations
About Streamline Search
Streamline Search is a technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex, operating across the United Kingdom. We are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy, and in accordance with GDPR, by applying to this post, you are granting us consent to process your data and contact you in relation to this application.
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