Job Purpose

Role Description

To ensure optimal operational efficiency at the lowest cost through the delivery of targets against the strategic objectives of the function: Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and People.

Work with the Head of Operational Performance Transformation and General Manager to support the delivery of an agreed manufacturing vision and strategy through continuous improvement, ensuring optimum efficiencies, effectiveness, and profitability, initiating and implementing change as appropriate to meet the needs of the business through the identification and sharing of best practice, driving out waste and variability, and the creation of a proactive improvement culture.

Support the vision, to be the home of operational excellence and the customer’s first choice food and drinks manufacturer.

Dimensions

• Indirect reports
  • c.400 employees across the Bradford site
  • c.55 employees across the Glasgow site
• Contributes to budgeted production volumes

Principal Accountabilities

• Have an in-depth understanding of the Princes Operating System (POS) and maturity matrix, and sites must win battle plans.
• Support and lead lean manufacturing work practices including Floor Management System, 5S, Asset Excellence, Problem Solving (including root cause analysis) to drive continuous improvement activity at the site.
• In conjunction with the Manufacturing Managers, roll out the consolidated medium to long-term implementation timetable for continuous improvement and be accountable for maintaining and reporting the progress against the Princes Operating System (POS) for the Manufacturing sites ensuring at all times alignment with the objectives of the business.
• Support the Manufacturing Managers in performing a detailed gap analysis across site processes, performance, and Operational Plans affecting any aspect of the manufacturing process.
• Support the Group Head of Operational Performance Transformation and Manufacturing Managers in the development of the appropriate technical and behavioral skills to enable a culture of continuous sustained improvement in achieving low-cost, high-quality operations.
• Support, prioritize, coordinate, and lead/facilitate teams to implement sustained improvements to reduce factory costs, and ensure effective employment of people resources and facilities through successful project delivery in conjunction with the CI Plan for the Manufacturing sites, driving a culture of performance improvement with the General Manager.
• Maximise people involvement and engagement in change projects to develop a change-accepting culture across the Manufacturing sites.
• Coach and train all site-based colleagues so that they have the prerequisite knowledge and skills to apply CI concepts and tools on an ongoing basis.
• Challenge the status quo, support the General Manager in creating a culture of best practice and continuous improvement that focuses on the elimination of waste in all forms by initiating and facilitating the development of a team-working culture in pursuit of highly participative and highly motivated teams, in order to reinforce the continuous improvement culture.
• These are the key daily tasks, not a comprehensive list of all tasks undertaken by the jobholder. Flexibility is required by the business & this will be agreed with the Individual’s line manager.
• All colleagues should carry out their duties in a responsible manner giving due consideration to Safety, Environmental & Quality procedures.
• All colleagues should carry out their duties in a responsible manner giving due consideration to Safety, Environmental & Quality procedures. Specific responsibilities can be found in the Health & Safety Management System.
• Contribute to the health & safety of self and others by applying health and safety principles to the required standards whilst undertaking designated activities and tasks.