Continuous Improvement Technician

My client are currently looking to recruit an experienced Continuous Improvement Technician to join their site in North Lanarkshire. You will be working with a successful manufacturer, with a fantastic reputation within their respective market. This is an exciting time to be joining the business within the operations division, as they have just went through an impressive investment on-site and are replacing manufacturing lines with new equipment to ensure the processes are as efficient as possible. You will be directly involved with these improvements!

What's in it for you?

• Flexible holiday scheme - 33 days annual leave
• Company contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Annual salary review
• Bonus
• Discounts and cashback for selected stores and restaurants
• Healthcare cash plan
• Flexible Benefits like gym memberships, technology purchases etc
• Share schemes for eligible employees

Role Overview:

• Leading and sponsoring focussed improvement projects as well as supporting situational problem solving on a daily basis with the shop floor teams, striving to achieve root cause and putting in place '100 year fixes'. Ensuring all activities are performed cross functionally to maximise engagement
• Extending employee engagement through supporting the TRACCS that are actively running, aiding and coaching the teams to deliver their action plans and roadmaps on time
• Building motivation and ownership through tiered accountability ranging from Short Interval Control, through Tier 1 to the Daily Operations Review
• Support the delivery of training courses across the site and multi-levels of the organisation from Technical Operator to Production Manager Level, working with the CI Manager and external providers
• Using data to drive decision making and prioritisation, actively seek out improvement opportunities within the workplace and build into the Brilliance in the Making roadmap
• Driving root cause problem solving to be embedded into the business as usual culture
• Working collaboratively with the Technical Training Facilitators to support in the roll out and delivery of SOP training and validation, ensuring any improvements made are captured and relevant documentation updated

What you will need:

• Preferably a professional qualification, or equivalent proven experience in a Continuous Improvement discipline, with proven knowledge and experience of the application of Continuous Improvement systems, standards and tools and how to execute and monitor these
• Experience of working within a complex high speed production environment would be preferred
• Excellent knowledge of QSE standards ideally within a food and drink or FMCG manufacturing environment
• A high level of coaching expertise and influencing skills to help drive improvement and growth through culture, learning and experience, challenging at the appropriate times