Operational Excellence Manager

Operational Excellence Manager South Wales

A global business with market leading brands is looking to recruit a skilled Operational Excellence Manager on a permanent basis. This is a critical position within the business responsible for designing & driving the Lean Improvements Program and the deployment at the site. The Operational Excellence Manager will facilitate Strategy Deployment, Project Management and Daily Performance Management processes. They will coach functional heads and team members in lean tools. to ensure the site has the organisational capability to achieve strategic goals of the business.

Key Responsibilities:

·Setting Lean Improvements Strategy for the Site

·Designing & Aligning Framework & Processes to Business strategy.

·Design & Standardisation of Site Strategy Review Process and Daily Performance Management Process

·Ensuring the key elements of Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People are embedded in our Lean processes and tools

·Training – educating and coaching lean tools

·Problem Solving – supporting colleagues at all levels to ensure that they are competent in appropriate problem-solving tools to ensure that we solve the problem to root cause

·Key Driver of Standardisation of Improvements & Process Confirmation Standards.

·Sharing Best Practice – sharing best practice initiatives across the business.

·Standardisation – ensure that all lean tools deployed are standardised across the business.

·Continuous Improvement – supporting functional heads continuous improvement activity.

The ideal candidate will have similar continuous improvement experience in a heavy engineering fast paced business, have excellent understanding of lean concept problem solving and a proven track record of lean application & deployment.