Operational Excellence Lead

·         Performing site diagnostic/assessments to highlight opportunities for improvement- in line with budget setting cycle

·         Informing site leadership team & BU OE lead of the opportunities – to allow opportunity-based target setting in the budget cycle

·         Tracking of benefits through leading the Benefits Tracker agenda- ensuring all activity is tracked

·         Leading of site improvement projects that are higher in complexity or require cross functional involvement

·         For site prioritised opportunities- Set up projects with site team members, ensuring charter in place and then coaching the teams to deliver projects

·         ensuring strong site governance is in place for improvement activities

·         Working together with the local Operations team facilitate the setting up and sustainability of the site SIM/ business performance management process to ensure robust performance management is in place at all levels to cover – handover, SIC, Daily, Weekly, Monthly intervals

·         Deploy best practice operational excellence techniques within the Operations function through design, coaching and training of staff (eg SIM, 5S, PSG, TPM) to reduce waste and non value add activity/cost

·         Ensure central CI programmes are cascaded and aligned to local requirements

·         Perform Operational Excellence maturity assessments in line with central defined process and ensure site improvement plan is in place and progressing

·         Support the development of a CI culture- ensuring using leadership process confirmations across site- as part of the defined leaders standard work

·         Competency development- Establish competency requirements for identified roles across the business and performing training needs analysis to ensure a site competency (for operational excellence) plan is in place.

·         Develop, implement and maintain training matrices to assist managers in identifying training needs

·         Ensure that all employees are trained to the required standards and are effectively audited and signed off as competent