Continuous Improvement Facilitator
Apr 29, 2025
Skills
Experience Working With Students • Communication skills • Classroom Experience • Data Collection • Adult Education • Meeting Facilitation • Calculus • LMS • Teaching • Training & Development • Exercise Planning • Remedy
The Role
Experience Working With Students • Communication skills • Classroom Experience • Data Collection • Adult Education • Meeting Facilitation • Calculus • LMS • Teaching • Training & Development • Exercise Planning • Remedy
Protea Recruitment is proud to be working with a well-known food manufacturer based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is looking for an experienced CI Facilitator.
Responsible for the delivery of step-change improvement projects aligned with the Operations Reliability plan, focusing on the key operational objectives across the site. Apply CI tools and structured methodology to deliver targets set by the Operations Reliability Manager. Supporting and driving improvement plans, CI initiatives, budgets and resources to support the overall Edinburgh site improvement strategy withinOperations, Engineering, SHE, Projects andQuality
- Deliver improvement projects to support the operational teams to continuously improve plant output whilst meeting the requirements of a complex, high volume production site.
- Support the delivery of financial budget aligned with the delivery of KPI s (waste, TOS, efficiency, machine uptime, planned tonnage and accidents).
- Leverage and develop site capability on CI tools and techniques (Lean Six-sigma, Kaizen, SMED, 5S, Line-balancing, Centrelines).
- Support the maintenance and drive improvements in our OEE performance management system (Redzone).
- Work in partnership with site functions, in particular Operations and Engineering to deliver line annual targets.
- Support embedding site principles as part of the sites Improvement Strategy
- Demonstrate SHE principals and cultural behaviours to support site culture
- Support and motivate the team to recognise performance and drive robust succession planning
- Training of CI activities and roll out of activities across the site.
Requirements
- Clear understanding and application of continuous improvement tools and techniques, in particular DMAIC, SMED, 5S, Centre Lining, SIC, Kaizen and Line Balancing
- Experience working with production OEE software systems focused on maintenance and assets control
- Experience in analysing and presenting reports
- Minimum of 2 years experience in an FMCG environment
- Can demonstrate an ability to think strategically
- Lean Six-sigma black belt or relevant qualification preferred
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience/ graduate calibre or formal qualification or experience in manufacturing excellence
- Level 2 Food Safety/Hygiene qualification
Due diligence
Protea Recruitment has authorization from our clients to advertise and recruit on their behalf. If you have not heard from one of our consultants within five working days from submission, you have not met the criteria of this vacancy set by our client and are unsuccessful in moving to the next stage.
Clear understanding and application of continuous improvement tools and techniques, in particular DMAIC, SMED, 5S, Centre Lining, SIC, Kaizen and Line Balancing Experience working with production OEE software systems focused on maintenance and assets control Experience in analysing and presenting reports Minimum of 2 years experience in an FMCG environment Can demonstrate an ability to think strategically Lean Six-sigma black belt or relevant qualification preferred Degree qualified or equivalent experience/ graduate calibre or formal qualification or experience in manufacturing excellence Level 2 Food Safety/Hygiene qualification Due diligence Protea Recruitment has authorization from our clients to advertise and recruit on their behalf. If you have not heard from one of our consultants within five working days from submission, you have not met the criteria of this vacancy set by our client and are unsuccessful in moving to the next stage.
