Business Excellence Lead

Flextronics - The Flex Company; England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing partner in Warrington is seeking a Business Excellence Lead to enhance performance using lean and six sigma methodologies. The role focuses on promoting excellence within teams, eliminating waste, and fostering continuous improvement in a supportive, diverse environment.

Benefits

33 days holidays inclusive of bank holidays

Pension and life assurance scheme

Education, study, and training funding

Charity and volunteering opportunities

Continuous training tailored to your role

Flexible working hours

Great team and work environment

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a business excellence role.
• Ability to direct projects and business initiatives.
• Financial, research and statistical skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive lean and six sigma activities as a change agent.
• Eliminate waste and create value by reducing process variation.
• Coach and mentor teams towards Green Belt accreditation.

Skills

Lean

Six Sigma

Teamwork

Education

Typically, 5+ years of related experience

Eligibility to work in the UK

Green Belt on lean, six sigma, Industrial Engineering

Job description

A leading manufacturing partner is seeking a Business Excellence Lead in Warrington to promote a culture of excellence by implementing lean and six sigma methodologies. This role involves coaching teams, eliminating waste, and facilitating continuous improvement initiatives. Join a supportive environment offering growth opportunities and a commitment to diversity and innovation.

33 days holidays inclusive of bank holidays

Pension and life assurance scheme

Education, study, and training funding

Charity and volunteering opportunities

Qualifications

• Typically, 5+ years of related experience.
• Ability to guide and direct projects and business initiatives.
• Financial, research and statistical skills to resolve complex goals.

Responsibilities

• Drive lean and six sigma activities as a change agent.
• Eliminate waste and create value by reducing process variation.
• Coach and mentor those working towards Green Belt accreditation.

Skills

Lean

Six Sigma

Teamwork

Education

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Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion and cultivate a workplace culture of belonging that views uniqueness as a competitive edge and builds a community that enables our people to push the limits of innovation to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

We are looking for a new Business Excellence Lead employee to be based in Warrington.

Job Summary:

In charge of continuously driving a culture of excellence in the organization and enabling waste removal activities using lean and six sigma approaches and tools and guiding actions to a sustainable conclusion.

What a typical day looks like :

• Work as a change agent and drive lean and six sigma activities.
• In charge of eliminating waste and create value by reducing variation in the processes to achieve sustainable results throughout the site.
• Utilize Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) techniques, initiate process improvements, cycle time reductions, cost reductions and other activities aimed at reducing/eliminating non-value-added activities in the process.
• Facilitate Continues Improvement Transformation activities through Kaizen, workshops and Small Group Activities.
• Create and validate processes/standards to drive continuous improvement
• Coach and mentor those working towards and those who have attained Green Belt accreditation for lean or six sigma
• Support training at site to expand the team working towards Green Belt accreditation
• Perform assessment of the site Continuous Improvement Maturity Tracker (CIMT) and drive initiatives to close gaps.
• Participate in the Flex Business Excellence community forums, sharing ideas, best practices and critique for UK sites to improve together
• Use Center Point portal as depository to enable data research and cost saving effectiveness

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically, 5+ years of related experience.
• Teamwork participation to enable continuous improvement.
• Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas
• Must be able to guide and direct projects and business initiatives.
• Financial, research and statistical skills to resolve complex and conflicting goals.
• Ability to define project to business needs, define goals, targets, metrics, data collection, establish facts and problem resolution.
• Able to facilitate workshops and meetings, documenting outputs in appropriate format
• Recognizes and develops talent as a key element of executing operational business plans
• Comprehends the strategic & tactical impact of the function across sites
• Eligibility to work in the UK

Here are a few examples of what you’ll get for the great work you provide:

• Continuous training tailored to your role and skill set
• 33 days holidays inclusive of bank holidays per annum
• Pension and life assurance scheme
• Funding, Education, Study and Training scheme – employees can apply for £250/year which aids their development such as gym membership, language classes
• Great team and work environment, a truly international workplace
• Supportive and flexible culture
• Challenging assignments
• Charity of the year and volunteering opportunities in the local community
• Employee Assistance Program

Place of work: Warrington

Please note that our recruitment team is based in Hungary and therefore you may be called by an international number. (+36...)

Please also be aware that there are currently no direct public transport links to site so possessing your own transport is required.

TK43

Job Category Operational Excellence

• We may use pixel tags or scripts supplied by various job boards to track when you navigate to our website from a job board and submit a job application.Flex uses this information on an anonymous basis, this helps us understand the efficiency of our recruiting campaigns. Further information on these pixel tags or scripts may be provided by the job board site you have used.

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion and cultivate a workplace culture of belonging that views uniqueness as a competitive edge and builds a community that enables our people to push the limits of innovation to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

We are looking for a new Business Excellence Lead employee to be based in Warrington.

Job Summary:

In charge of continuously driving a culture of excellence in the organization and enabling waste removal activities using lean and six sigma approaches and tools and guiding actions to a sustainable conclusion.

What a typical day looks like :

• Work as a change agent and drive lean and six sigma activities.
• In charge of eliminating waste and create value by reducing variation in the processes to achieve sustainable results throughout the site.
• Utilize Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) techniques, initiate process improvements, cycle time reductions, cost reductions and other activities aimed at reducing/eliminating non-value-added activities in the process.
• Facilitate Continues Improvement Transformation activities through Kaizen, workshops and Small Group Activities.
• Create and validate processes/standards to drive continuous improvement
• Coach and mentor those working towards and those who have attained Green Belt accreditation for lean or six sigma
• Support training at site to expand the team working towards Green Belt accreditation
• Perform assessment of the site Continuous Improvement Maturity Tracker (CIMT) and drive initiatives to close gaps.
• Participate in the Flex Business Excellence community forums, sharing ideas, best practices and critique for UK sites to improve together
• Use Center Point portal as depository to enable data research and cost saving effectiveness

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically, 5+ years of related experience.
• Teamwork participation to enable continuous improvement.
• Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas
• Must be able to guide and direct projects and business initiatives.
• Financial, research and statistical skills to resolve complex and conflicting goals.
• Ability to define project to business needs, define goals, targets, metrics, data collection, establish facts and problem resolution.
• Able to facilitate workshops and meetings, documenting outputs in appropriate format
• Recognizes and develops talent as a key element of executing operational business plans
• Comprehends the strategic & tactical impact of the function across sites
• Eligibility to work in the UK

Here are a few examples of what you’ll get for the great work you provide:

• Continuous training tailored to your role and skill set
• 33 days holidays inclusive of bank holidays per annum
• Pension and life assurance scheme
• Funding, Education, Study and Training scheme – employees can apply for £250/year which aids their development such as gym membership, language classes
• Great team and work environment, a truly international workplace
• Supportive and flexible culture
• Challenging assignments
• Charity of the year and volunteering opportunities in the local community
• Employee Assistance Program

Place of work: Warrington

Please note that our recruitment team is based in Hungary and therefore you may be called by an international number. (+36...)

Please also be aware that there are currently no direct public transport links to site so possessing your own transport is required.

TK43

Job Category Operational Excellence

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion and cultivate a workplace culture of belonging that views uniqueness as a competitive edge and builds a community that enables our people to push the limits of innovation to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

We are looking for a new Business Excellence Lead employee to be based in Warrington.

Job Summary:

In charge of continuously driving a culture of excellence in the organization and enabling waste removal activities using lean and six sigma approaches and tools and guiding actions to a sustainable conclusion.

What a typical day looks like :

• Work as a change agent and drive lean and six sigma activities.
• In charge of eliminating waste and create value by reducing variation in the processes to achieve sustainable results throughout the site.
• Utilize Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) techniques, initiate process improvements, cycle time reductions, cost reductions and other activities aimed at reducing/eliminating non-value-added activities in the process.
• Facilitate Continues Improvement Transformation activities through Kaizen, workshops and Small Group Activities.
• Create and validate processes/standards to drive continuous improvement
• Coach and mentor those working towards and those who have attained Green Belt accreditation for lean or six sigma
• Support training at site to expand the team working towards Green Belt accreditation
• Perform assessment of the site Continuous Improvement Maturity Tracker (CIMT) and drive initiatives to close gaps.
• Participate in the Flex Business Excellence community forums, sharing ideas, best practices and critique for UK sites to improve together
• Use Center Point portal as depository to enable data research and cost saving effectiveness

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically, 5+ years of related experience.
• Green Belt on lean, six sigma, Industrial Engineering
• Teamwork participation to enable continuous improvement.
• Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas
• Must be able to guide and direct projects and business initiatives.
• Financial, research and statistical skills to resolve complex and conflicting goals.
• Ability to define project to business needs, define goals, targets, metrics, data collection, establish facts and problem resolution.
• Able to facilitate workshops and meetings, documenting outputs in appropriate format
• Recognizes and develops talent as a key element of executing operational business plans
• Comprehends the strategic & tactical impact of the function across sites
• Eligibility to work in the UK

Here are a few examples of what you’ll get for the great work you provide:

• Continuous training tailored to your role and skill set
• 33 days holidays inclusive of bank holidays per annum
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Pension and life assurance scheme
• Funding, Education, Study and Training scheme – employees can apply for £250/year which aids their development such as gym membership, language classes
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working
• Great team and work environment, a truly international workplace
• Supportive and flexible culture
• Challenging assignments
• Charity of the year and volunteering opportunities in the local community
• Employee Assistance Program

Place of work: Warrington

Please note that our recruitment team is based in Hungary and therefore you may be called by an international number. (+36...)

Please also be aware that there are currently no direct public transport links to site so possessing your own transport is required.

TK43

Job Category Operational Excellence

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Optional Skills:

Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We do not discriminate based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law. We're happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process. Please email [e-mail] and we'll discuss your specific situation and next steps (NOTE: this email does not accept or consider resumes or applications. This is only for disability assistance. To be considered for a position at Flex, you must complete the application process first).

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