Continuous Improvement Manager

The Sterling Choice; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Bonus

Job summary

The Sterling Choice is seeking a senior Continuous Improvement Manager for a major food manufacturing site in West Yorkshire. You will join the Site Leadership Team, lead three experienced CI professionals, and drive visibility and influence across the whole operation.

Focus is on delivering major improvement and automation projects, developing site capability and achieving measurable gains in productivity, cost, waste and efficiency. A path to senior leadership and wider opportunities exists.

Qualifications

• Strong Lean and continuous improvement toolkit.
• Experience delivering change within a large, high-volume manufacturing site.
• Evidence of leading major projects with measurable commercial results.
• Credibility to influence everyone from the factory floor to senior leadership.
• A hands-on approach rather than merely managing the improvement plan.

Responsibilities

• Lead major improvement and automation projects across the site.
• Develop capability across the site and deliver measurable gains in productivity, cost, waste and efficiency.
• Join the site leadership team and oversee three CI professionals, influencing decisions across the operation.

Skills

Lean

CI toolkit

Change delivery

Stakeholder influence

Hands-on leadership

Job description

Continuous Improvement Manager

West Yorkshire | Food Manufacturing | £75,000 + Car Allowance & Bonus

Most Continuous Improvement Managers aren't short of ideas.

They're short of the authority, investment and support needed to make them happen.

You won't be here.

This is a senior, site-wide role within a large and complex food manufacturing operation that has ambitious improvement plans and significant investment behind them.

You'll join the Site Leadership Team, lead three experienced CI professionals and have the visibility to influence decisions across the entire operation.

The foundations are already in place. Your job is to take them further.

That means leading major improvement and automation projects, developing capability across the site and delivering measurable gains in productivity, cost, waste and efficiency.

It also offers somewhere to progress. The previous person in the role was promoted internally, and this position will give you exposure to senior leaders, substantial projects and wider opportunities across the business.

You’ll need:

• A strong Lean and continuous improvement toolkit
• Experience delivering change within a large, high-volume manufacturing site
• Evidence of leading major projects with measurable commercial results
• The credibility to influence everyone from the factory floor to senior leadership
• A willingness to remain hands-on rather than simply manage the improvement plan

Food & drinks manufacturing experience would be ideal, although backgrounds including packaging and pharmaceutical manufacturing will be considered if the scale and complexity are comparable.

This is a full-time, site-based role with occasional travel to other UK locations.

If you've reached the point where you need more investment, influence and opportunity to make a genuine impact, this could provide all three