Site Excellence Lead: Lean & CI Coach

Finsbury Food Group

Salisbury

Hybrid

GBP 65,000 - 90,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

Finsbury Food Group is seeking a Site Excellence Lead to shape and embed our Excellence strategy across the site, driving continuous improvement. You will coach leaders, build capability, and deliver sustainable improvements that impact safety, quality, service, cost, people, and sustainability.

You will lead MARA deployment, develop Lean and PPI training, and collaborate with Engineering and Operations to ensure improvements are embedded and owned by teams.

Qualifications

  • Proven CI/Lean or Process Improvement experience in manufacturing.
  • Experience delivering sustainable operational improvements.
  • Experience leading cross-functional improvement activities.
  • Strong coaching and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Analytical and structured problem-solving abilities.
  • Adaptable in fast-paced change environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and deploy MARA across the site and build internal CI capability.
  • Identify opportunities and deliver improvements in labour, materials, overheads, and performance.
  • Coach leaders to strengthen problem-solving, accountability, and ownership.
  • Support Asset Care/TPM implementation and sustainability.
  • Share learning and progress updates with the Excellence community.
  • Act as change leader to embed continuous improvement in leadership decision making.

Skills

Continuous Improvement
Lean
Process Improvement
Coaching & mentoring
Data-driven problem solving

Tools

MARA
TRACC
CI tools

Job description

Finsbury Food Group is seeking a Site Excellence Lead to shape and embed our Excellence strategy across the site, driving continuous improvement. You will coach leaders, build capability, and deliver sustainable improvements that impact safety, quality, service, cost, people, and sustainability.

You will lead MARA deployment, develop Lean and PPI training, and collaborate with Engineering and Operations to ensure improvements are embedded and owned by teams.

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