Operational Excellence Lead

Nutreco; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in operational excellence is looking for a candidate in the Netherlands to drive site improvement initiatives. Responsibilities include performing site diagnostics, informing leadership about opportunities, and leading complex improvement projects. The role also involves establishing governance, deploying operational excellence techniques, and ensuring proper training development and auditing for employees. This position is crucial in fostering a CI culture and aligning local initiatives with central CI programs.

Responsibilities

• Perform site diagnostics and identify improvement opportunities.
• Inform leadership of opportunities for budget target setting.
• Track benefits through the Benefits Tracker agenda.
• Lead complex site improvement projects.
• Set up project charters and coach site teams.
• Ensure strong governance for improvement activities.
• Facilitate sustainable performance management processes.
• Deploy operational excellence techniques to reduce waste.
• Cascading central CI programs to local needs.
• Conduct Operational Excellence maturity assessments.
• Foster a Continuous Improvement culture among staff.
• Establish competency requirements for roles.
• Develop training matrices to identify training needs.
• Ensure employee training standards are met and audited.

Job description

Job Description

• 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