Continuous Improvement Facilitator

M ller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo M ller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, M ller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.M ller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer's Top 100 list of Britain's Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. M ller UK & Ireland includes:

M ller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain's private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.

M ller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK's leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more M ller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like M ller Corner, M llerlight, M ller Bliss, M ller Rice, FRijj and M ller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.

Continuous Improvement Facilitator (known internally as Operational Excellence Facilitator)

40 hours per week: Monday - Friday

Stonehouse, Severnside

We are recruiting a Continuous Improvement Facilitator within the Blow Moulding Department at Muller Severnside. The purpose of this role is to create and embed a culture and way of working that enables our people to deliver targets whilst continuously improving the performance and delivering site performance through alignment of resources (people, plant & process) to deliver on KPI's and Objectives. Lead sites Operational and Maintenance excellence programs and coaching site team to deliver roadmap targets.

Key Responsibilities as Continuous Improvement Facilitator :

• Lead Blow Moulding site Manufacturing strategy in line with delivering Muller Excellence, including areas of H&S, Quality, Environment, Policies and Procedures (accredited Business standards)
• Ensure routines, rituals, tasks and objectives are completed within agreed timeframes.
• Deliver development plans for own team aligned with business objectives.
• Champion the implementation of a Continuous Improvement culture and strategy.
• Lead a high performing team through PMS principles and Muller Excellence Program.
• Coach, mentor through succession pathways, up and through Blow Moulding.
• Ensure manufacturing operates within full compliance of all business standards.
• Collaboratively working with others to improve overall business performance.
• Ensure support from Central Muller Excellence for Engineering Excellence and Asset care.
• Drives Muller excellence strategy in everything we do through PMS

Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement:

• Data driven advanced trouble shooting capability deployed when required.

• Can demonstrated advanced problem solving capability in high pressured environment.
• Uses coaching and facilitating skills to influence positive change with the site.
• Utilises Six Sigma Green Belt methodology to understand and improve processes.
• Is a subject matter expert and demonstrates effective deployment of many operational excellence based tools and philosophies to include SMED, 5S, Autonomous Maintenance, Standard Work Deployment & RCA.
• Demonstrate excellent role modelling, coaching & supporting of end to end performance management system
• Responsible for targets setting / strategic deployment of OGSM across all site functions.
• Effectively uses network benchmark information to drive improvement.
• Drives and support the delivery of continuous improvement opportunities based of 8 wastes.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience we're looking for from a Continuous Improvement Facilitator:

• Health & Safety, Hygiene, Business standards.
• Technical Processing / Machine knowledge.
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Continuous Improvement techniques.
• Leading and Inspiring - coaching/mentoring Influencing and communicating
• Drive for results (outcomes, customer focus)
• Use of Microsoft office packages

Compensation & Benefits:

• Up to 10% yearly bonus
• Salary sacrifice Pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
• Life Assurance at 4x your annual salary
• 33 days holiday per year
• Health care cash plan
• Free parking
• Career progression and development
• Access to 1000s of reward via the Muller Rewards platform