Position Snapshot 
Business Unit - Nestlé Purina  
Job Title – Manufacturing Excellence Specialist
Location Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Salary ranging circa £43,000 per annum plus excellent companywide benefits 

Position Summary

The Manufacturing Excellence Specialist is responsible for sharing the knowledge to the factory pillar members in order to ensure a proper usage of the methodologies, driving continuous improvements in the key operational business processes throughout manufacturing. 

At Purina PetCare, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too.

Our Wisbech factory makes some of the UK’s most well-known and much-loved brands, such as Felix, Winalot, Gourmet, and Purina ONE, and is constantly developing to meet the changing needs of our consumers. All this happens in a vibrant and historic market town known as the capital of the Fens. For a town with a rich history, it also has a strong vision for the future with continued investment planned to ensure Wisbech remains a great place to live, work and visit.

Manufacturing in Nestlé is all about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place whilst driving losses from our business in order to maximise efficiency & productivity.

This is particularly critical as we continue our journey towards being a LEAN Enterprise. This is the biggest change in the way we work that Nestlé have ever seen. It’s worldwide. It is exciting. You could play a key part in it.
 
A day in the life of a Manufacturing Excellence Specialist

Working closely with all function’s and pillar members from the different departments, the ME Specialist will support with their strategy, application, and delivery of Focused Improvement practices. In addition, you will help identify improvement opportunities and lead a number of projects throughout the year to deliver business needs. You will have good in-depth knowledge of and experience on TPM implementation and improving the skills of production and maintenance teams on common problem-solving and TPM/LEAN tools. 

Other key responsibilities include:

•    Train and coach teams in the correct use of continuous improvement tools and techniques.
•    Drive and coach the implementation of TPM practices delivering tangible results and culture change. 
•    Support the cascade of business and factory priorities into local Master Plan roadmaps. 
•    Use data gathering, tidying, analytics and visualisation techniques to effectively identity, prioritise and define projects. 
•    Lead and coach Lean Six Sigma projects using the DMAIC and SMED framework. 
•    Be a production co-pilot on our local continuous improvement journey. 
•    Benchmark with other factories within the market to capture, deploy and share best practices in the factory.
•    Continually focus on Key losses and build awareness and competence on the key tools to build a Zero loss mindset in the Local leadership team and shopfloor

What will make you successful

We are looking for someone who has a passion and commitment for improving and adding value to manufacturing processes, committed to compliance to factory standards and shows initiative. 

•    Experience in a manufacturing environment, including exposure to front line production management 
•    Experience on TPM methodology & implementation. 
•    Proficient use of MS Office tools 
•    Proficient use of specialised IT tools is an advantage (i.e. Minitab, R Studio, Anaconda, Power Bi, Power Apps, Flow, SAP HANA) 
•    Proven record of delivering continuous improvement projects and stakeholder management 
•    Excellent communication skills and an ability to coach and train; deliver messages, lead workshops, develop people in training / coaching environment.
•    Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification is an advantage 

What we need you to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme, Private health insurance and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role in Monday 09/09/2024.

 We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

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