About the role
1. Driving the OE principles, focusing on the initial prioritised 6 (Committed Leadership, Right First Time, Standardisation, Visual Management, Go, See, Do & Customer)
2. Designing OE activities and interventions to improve operational performance and enhance colleague capability in the use of ‘Think Work Behave’ model and supporting tools and techniques.
3. Responsible for the quality of OE design, supporting establishment of standard training materials, templates and the governance framework
4. Identifying scale opportunity and applying OE to support interventions to deliver measurable business benefit
5. Preparing reports and materials to support the understanding, approach, outcomes, recommendations of all centrally led OE activity.
6. Acting as mentor and coach to key leaders within the business who are developing their OE competencies.
7. Being subject matter expert to the organisation on operational excellence.
Flexibility and Travel
8. Requires ability and willingness to work at any SN operating location as required, and flexibility to travel as the role requires
9. On occasion requires working early hours to review, support night operations (e.g. 02:00 – 10:00)
What we can offer you
Not only do we offer free onsite parking, 4x salary life assurance and 5% match pension but you’ll also have access to:
10. £5,688 per annum car allowance
11. Company bonus
12. Company funded Health Cash Plan – providing cash back for everyday healthcare costs such as dental, optical and physiotherapy
13. 25 days holiday plus holiday buy scheme
14. 24/7 E-Learning modules, Training and Development opportunities
15. Sharesave Scheme, Cycle to work schemes, Health cash plan
16. Private medical insurance
17. Colleague Assistance Programme & Colleague referral scheme
About you
18. Extensive experience in implementing OE across a range of sectors and functions.
19. Ability to lead operational interventions, working with site teams to test, trial and implement process efficiency changes
20. Experience with implementing and leading OE in non-operational / transactional areas.
21. Extensive experience in designing and leading focused improvement events resulting in validated step change in efficiency, key performance indicators and enhancing colleague knowledge and capability
22. Expertise in material flow design and layout optimisation
23. Highly skilled in influencing stakeholders and effectively engaging with all levels of business
24. Excellent communication skills; verbal, written, presenting
25. Certification in Lean, 6 Sigma, CI preferred
26. Experience of leading and inspiring and knowledge transfer
Please note: you must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this position.
A career with us is a career filled with people, pride, and passion. We rely on each other to get the job done, and we deliver what we say we will. Let’s see if we can rely on you, too. Apply now.