Operations Excellence Manager

The CompanyOur client is a specialist manufacturer, a leader in their field. To help maintain this they are looking to recruit and Operations Excellence Manager.The Role

• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice operational excellence and production engineering; planning vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• Establish both short and long term strategies and implementation plans that will allowleveraging the program and Continuous improvement culture for sustained and long term benefit.
• Develop and execute an overall Operations Excellence strategy, CI initiatives relating to efficiencies and quality, and innovation of customer experiences pertaining to end to end value streams.
• Design, prove, implement, and maintain production systems to deliver product on time, toquality requirements and to cost.
• Drive functional operational excellence throughout the team.
• Drive continuous improvement activities in quality, cycle times, process improvement, machine availability through lean techniques and value engineering to enhance the capabilityof existing processes and remove waste.
• Identify and justify capital equipment investment.
• Analyse and improve material usage throughout the value stream.
• Execute process improvement programs using concepts such as Lean and Six Sigma tools such as DMAIC, Gemba, ...