Operational Excellence Coordinator

Job Context

We are currently at the early stages of our Operations Excellence journey and seek to develop the sites to deliver improvements in cost/margin while developing our operational maturity and competency. This role is critical to driving this agenda and is the owner of the site roadmap and annual plan.

The Operational Excellence coordinator, as part of the site leadership team, works closely with the cross-functional teams at the site to design and deliver the site's operational excellence plan. This role reports directly to the Site Operations Director for accountability of the delivery and also has a functional reporting line to the BU Operational Excellence Manager for direction, tools, process, and blueprints.

Key Accountabilities

At OpCo / site level the role is accountable for:

• Performing site diagnostic/assessments to highlight opportunities for improvement in line with the budget setting cycle
• Informing site leadership team & BU OE manager of the opportunities to allow opportunity-based target setting in the budget cycle
• Tracking of benefits through leading the funding for growth (FFG) agenda, ensuring all activity is tracked
• Leading site improvement projects that are higher in complexity or require cross-functional involvement
• For site prioritized 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
• Setting up and sustaining 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 and aligned to central blueprint standard
• Deploy best practice operational excellence techniques within the Operations function through design, coaching, and training of staff (e.g., SIM, 5S, PSG, TPM) to reduce waste and non-value add activity/cost and processes are aligned to central blueprint standards
• Ensure central CI programs 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 leader’s standard work
• Competency development: Establish competency requirements for identified roles across the business and perform training needs analysis to ensure a site competency (for operational excellence) plan is in place
• For Operational Excellence, based on training needs analysis, ensure that employees are trained to the required standards and are effectively audited and signed off as competent

Key Performance Indicators

• Safety improvement
• Operational Efficiency (OE)
• Cost per Ton
• FFG achievement
• Yields
• kWh/T
• Maturity Assessment Score
• Competency Score

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/manufacturing/food/feed or technical field
• Experience of working within a manufacturing factory
• Experience with Operational Excellence programs (Lean, TPM, 6 Sigma…) with associated certification preferred
• Trainer experience
• Good level of English in writing and speaking
• Proven record of delivering improvements in a sustainable way