Experienced Lean Manufacturing Champion

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

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The cornerstone of our client’s business is its vast experience designing and manufacturing corrugated cardboard packaging. They supply a wide range of packaging solutions, working with clients from creative thinking and design through to manufacturing and delivering. The manufacturing part of this process is where your experience is required.

They are looking for a Lean Manufacturing expert to be responsible for developing, leading and implementing manufacturing optimisation projects with a focus on lean management to increase process efficiency.
The key objective of your role as Lean Champion will be to lead an environment that embraces lean manufacturing strategy to improve quality, schedule and processes.

Meeting this objective will require leading and designing Lean Manufacturing goals and strategies that will improve operations and processes within the organisation. Your job will be to employ methodologies and tools, and manage all activities for continuous improvement, performance enhancement and the accomplishment of business objectives.

Supporting the organisation through lean manufacturing in order to resolve problems with the current manufacturing systems (workflow, planning, process improvement, budget goals, safety, delivery etc.) will require someone with excellent analytical and conceptual skills and an entrepreneurial mind-set. Your role will encompass analysing work force utilisation, facility layout and operational data such as production costs, process flow charts and production schedules to determine efficient utilisation of staff and machinery.

A desire to achieve through engaging an entire team is fundamental. Lean Champion will be responsible for training employees in lean manufacturing and Six Sigma principles, tools and techniques. You will provide leadership and will be responsible for developing and exceeding quality, schedule and cost objectives. Our client is looking for a motivating leader who can create and develop a spirit of cooperation through employee involvement and development.

Candidates must be well versed in manufacturing techniques involved in the fabrication of corrugated cardboard packaging.