7 Permanent, Production / Manufacturing jobs in Poole, Somerset

Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK's leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility. Operational Excellence Lead Bridgwater Monday - Friday: 8am - 4pm We're looking for an Operational Excellence Lead to join us on a permanent basis at our Bridgwater dairy. The purpose of the Operational Excellence Lead is to create and embed a culture of Operational Excellence within the site via the implementation and governance of Muller Excellence tools, systems and processes to continuously improve the performance of our business across Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, People and Sustainability. Main Tasks & Responsibilities for the Operational Excellence Lead:

• Drives the implementation of elements 1-8 of Muller Excellence with Site Lead and SLT
• Facilitates Muller Excellence support cycles and end of year assessments with the SLT and Central OpEx team
• Is the Coach, Ambassador and Police of all tools, systems and processes within elements 1-8 of Muller Excellence
• Facilitates the creation of annual Muller Excellence targets and activity plans with SLT
• Utilises Muller Excellence tools, systems and processes to drive performance improvement across the balanced agenda of Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, People and Sustainability
• Creates the anchoring strategy for each tool, system and process with elements 1-8 of Muller Excellence to ensure site ownership and continuation of value adding activity
• Takes an active interest in the progression of roadmaps 9-12 and supports key stakeholders in making progressive happen in all areas.
• Can demonstrate advanced problem solving capability in high pressured environment, utilising data for decision making based on analysis
• Is part of the OpEx community forums, sharing ideas, best practices and critique for UK sites to improve together
• Is a subject matter expert and demonstrates effective deployment of many operational excellence based tools and philosophies including DMAIC, SMED, 5S, standard work deployment, RCA
• Can demonstrate excellent role modelling, coaching and supporting of end to end performance management system
• Responsible for target setting/strategic deployment/purpose & direction of OGSM across all site functions
• Development of OpEx enabling culture
• Creates opportunities for others to actively seek out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to active OpEx projects
• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues
Benefits:
• Up to 15% bonus (paid annually)
• Car allowance £550 per month
• Partner healthcare cover via BUPA
• 4 x life assurance
• 25 days plus bank hols
• Career development and professional development
• Supportive working environment
What are we looking for from an Operational Excellence Lead:
• DMAIC (define, measure, analyse, improve and control)
• Root cause analysis
• Waste Mapping
• SMART actions
• Strategy deployment
• 5s deployment
• Project Management
• Lean manufacturing
• FMCG
• Front line and departmental management
  
  Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer's Top 100 list of Britain's Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:
Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain's private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.