Graduate Business Improvement Coordinator at Greencore

Where: England - West Yorkshire

Deadline: October 28, 2019

Type: Graduate

About the company:

Greencore Group plc is a fast growing, international convenience food leader. Headquartered in Ireland, Greencore has operations in the UK and the US serving major retailers and brands in both markets.

It is a leading manufacturer of convenience food products to grocery retailers in the UK and a leading manufacturer of sandwiches, meals kits and salads to CPG, convenience retail and foodservice outlets in the US.

Greencore has a proforma Group revenue of £2.3bn and operates out of 50 locations in the UK, the US and Ireland.

About the role:

  • Implement and sustain the Greencore Manufacturing Excellence processes at site; engaging with the front line teams to create a culture of continuous improvement
  • Deliver training and provide ongoing coaching and hands on support for the use of basic elements of the Greencore Manufacturing Excellence toolkit to build practical experience and ongoing capability
  • Facilitate team based improvement and problem solving activity
  • Coordinate the site operational focused SOP training, to be delivered by operations, and periodically check adherence
  • Ensure consistent best practice sharing across the manufacturing unit
  • Using an external network to ensure we're always best practice and supporting the projects to adopt these effectively
  • Contributing to the new product development process to ensure new products are fit for cost effective manufacture
  • Guidance and support to the manufacturing unit deployment of performance management rhythms and measures
  • Deliver specific projects and tasks in fulfilment of the Manufacturing Unit Business Improvement (BI) plan

Requirements:

  • Experience within an FMCG environment preferred but not essential
  • Demonstrable ability to manage and engage people with change
  • Strong problem solving ability
  • Sound analytical mind-set with the ability to interpret and shape data
  • Should be comfortable with being hands-on in a working factory environment

How to apply:

For more information and to apply please visit Career Connect and search Reference ID 'JYNV6'