Six Sigma Green Belt

Job description

Nestlé UK & Ireland

Halifax – West Yorkshire.

Are you looking to widen your experience with a respected global company in a key role with real responsibility and an opportunity to develop your leadership skills?

It's difficult to beat the career diversity available within Nestlé with a host of operational sites in most parts of the UK and abroad. Our operational teams are responsible for manufacturing many of the UK's favourite brands and ensuring these appear on the shelves of retailers exactly when needed. As a company, Nestlé is the global leader in nutrition, health and wellness with a strong impact in our local communities as well as globally through what we call Creating Shared Value ( www.nestle.com/csv ).

We're looking for an ambitious Six Sigma / Continuous Improvement Specialist with a passion for improving manufacturing processes through leading project teams and supporting operations on their journey to autonomy in problem solving. You'll be rewarded with a fantastic package including bonus, flexible working hours and excellent wider benefits with no limit on furthering your career and increasing your scope of responsibility within our operations across the UK and worldwide.

Our Story
Nestlé is the world's leading health, wellness and nutrition company, with over seven thousand employees in the UK and Ireland alone across the 19 sites of all our business. We are proud to produce some of Britain's best loved brands such as Kit Kat, Nescafé, Smarties, Buxton, Go Cat and Shreddies. Around 95% of UK households consume our brands and more than two billion Nestlé products are sold in the UK every year. Nestlé Confectionery is part of the wider global business of Nestlé SA and is home to a host of fantastic brands, many of which have been enjoyed by consumers for generations.

Our Opportunity
We're looking for people to lead and coach multi-disciplinary teams to identify and eliminate losses in our challenging and fast moving manufacturing environment. The role offers a real opportunity to develop your leadership skills through working with and influencing a range of people on site – from the Factory Manager to Process Operators. You'll be given the responsibility to lead and coach business critical improvement activities across the factory, with a focus on developing innovative and sustainable solutions and a continuous improvement mind-set at all levels. If you are career driven, your application will be the first step on a career path with endless possibilities.

You
Your career so far will demonstrate a proven ability to influence and engage operational teams and factory management to deliver results and build capability. You will be an engineering, science or mathematics graduate with a curious and analytical approach. You will need to be a highly motivated self-starter with a strong willingness to learn, adapt and develop both yourself and your career.

Ideally your process improvement skills will be excellent, and you will have experience of improvement techniques (for example six sigma / Lean / TPM / 8D). If your process improvement skills aren't at an advanced level, but you can show the appropriate people skills and aptitude to succeed in the role; we'll provide you with appropriate training and development opportunities. This could include training in six sigma to green belt level and the opportunity to become certified.

What you need to know
The closing date for this role is 7 th October.

We will be considering applicants as they apply, so please don't delay in submitting your application.

Nestlé UK & I is committed to equal opportunity for all. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.