Operational Excellence Manager - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Job Description

Contract: Fixed Term ContractHours: Monday to Friday 08:00 to 16:30Location: Appleby Magna (DE12 8AA)Salary: £44,000 plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits schemeAbout the JobRelationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You’ll have an important part to play in automotive success that spans nearly 50 years. Unipart Logistics (UL) has secured a contract to run the new, custom-built Jaguar Land RoverGlobal Parts Logistics Centre at Appleby Magna in Leicestershire. The operation is housed at Jaguar Land Rover’s new Mercia Park campus, one of the largest UK warehouse developments for a single customer. We would like you to join us now!Here at Unipart we don’t just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Uniparts ‘From Gate to Great’ training and development program.As an Operational Excellence Manager at Unipart Logistics, you will work closely with our site teams to embed Operational Excellence and Digital technologies consistently. You will lead, coordinate and deliver process improvement projects aligned to agreedbusiness priorities. Your primary focus will be to deploy Operational Excellence and Digital technologies into operations delivering value to the business and positive outcomes measured through Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery indicators.As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

• Lead and deliver continuous improvement activities to improve operational performance and enhance colleague capability in the use of Unipart Way tools and techniques
• Deliver tangible and validated financial savings through OpEx and Digital delivery
• Use OpEx and UL Digital tools to deliver ‘Right First Time’ principles into operations
• Learn, share and adopt best practice within the Logistics division and wider business
• Work with site leaders in applying the Group OpEx and Digital standards consistently and as measured through the Group’s internal auditing process
• Act as mentor and coach for peers and high potential colleagues, ensuring there is a strong pipeline of succession
• Support and coach Team Leaders and Operational Managers with their personal development accreditation programmes, particularly OpEx elements where applicable

About YouWe’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!Essential:

• Experience of delivering Operational Excellence with data analysis and colleague engagement to drive tangible results in Unipart - or similar experience of delivering OpEx / Lean / Continuous Improvement activities and outcomes in an external business
• Experience of delivering focused improvement events resulting in validated step change in key performance indicators and enhancing colleague knowledge and capability
• Knowledgeable on the latest warehousing and distribution best practices from across the Logistics industry and has a self-interest in remaining informed of emerging concepts and solutions
• Experience of coaching and mentoring others
• Proven track record of an ability to influence internal stakeholders and external clients and at all levels of organisational hierarchy to drive change
• Excellent communication skills; spoken, written, presenting
• Able to demonstrate flexibility in working anywhere across the UK Logistics division
• An appetite to learn more about Industry 4.0 technologies and apply digital solutions to applicable operational areas and processes

Desirable:

• Experience of delivering OpEx / Lean / CI activities in different sectors; Automotive, Consumer, Defence, Health, Technology
• Flexible to work in UL locations overseas when requested
• Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certified
• Experience of working with and implementing digital capabilities (particularly RPA, Automation, Cobots and data science technologies; AR/VR, IoT, Big Data, Simulation, Machine Learning etc)

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the groundsof race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristicas defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and doyour best work every day.You may have experience in roles such as: Continuous Improvement Manager, Lean Manager, Operational Excellence Lead, Process Improvement Manager, Quality Manager, Business Improvement Manager, Operations Manager, Supply Chain Manager, etc.REF-210 834