Continuous Improvement Practitioner

<p class="text-muted mb-3">About the job</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">📣 Role Title: Continuous Improvement Practitioner</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">🏢 Company: UK Leading 3PL Business</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">💰 Salary: £42,500- £50,000 + Additional Company Benefits</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">📍 Location: Stafford</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Loom Talent has been exclusively appointed by a UK leading 3PL business to appoint a Continuous Improvement Practitioner.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Job description</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Reporting to the General Manager, The Continuous Improvement (CI) Practitioner will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of the Site CI plan, acting as a PMO for site whilst also supporting the Operational Excellence Strategy. The individual will help to facilitate change activity on site to deliver Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, People benefits encouraging colleague participation.</p>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">Key Duties for the Continuous Improvement Practitioner</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Monitoring and supporting the delivery of the site CI plan working with site teams and the Regional CI Manager(s) and broader Projects team; ensuring all site CI activity goes through the appropriate Gateways and sign off.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Responsible for reporting progress, risks, issues and benefits relating to all site based CI and Project activity (Project Management Office, PMO).</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Work with site colleagues to identify opportunities to deliver improvements to health and safety, quality, cost, service and engagement which will feed into the site CI plan (supported by the Regional CI Manager).</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Track and report on benefits identified and realised locally at site; support more effective site resource planning to further realise bottom line improvement working with the site Planning and Senior teams.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Lead the delivery of small projects to unlock benefit.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Support the upskilling & coaching of colleagues on site to understand basic CI, problem solving and work stream management.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Support major system change on site where required working with the Site Systems Super user i.e. facilitation of</p>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">requirements gathering, process mapping, problem solving.</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Support the gathering of data where required for diagnostics, solution design and benefits tracking, working with the Site Systems Super user & Regional CI Manager.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Support the delivery and governance of new operational processes that ensures sustainment of any change implemented i.e. Visual Mgt, Auditing, Feedback sessions, updating & maintenance of SOPs.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Work with the site Recruitment and Engagement Coordinator and Senior teams to keep colleagues up to date with all change and CI activity via the delivery of an agreed site communication strategy and plan.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Support senior stakeholder engagement.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Support the delivery of the business wide Change and CI strategy working with the Central Projects and CI team and other CI Practitioners i.e. Diagnostic activity, sharing of good practice, role modelling the right behaviours.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Qualifications</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Aware of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Previous experience of being involved or leading elements of a project i.e. basic Project Management tools and techniques.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Experience in a Logistics Distribution and Supply chain Environment.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Presentation skills and ability to deliver training.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Some knowledge of IT systems for example M-Type, SCE, TMS, Info view ideal.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Data Analysis & solution design.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">MS proficient (i.e. Excel, PPT, Word, Teams, BI).</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Experience of working closely with operations and developing effective working relationships.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Experience of implementing change in a challenging environment.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Experience of working in a project environment and of improvement activity.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Package:</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Salary - £42,500 - £50,000 DOE.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Annual Leave - 25 days plus bank holidays.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Company Bonus.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Private Medical Cover.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Pension scheme - 5% employee and 8% employer.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Life Assurance - 4 x your annual salary</p>