Operational Excellence Lead

at  Greencore Group

WHY GREENCORE?

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.
We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
Here at Bow, we have a team of around 800 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, platters, sub rolls and salads for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Sainsbury’s, Co-op, Asda, Morrisons and BP Wild Bean Café.
Here at Heathrow, we are a growing team with around 450 colleagues. We produce chilled & hot eat Food for Now products including salads, sandwiches & wraps, Protein Pots & snacking. As well as Food for Later products such as ready meals & sides for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Amazon Fresh, Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s.

Reporting into the the OpEx / BI Manager, as OpEx Lead / BI Lead you will drive step change improvements in OEE, labour & material cost performance through leadership, capability build and coaching of site operational teams

• Set up Performance control systems (including short interval control)
• Lead diagnostic ideation process
• Complete line studies to build improvement case studies
• Lead improvement teams to deliver work stream improvements in line with the set targets/ROI
• Lead best practice sharing and support replication on other sites
• Set and coach the behavioural standard in site teams