Our story starts in France in the 1980s, when we created the first ever quick-frozen part-baked baguette. Since then, Délifrance has never stopped developing bakery, patisserie and savoury for foodservice providers, retailers and bakers.
We are looking for a Operational Excellence Technologist to join us at our Southall (UB2 4SB) site in West London.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Yellow belt Six Sigma trained with potential for possibly improving to Green belt
• Ideally Food safety, IOSHH and HACCP qualified
• Essentialminimum of 3-5 years experience in a similar role, desirable applied experience in bakery industry sector
• Ability to work on own initiative and with autonomy.
• Experience in managing projects preferably related to operational efficiency / operational excellence or NPD
• Essential proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel, essential knowledge of conducting quality control tests. Computer literate (particularly Power-Bi with Word, PowerPoint, Excel & Access). Good knowledge of Excel power queries, power pivot and KPI dashboards
• Excellent analytical, organisational, administrative and coordinating skills
• Essential excellent written and verbal communication and problem solving, desirable the ability to prioritise

• With the Operational excellence Manager, drive, coordinate and support Site and Group strategy development of Roadmap with governance
• Drive group CI culture requirements, e.g. SIMs, 8D / 5Whys, RCA engagement, SIM audits, White belt training
• Proactively improve plant efficiency through OEE monitoring on performance, availability, quality with use of Pareto analysis for identifying DMAIC and A3 methodology projects along with group requirements. Coaching to teams
• Support and maintain the Power-Bi data base systems and contribute to development of other similar systems
• Use of practical key CI tools to improve performance such as change over time reduction (SMED), 5S, Visual Management, Poke Yoke, 7 Wastes analysis, Value stream mapping, loss analysis, Hour x hour, etc through team engagement
• Engage in NPD trials processes for all new products.
• Define and document control the machinery settings for new products and continuously improve the machinery settings for better safety, quality and performance.
• Support Operational Excellence financial Roadmap for monitoring of projects
• Participate in the integration of new equipment or operating methods, data preparation for supporting capital projects and methods
• Maintain and improve manufacturing databases on data integrity focus (efficiency, products, settings, quality, engineering etc) and manage data onto Power-Bi dashboard