Operational Excellence Lead

Your role involves spearheading the Nutreco Operational Excellence programme, ensuring site adherence and implementing tools and processes to achieve business improvement targets at Opco level (TNSA). Your primary focus will be on meeting site KPI targets for cost and productivity, while enhancing operational excellence maturity and capability.

Job Description:

What are you going to do?

• Performing site diagnostic/assessments to highlight opportunities for improvement- in line with budget setting cycle
• Informing site leadership team & BU OE lead of the opportunities - to allow opportunity-based target setting in the budget cycle
• Tracking of benefits through leading the benefits tracker (FT) agenda- ensuring all activity is tracked
• Leading of site improvement projects that are higher in complexity or require cross functional involvement
• For site prioritised opportunities- Set up projects with site team members, ensuring charter in place and then coaching the teams to deliver projects
• ensuring strong site governance is in place for improvement activities
• Working together with the local Operations team facilitate the setting up and sustainability of the site SIM/ business performance management process to ensure robust performance management is in place at all levels to cover handover, SIC, Daily, Weekly, Monthly intervals.
• Deploy best practice operational excellence techniques within the Operations function through design, coaching and training of staff (e.g. SIM, 5S, PSG, TPM) to reduce waste and non-value add activity/cost.
• Ensure central CI programmes are cascaded and aligned to local requirements.
• Perform Operational Excellence maturity assessments in line with central defined process and ensure site improvement plan is in place and progressing.
• Support the development of a CI culture- ensuring using leadership process confirmations across site- as part of the defined leader's standard work.
• Competency development- Establish competency requirements for identified roles across the business and performing training needs analysis to ensure a site competency (for operational excellence) plan is in place.
• Develop, implement and maintain training matrices to assist managers in identifying training needs.
• Ensure that all employees are trained to the required standards and are effectively audited and signed off as competent.

What do you bring?

• You should possess a minimum bachelor's degree in a related field, along with at least 5 years of proven experience in Operations / Manufacturing.
• Your strong knowledge of CI tools and techniques, coupled with experience in their implementation in manufacturing is crucial.
• Previous experience within a similar role is advantageous.
• You should be diligent with excellent attention to detail. Have and have robust coaching skills.
• Your ability to work to strict deadlines, demonstrating confident management of conflicting priorities are key attributes.
• Proficiency in the use of all MS applications, email & internet along with excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication and collaboration skills is essential.
• Ability to listen, assimilate and interpret information and convert to understandable, logical training documents and communication.
• You should be able to work on own initiative and within team environment with a motivated. "can do" attitude.
• Ability to grasp new concepts quickly, generate fresh and innovative ideas and ability to influence and manage change will be valued.

Our organisation:

Trouw Nutrition is the global leader in innovative feed specialties, premixes and nutritional services for the animal nutrition industry. Trouw Nutrition provides species-specific nutritional solutions consisting of feed concepts, products and nutritional know-how. The unique combination of products, models and services Trouw Nutrition offers, boosts productivity and supports animal health through all life stages, contributing to our customers' peace of mind. Trouw Nutrition's nutrition solutions have met the need of farmers and home-mixers, feed producers, integrators and distributors. Trouw Nutrition has locations in 25 countries and around 5000 employees. Our mission is Feeding the Future.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Trouw Nutrition is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, military status or any other status protected by applicable local law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process if you require accommodation. Trouw Nutrition is committed to compliance with all applicable legislation, including providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities.