Quality & Continuous Improvement Manager – Whitehaven
| Department | Operations |
| City | Whitehaven |
| Region | North West |
| Closing date | 2022-09-30T00:00:00 |
Do you have presence as a leader? Do people trust you and naturally want to follow you?
Smurfit Kappa are one of the UK’s largest producers of cardboard based packaging. We have a vision of becoming an indispensable partner to our customers delivered through operational excellence and a reputation for quality products. To achieve our vision, we want very best people. We are currently recruiting a Quality/Continuous Improvement (CI) Manager for our Whitehaven site.
The CI/Quality Manager will report to the General Manager and will be responsible for creating and delivering Operational Excellence (OE), focusing on process waste reduction whilst continuously delivering a quality product suitable for the premium markets which we serve.
Key elements of the role involve:
- Being a positive, resilient and engaging leader, where people naturally want to follow you.
- Being an excellent organiser of themselves and others, a self-starter, who is an excellent communicator, can collaborate across a diverse community of stakeholders with very strong networking and influencing skills
- Ability to influence others and implement change.
- Have broad experience of implementing OE tools and techniques (E.g. DMAIC. Lean Manufacturing, 5S etc) into the manufacturing environment.
- Experience of project management delivery, across a range of business functions
- Being responsible for developing and delivering the Quality and Continuous Improvement strategy for the site including a plan to ensure that the culture of the business places people, customers and operational excellence at the heart of how we do business, driving a ‘right first time’ mentality.
- Accountable for the Company’s compliance to its legal, statutory and chosen standards incl. ISO 9001, and FSC, providing technical advice and ensuring that the site management team is kept up to date with issues and developments.
If you meet the above criteria and would like to apply, please follow the link below, click the ‘Apply Now’ button and follow the online application process:
