- Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell), pension contributions up to 9%, private healthcare and an extensive flexible benefit programme
- Needs to be at our Cambridge location as a minimum 4 days a week
- Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909
- Marshall Land Systems will be moving to Alconbury Weald (PE28) at the end of 2025
- Analysing production processes and procedures against the assigned programme
- Developing enhancement strategies and identify shortfalls in the programme.
- Monitoring employee performance vs process and organisational processes.
- Collaborating with other stakeholders, and in particular the production CI lead, to enhance productivity and efficiency in the programme..
- Communicating the need for process change and supporting the change process
- Training, mentoring, and guiding team members in new processes.
- Staying up-to-date with developments in manufacturing process optimisation
- Delivery of improvement projects to achieve production targets/ cost savings and KPIs against the programme,
- The elimination of waste, in pursuit of tangible customer value
- Identification, planning and implementation of initiatives that improve efficiency and utilisation
- Support the product industrialisation and design-for-manufacture
- To drive standardisation of approach across the programme, aligned with the wider business, supporting an environment that encourages the sharing of best practice
- Knowledge of LEAN and process improvement tools and techniques (Experience with Value Stream Management tools, Kaizen methods and other key Lean tools and methodologies is advantageous)
- A track record of implementing process improvements and controls
- Experience in a manufacturing/ production environment (as a continuous improvement lead)
- Experience of modern manufacturing practices, processes and organisational design.
- Experience in delivering multiple efficiency programmes driving millions in efficiency savings
- Experience of lean tools and techniques
- Hold a relevant degree in Manufacturing, Engineering (or equivalent), or experience to an equivalent depth
Continuous Improvement Lead - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Marshall
Description
Continuous Improvement LeadWhat we are looking for
As a Continuous Improvement Lead for one of the largest programmes at Marshall Land Systems you will be responsible for identifying and working with the programme organisation and production team to deliver improvement opportunities against that programme.
You will be proficient in mapping processes in a production environment whilst ensuring you capture programme needs. You will drive improvements that deliver efficiency and cost saving targets to support the programme budget to be delivered or exceeded.
You will also be accountable for embedding new practices in a production programme setting, alongside an ongoing culture of improvement.
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Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall Land Systems specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.
Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.