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Job Description

Job Description

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior MPS Specialist.

MPS is an integrated production system for how the company designs, manages, and continuously improves our operations and supporting business processes, enabled through the development of our people.

What you will do:

Bring energy, knowledge, innovation and leadership to carry out the following:

• Provide support sitewide to deliver significant business results through use of MPS. Support critical improvement projects as the MPS subject matter expert.
• Work with the site MPS lead to maintain an active MPS strategy for the site, linked to the site and company strategy.
• Enable the company World Class Supply objectives through Value Stream analysis/ Supply Chain Design on key franchises.
• Deliver training and coaching to build a culture of self-sustaining MPS capability.
• Deploy companywide MPS initiatives as required e.g. Closed Loop Management System Fundamentals of Tier, Problem Solving, Leader Standard Work, Hoshin etc.
• Demonstrate the mindsets and behaviours required to drive a high-performance culture in daily work.

What skills you will need:

In order to excel in this role, you will more than likely have:

• Manufacturing facility and equipment knowledge and experience
• GMP compliance knowledge and experience beneficial, but not essential
• Be capable of working under own initiative with minimal direction, with high personal integrity, credibility, and energy.
• Possess a detailed knowledge of and demonstrated ability to employ multiple lean tools (e.g. Tier, Problem Solving Leader Standard Work, Challenge Statements, Value Stream Mapping, waste analysis, capacity analysis, creation of standard work, 5S, Kaizen, Kanban etc.).
• Possess excellent leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to motivate and coach others to achieve results
• Possess excellent communication skills, and an ability to lead and influence at all levels. Ability to make an impact and influence without direct line authority.
• Knowledge of change execution management. Openness to and ability to effect change.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and effectively manage time, meet deadlines, and produce quality deliverables.
• Proactive, structured, and logical problem-solving skills, respond to change in a positive and flexible manner
• A keen interest in people development with a demonstrated ability to motivate and coach others to achieve results
• Computer skills including word processing, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams, SharePoint etc.

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