Continuous Improvement Lead

Company Description

Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire region of England.

Continuous Improvement Lead (9 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:? Here are the highlights of the role and benefits.

• We offer a salary, 4b, from £40,667 - £50,834 per annum, depending on experience?
• Annual incentive-related bonus?
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)?
• Development opportunities in line with the Continuous Improvement Lead progression plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays plus an extra wellness day!?
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary?
• A great benefits package choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!?

Hybrid Working (3 days office / site a week Bradford). There will be a requirement for travel around the Yorkshire region as part of the role.

Temporary 9 Months. 37 hours per week, Monday Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Continuous Improvement Lead to join the Asset Maintenance Team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, its so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshires water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the regions health, wellbeing, and prosperity. New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.

The Asset Maintenance Continuous Improvement Team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

You will lead continuous improvement activity across the e2e Asset Maintenance Process, ensuring we maintain our assets and plan and schedule work in the most efficient and effective way.

Youll support the embedding and improvement of process, standard operating procedures and technology with a strong focus on the cultural shift required to move from reactive to planned and predictive maintenance.

Your activities will drive tangible benefits against operational, strategic, customer and health & safety objectives, through the application of CI methodology.

• Work with Continuous Improvement Manager to set up and embed a CI Framework across the Asset Maintenance Process, to allow improvement opportunities to be identified by all colleagues and be recorded, tracked, and escalated as required to maximise performance against objectives
• Watch the work, spending time with both field and office-based colleagues on the job to identify how the work flows and what gets in the way so its as easy as possible for colleagues to do the best job possible
• Manage issues and opportunities, pulling people together to progress them, solving problems, keeping colleagues informed and bringing them along the journey
• Utilise available performance data to its maximum potential, developing new measures to understand how we are performing, encouraging open and honest conversations about how we can improve, linking in with the Yorkshire Water Performance Excellence (PEx) framework
• Review opportunities identified through the CI Framework to understand and define the impact and benefits and work with the Continuous Improvement Manager to prioritise and deliver these
• Lead CI initiatives to realise benefits using CI methodology to design, communicate and embed sustainable process improvements,…