Continuous Improvement Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to join Refresco and play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence across our manufacturing operations. You'll be at the forefront of continuous improvement initiatives, leading change, enhancing efficiencies, and delivering measurable improvements in safety, quality, service, and cost. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you'll influence positive change and help embed a culture of continuous improvement throughout the business.

Continuous Improvement Manager Permanent Refresco  Kegworth Full Time, 38 hours per week

What's in it for you?

Annual bonus and regular pay reviews

Early Friday finish to kick-start your weekend

Personal healthcare cover
28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Option to purchase additional leave, increasing your allowance to 31 days plus bank holidays

Life assurance coverage
24/7 virtual GP access for you and your family

Free eye-care vouchers and discounted glasses

Employee referral scheme with bonuses for successful referrals

Grocery

Aid support services offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical guidance

Cheers benefits platform providing discounts, free perks, and wellbeing tools

Free onsite parking and discounted products

About

The Role As Continuous Improvement Manager, you will lead the implementation of Refresco's Continuous Improvement methodology, driving site performance and helping achieve strategic business objectives. You will identify opportunities for improvement across quality, safety, service, efficiency, and utility consumption, delivering sustainable results through practical, hands-on project leadership and coaching.

Act as a leading change agent across the site, identifying and closing performance gaps against key operational targets.

Embed a culture of continuous improvement throughout the business, ensuring sustainable improvement tools and practices become part of everyday operations.

Lead and deliver improvement projects from concept through to implementation and handover, ensuring delivery to agreed timelines, budgets, safety and quality standards.

Implement and champion Refresco's Continuous Improvement methodology across all operational areas.

Analyse operational data, trends, and reports to identify improvement opportunities and prioritise actions.

Lead and support cross-functional teams to deliver performance improvements and strategic objectives.

Drive improvements in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), waste reduction, operational efficiency, product quality, customer service, and utility consumption.

Use strong operational knowledge and project management expertise to deliver complex improvement initiatives successfully.

Coach and develop colleagues across all levels of the business, building continuous improvement capability and creating a lasting legacy of skills.

Support improvements in health and safety performance through proactive problem-solving and risk reduction initiatives.

Facilitate innovative thinking and promote best practice sharing to continuously improve operational performance.

Ensure continuous improvement activities contribute to achieving site strategic goals and long-term business success.

About You The ideal candidate will have proven experience in delivering operational improvement programmes within a fast-paced manufacturing environment, ideally FMCG. You will have a passion for driving change, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels to achieve sustainable business improvements.

We want someone who will lead and role model the Refresco core values of Agile, Responsible, Excellent, Passionate and Entrepreneurial. Find out more about our values here:

About Refresco Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass.

Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market trends.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision.

We're the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK, employing over 1,800…