# Process Improvement Engineer

**Company**: Herbert Parkinson, part of the John Lewis Partnership
**Location**: Darwen, Lancashire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £43,100-£64,700
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We're seeking a Process Improvement Engineer to join Herbert Parkinson, a historic part of the John Lewis Partnership. You'll play a key role in our transformation journey, driving business improvements and empowering our partners to thrive.

**Responsibilities:**

- Promote a positive Health & Safety culture, ensuring high standards of housekeeping are maintained

- Report all accidents, Near Misses & areas for improvement in a timely manner

- Identify waste & undertake business re-engineering opportunities, supporting & delivering the pipeline of business improvement initiatives

- Support the Product Development Technician in bringing a product concept to life; optimising process efficiency & understanding true cost to make

- Provide robust analysis and insight to challenge, shape and inform end-to-end solutions to drive improvements within your workstreams

- Support & engage with relevant stakeholders to establish process ownership to drive agreed priorities to timescale & budget

- Provide a suite of measures & reporting to key stakeholders to demonstrate impact and influence of process initiatives

- Support facilitated learning of CI tools & techniques to embed CI principles & drive a continuous improvement culture on site

- Invest in your own personal and professional development. Ensure a realistic & achievable performance plan is in place, with a clear skills GAP analysis to drive your development

**Essential skills/experience:**

- Experience of working in a manufacturing / operational environment

- Demonstrable experience in process improvement using a recognised methodology (Six Sigma/DMAIC/ Lean. Proceed Engineering)

- Green Belt Accredited

- Stakeholder management & influencing skills; able to connect and influence at multiple levels

- Able to plan and prioritise work effectively; working on multiple projects at the same time

**Desirable skills/experience:**

- Previous experience of working in the textile industry

**Additional benefits:**

- Expected salary: £43,100-£64,700 (dependent on experience)

- Contract type: Permanent role, 38.75 hours per week

- Night Premium: £4.75 per hour for any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00

## Skills

### Required
- process improvement
- Six Sigma
- Lean
- Green Belt Accredited
- stakeholder management
- influencing skills

### Nice to have
- textile industry experience

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