Lean Coach - Yeovil

JOB TITLE: Lean Coach

REPORTS TO: Head of Performance

LOCATION: Scheme Site (initially Yeovil), plus home working. Occasional travel to other Scheme sites and Solihull office.

DIVISION: Infrastructure - Highways

The GT Company/Division:

Galliford Try is one of the UK’s most formidable construction businesses with a vision to be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in. Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.

We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.

We are committed to agile working, giving our people the freedom and flexibility to adapt their working life around their home life to achieve a proper balance. Our smart working approaches allow greater use of technology in the way we carry out our business, ensuring we provide a working environment that works for everyone.

The Role:

Galliford Try Highways, Regional Development Partnership, Operational Excellence, Lean coach

Purpose of the role:

As a lean coach you will be responsible for acting as a BPO for a number of `lean activities plus acting as a focal point for a scheme in regard to their lean journey and improvement plan. With the focus on supporting the local Leadership team in embracing both lean tools and techniques coupled with lean leadership behaviours. In addition supporting the wider business goals of an engaged workforce that strives to continually improve and, promoting well being and development for both the schemes and the individuals within the schemes. In addition to delivering the goals and objectives for the process excellence Team you will be expected to support the schemes deliver of their objectives in regard to Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and, Environment.

Key responsibilities:

You will:

• Contribute to the maintenance of health and safety standards

• Carry out 1 to 1 coaching for the leadership team within a scheme in regard to leadership behaviours

• Be accountable for the delivery of the low cost, no cost improvement initiatives both in regard to the number of opportunities raised and the demonstrated benefits against the agreed SMART target’s

• Be responsible for the support and coaching of the people identified by our sub-contractors working through their lean development programme in order that projects are delivered in a timely manner with demonstrable benefits . While setting up the learners to be able to apply the skills learnt going forward into future

• Be personally accountable for delivering three A3’s with a minimum of £150k savings per A3

• Roll modelling lean standards and behavioural standards in them being the starting point for any improvements / problem solving

• Supporting Lean Training

• Participate in frequent team meetings

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Person Specification:

Competency Requirements

• Well organised, methodical, and structured in their approach

• Have a breadth of experience in the application of the suite of lean tools from Hoshin Kanri to seven waste identification / elimination

• Excellent coaching and leadership skills. Being able to adapt their style and approach dependant on the “customer”

• High level of numeracy and excellent analytical skills

• Good influencing skills with the ability to act as an advocate for challenging the status quo

• Skilled in managing people of differing levels of seniority, managing expectations and delivering on commitments

• Proficient in the use of DMAIC or similar structured approach to analysis coupled with a go, look, see mind set

Technical / Professional Qualifications Required

• Minimum level 1c LCS certification, Lean Practitioner or equivalent or certified green belt in 6 sigma

• Able to demonstrate a minimum of three projects delivered through to Control

• A minimum of five years in a lean transformation role

• Excellent communication skills

• Able and willing to commit three days minimum per week to on-site work regardless of location

Desirable

• Experience in delivering lean programmes in a construction environment

• Adaptable to applying Lean thinking to a new industry hungry for Lean

• Being in commuting distance to Yeovil

Summary:

As a lean coach you will be key member of the Performance Team. You will act as a Business Process Owner (BPO) for certain elements across the business supported by a network and, in addition be expected to ensure adherence to any standards developed by the other BPO’s. The focus for this role is being able to deliver through others while developing the Teams ability to apply the lean “toolbox” with a major focus on promoting “behaviours”. You would report directly to the Head of Performance and be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the Operational Excellence strategy for Highways, but have a dotted line to the scheme Director and Senior Lean Coach in order that you can help delivery our objectives based on the companies wider objectives / scorecard

IN RETURN

In return we offer an opportunity to work on some of the UKs most exciting construction projects, in a fast-paced environment where each day brings new challenges as well as a competitive salary and benefits package including car or car allowance, pension, healthcare, discretionary bonus and 28 days holiday plus bank holidays. We will always consider flexible working hours and arrangements.

For more information on this Senior Planner role or to enquire about other positions available within our highways business please contact adam.wright@galllifordtry.co.uk

Additional Information:

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, part-time and / or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.

We encourage you and would be grateful if you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.

Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Galliford Try is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community

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