GBS Facilitator (Continuous Improvement) in Stonehouse

ADEY, the market leader in the provision of residential water treatment products for closed loop heating and cooling systems in the UK, is looking for a GBS Facilitator (Continuous Improvement) to join the team. Part of the Genuit Groups’ Climate Management Solutions (CMS) business unit, ADEY has ambitious growth plans to continue protecting the world's heating and cooling systems, to have a positive impact on the environment and people's lives.

The Role

We are looking for a Continuous Improvement Facilitator, internally known as GBS (Genuit Business System) Facilitator. As a GBS Facilitator, you will work closely with functional leads, supporting and empowering teams to work smarter and more effectively. By championing the Genuit Business System (GBS) - its tools, techniques, and behaviours - you will help colleagues identify better ways of working and embed continuous improvement into everyday activity.

Responsibilities

• Support the wider GBS team
• Collaborate across functions, driving improvement through our organisation
• As a subject matter expert, you’ll coach our teams, building capability, enabling improvement to become sustainable and part of how we do business
• Respond to daily challenges, lead root cause workshops and be hands on in the ‘stop & fix’
• Support delivery of the kaizen roadmap to achieve strategy deployment objectives
• Take ownership of implementing the Genuit Business System, deliver improvements whilst ensuring the appropriate practices are followed
• Facilitate lean orientation & training workshops, kaizen events, and lead local CI practices such as 6S and the employee suggestion schemes
• Support sustainment activities resulting from improvement activities, and lead Gemba walks and Audits
• Constantly seek improvements
• Find better ways of working that will allow us to exceed our customers’ expectations
• Continuously enhance your knowledge and expertise through best practice visits, internal training and external networking, ensuring integration of appropriate industry technologies and processes into the business
• Use process mapping techniques to deep dive into business processes to reduce or remove non-value adding steps
• Apply a structured change management methodology to ensure effective and seamless change

The Person

• Proven experience in a continuous improvement role within a manufacturing environment
• Project management skills with a track record of success
• Knowledge of Lean tools and principles, including Daily Management, Standard Work, Value Stream Mapping, 6S, Visual Management, Root Cause Analysis, A3 Problem Solving, 8 Wastes, SMED and TPM
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (or equivalent experience)
• Proficient in Microsoft 365, particularly Excel, with strong analytical and data-driven thinking
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Resilience and strong mentoring capabilities to effectively guide, support, and motivate team members, including during periods of resistance or organisational change

The Benefits

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Pension contribution matched up to 8%
• Life Assurance 3x base salary
• Private health scheme
• Genuit sharesave scheme

Here at the Genuit Group we recognise and develop the contribution our people make to the Group’s success and are committed to attracting talent from the widest pool. We have a role to play in making the built environment more sustainable, building a low carbon business ourselves as well as delivering sustainable solutions at scale.