Operational Excellence provides vital support to all Nestlé’s factories in the UK. Join us, and you’ll be involved in projects to eliminate waste, increase reliability and reduce major production issues. This may also include helping factories understand and deliver new initiatives, and even implementing innovative new programmes across the country.

As part of our team, you’ll focus all your energies on improving the production process and solving issues that are having a major impact on production. It’s a role that’s perfectly suited to someone who enjoys a challenge and wants to make a difference in helping to sustain Nestlé world class production.

Day to day, you’ll work with people at all levels of the company – from the Senior Leadership Team and factory management, to the operators that run the production lines and our technical staff. Your projects will be based around eliminating all non value-added activities, reducing changeover times and increasing reliability…all factors that result in an increased production line performance. 

Your success won’t just come from good engineering skills: you’ll need great people skills too. We’ll expect you to have the credibility and gravitas to influence, inspire and engage. You’ll need the ability to build new project teams that can measure, analyse and understand the root causes of a problem. This way, you’ll arrive at solutions that factory staff will be eager to take ownership of once you leave. Finally, you’ll need the skill to implement solutions and put control mechanisms in place that keep improvements sustainable.

We’ll give you all the support and guidance you need. In return, you’ll need confidence in yourself and the courage to see your actions through to completion. 

This is a high profile opportunity to broaden your skills and try new challenges – so you’ll need to come equipped with the right motivation to progress quickly. It’s important that you’re mobile and flexible enough to travel within the UK and abroad. You could be studying any degree discipline to apply for this role.

To enrol on the Nestlé Graduate Programme you must have achieved (or be on track for) a minimum 2.1 degree or EU equivalent and must be willing to relocate within the UK. 


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