🍋 This is how you’ll change the way people eat foreverWe are looking for an Operational Excellence Engineer for our ambitious, fast growing team in Bleiswijk. Working in the Operational Excellence team you take a leading role in improving our operations day-to-day! 

As an Operational Excellence Engineer, your role involves identifying opportunities for improvement within Production and working closely with our operational team to implement these enhancements. The goal is to foster a culture of operational excellence by reducing costs, creating awareness on safety, increasing efficiency, and delivering the highest quality products to our customers.

Therefore, You have a key role in bringing our current operations to another level (lower cost, better productivity and quality) and support the implementation of the operational excellence culture and roadmap. 

🥑 This is how you’ll make an impact

• Continuously challenge HelloFresh processes to ensure their effectiveness and efficiency by identifying improvement opportunities and implementing them with the relevant teams.
• Serve as one of the local owners of operational processes, including systems, process design, and improvements.
• Diagnose processes, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with stakeholders to optimize the value chain, enhance quality, and reduce waste and costs.
• Facilitate and coach improvement teams, establishing and maintaining performance metrics to track program success.
• Implement standard work procedures, visual management, and error-proofing mechanisms.
• Guide project teams in identifying the root causes of operational disruptions using problem-solving techniques.
• Follow up on projects to monitor progress, ensure timely action, provide OpEx support, and achieve desired benefits.
• Support the transformation roadmap to an operationally excellent culture in the Distribution Centre as defined by your Team Lead, acting as a change agent within HelloFresh.
• Resolve complex and novel problems that arise in a rapidly growing environment.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by promoting engagement, recognizing achievements, and encouraging feedback from team members.
• Build capability within teams, by targeting training in OpEx tools and methodologies.
• Communicate and propagate OpEx success stories across the business and act as a change agent within HelloFresh.

🍉 These are the ingredients you’ll bring to the team

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in Production or Logistics.
• Preferred experience in Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement, in the principles and methodologies of World Class Manufacturing, Lean Management and/or Toyota Production System.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced, high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Confident in coaching on continuous improvement tools and systems.
• Knowledge of creating, implementing, and adhering to SOPs, WES, QPS, and Repair Standard Sheets.
• Demonstrable leadership skills, able to navigate and influence others from C-level down to the shop-floor.
• Strong analytical skills and a hands-on approach.
• Familiarity with lean principles and methodologies; Lean Six Sigma Green Belt is a plus.
• Strong commercial acumen, always focused on securing the best outcomes for HelloFresh.
• Proactive, ambitious, and driven to make things happen.
• A quantitative and analytical mindset, with the ability to use data as the basis for decision-making.
• Fluent in English; Dutch proficiency is a plus.

🥕 This is our recipe 

• Freedom to initiate, execute and implement your own ideas
• The opportunity to engage and collaborate with our colleagues across the globe
• Learning and development opportunities including a personal development budget
• 24 holidays per year, plus 1 day per additional year of work
• Need more holidays? We offer the possibility to purchase some extra holiday days
• A hybrid work setup, with a 250 Euro budget to help set up your home office
• Reimbursement of travel expenses to the office 
• A discount on your weekly HelloFresh and/or Green Chef box
• Our FreshEnergy program including bootcamp, yoga, boxing, Headspace subscription, a collaboration with OpenUp for your mental wellbeing, webinars and other events
• Multiple ways of getting to a work-related appointment, for example by using our company cars or a MyWheels car
• We offer 100% paid partner parental leave (up to 5 weeks) if your partner has a newborn
• Discount on your ClassPass subscription, and a discount for your gym membership via Bedrijfsfitness Nederland 
• Access to GoodHabitz with hundreds of resources for your learning & development
• Discount on your additional health insurance through Zilveren Kruis 
• Healthy lunches, fruit and snacks in the office 
• Monthly pension scheme 

🌱 Grow your career at HelloFresh 

A career at HelloFresh is an opportunity to make an impact in a world-leading meal-kit company. Through our Learning Never Stops core value, we empower you to take your career development to your highest potential…but we don’t just want to say it, we want to show it too. 

Check out some amazing growth stories here: 

• Joran van der Hel’s journey from driver to Ground Operations Manager
• Valerie Blank’s journey from Junior Sampling Coordinator to Team Lead of Product Marketing

🍍 Hungry for more?

• Apply with your CV and a strong motivation to join us (In English please)
• If we see a match, you’ll have a video call with one of our recruiters to share more about what you can bring to the team. 
• Are both sides still positive? Then we proceed to the assessment stage to assess key skills required for the job. 
• Next up is an interview with the hiring team to get to know you better and dive into more detail of your skills and how you are going to make an impact. 
• Lastly you’ll have a conversation with someone from our Leadership team