Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

John has used many of the improvement tools throughout his career, but he was fortunate in being selected for a two year secondment, as one of a small team of dedicated Six Sigma Expert, change agents in a Global change initiative.  

This was an intensive training programme in which the training consisted of six individual weeks of training, with three week gaps between each training week that were used to apply the hundreds of tools and techniques that had been learnt in the training. Because the whole corporation was part of a global change programme, this facilitated techniques such as site wide baselines and applying knowledge based processes to transform the culture to maximize customer value and grow the business. 

Having completed 2 major baselines, 5 business assessments, 6 Kaizen events and 19 projects over 27 months saving £millions, John went before a formal Assessment Board and was certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Led numerous, multi-discipline, multi-site teams across international boundaries in the UK, USA and Canada to conduct 2 major baselines, 5 business assessments, 6 Kaizen events and on projects that ranged from site consolidations and “lean manufacturing line designs” through programme management related initiatives and the creation of statistical Delivery Metrics, to facilities management initiatives such as increasing space utilization and building planning

To transfer knowledge, during his training, John organised and trained, 6 waves of multi-disciplined, multi-site Specialists or Green Belts (100 employees along with customers and suppliers). 

Since then, he has utilised the tools and training in his every day work, such as 

• using 5S to move 1100 people into a new more compact, open plan, new building with a new culture and Operating Model
• designing new layouts for factories and offices
• implementing JIT, Lean manufacturing cells
• increasing dramatically the speed and volume of production
• reducing Inventory by£21M (25.3%) in 11 months