Director of process improvement Work, Jobs in Capenhurst, Chs (with Salaries)

Associate Director of TPM
AstraZeneca —Liverpool
- Monday to Friday
- Maintenance
- Continuous improvement
- Leadership
5d
Quality & Process Improvement Manager
Joloda Hydraroll —Liverpool
- £40,000 - £60,000 a year
- Full-time
- Continuous improvement
- Team management
- Travel
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8d
PMO Project Director - Energy & Natural Resource
Turner & Townsend —Warrington
- Full-time
- Management
- Continuous improvement
- Mentoring
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1d
Associate Director, Procurement Enablement – ESG, Governance, Training & Development
CSL Behring —Liverpool
- Full-time
- Bachelor's degree
- Training & development
- Business
Operations Director - Fermentation
Elanco —Speke
- Full-time
- Engineering
- Project management
- Bachelor's degree
Senior Director Trial Optimization and Feasibility
Teva —Chester
- £202,000 - £252,700 a year
- Engineering
- Bachelor's degree
- Leadership
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
11d
Head of Transformation Portfolio Delivery
Liverpool City Council —Liverpool
- £70,608 - £78,297 a year
- Project management
- Continuous improvement
- Employee assistance programme
1d
Associate Director R&D Procurement - Clinical Sciences
Teva —Chester
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Business
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
13d
Senior Quality Manager
Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials —Runcorn
- Analysis skills
- Continuous improvement
- Team management
Major Projects Director
Bilfinger SE —Warrington
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Engineering
- Business development
Associate Director R&D Procurement - Clinical Trial Management
Teva —Chester
- No experience needed
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
13d
Senior Director, Head of Global Logistics
CSL Seqirus —Liverpool
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Bachelor's degree
- Continuous improvement
- Business
Director - R&D Strategic Sourcing & Value Management
Teva —Chester
- PMP
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
Director, Supply Chain
Elanco —Speke
- Full-time
- Engineering
- Bachelor's degree
- Continuous improvement
Director, CMC & Regulatory Sciences
Pharmaron —Liverpool
- Doctoral degree
- Master's degree
- Team management
1d
Insight and Research Manager
Liverpool City Council —Liverpool
- £56,673 - £62,580 a year
- Analysis skills
- Employee assistance programme
1d
Associate Director Planning - Energy & Natural Resources
Turner & Townsend —Warrington
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Bachelor's degree
- Mentoring
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Technical Director - Human Factors
Assystem —Warrington
- Business development
- Continuous improvement
- Psychology
Sr Dir Site Finance Lead
Teva —Runcorn
- Engineering
- Analysis skills
- Continuous improvement
- Annual leave
Head of Engineering
Kudos Services —Warrington
- Up to £85,000 a year
- Full-time
- Continuous improvement
- Team management
- Travel
- Employee assistance programme
- Life insurance
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Associate Director of TPM

AstraZeneca -
Liverpool

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Job details

5 days ago

Qualifications

GAMP
Stakeholder collaboration
Stakeholder liaison
Maintenance
Change management
Six Sigma
Continuous improvement
Continuous improvement cycles oversight
Operational strategy development
Change leadership
Multidisciplinary collaboration
Leadership
Project management experience
Lean manufacturing

Full job description

Location Liverpool, England, United Kingdom Job ID R-258577 Date posted 23/08/2026

Associate Director of TPM

Location: Liverpool Speke

Type: Permanent (Mon-Fri 37.5 hpw onsite)

Competitive salary and benefits

Opening date: 20/08/2026

Closing date: midnight 02/09/2026

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to tackle the complexities of the Operations landscape and leave a lasting impact? At AstraZeneca, we embrace challenges and seek individuals who are driven to innovate and create a shared legacy. As champions of Lean, we ensure our teams understand the transformative benefits it brings, enhancing safety, quality, and speed. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is integral to our AstraZeneca Supply System, fostering equipment reliability and people capability to deliver medicines swiftly and affordably.

We are excited to offer an opportunity for a TPM Lead to join our team. Reporting to the Engineering Director, you will be accountable for driving the site-wide TPM programme, including its strategy, budget and execution. You will provide TPM expertise and influence colleagues across the site to improve asset performance.

This is a visible role in site transformation, working across Engineering, Operations, Lean and site leadership. Success will depend on building strong relationships, aligning priorities and influencing leaders, technicians and operators to adopt effective TPM practices.

You will lead structured TPM deployment across multiple assets, coaching teams to embed it into daily operations. Using problem solving, performance data and meaningful KPIs, you will help teams identify losses, prioritise opportunities and improve reliability and performance.

You will keep the programme aligned with business priorities, using digital tools and data-led insight to strengthen visibility, decision-making and deployment.

Are you passionate about digital solutions and Lean Leadership? Join us in accelerating digital efficiency in maintenance processes!

Accountabilities:

Ensure TPM is central to site strategy and the programme reflects identified improvement priorities
Collaborate with the Leadership Teams to shape outcome-focused roll-out plans.
Coordinate TPM activity across site teams and improve processes to support consistent implementation.
Align site TPM implementation plans with regional and global Lean strategies, AZ Supply System Maturity Review, and site scorecard targets.
Build relationships with frontline operational and engineering staff and coaching teams to sustain TPM standards
Collaborate with Regional and Functional TPM Leaders, participating in cross-site networks as Local Process Champion for TPM.
Develop and coordinate practical TPM learning through a ‘learning by doing’ approach
Define TPM implementation processes from start to finish; establish process goals and targets; monitor process performance.

Essential Skills/Experience:

Strong interpersonal and change leadership skills, with a proven ability to build engagement, establish credibility and influence stakeholders at all levels. Able to coach and challenge leaders, technicians and operators, adapt communication to different audiences and bring cross-functional teams together around shared priorities.
Relevant qualification in an Engineering or related technical/business field
Experience of leading / implementing Total Productive Maintenance within a Manufacturing Environment
Project management and improvement expertise
A track record of understanding and application of change management principles
Broad understanding of production and maintenance engineering processes

Desirable Skills/Experience:

Six Sigma (or Lean Six Sigma) Black Belt certification and/or certification from an accredited external Quality program
Understanding of Good Automated Manufacturing Practice, current Good Manufacturing Practice and regulations as defined by local regulatory bodies

At AstraZeneca, we 're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

Interested? Come and join our journey!

Date Posted

24-Aug-2026

Closing Date

01-Sept-2026

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.

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