At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.
About You
Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you? Are you motivated by impactful work? Do you have a passion for excellent quality standards, driving business forward through improving efficiency, and possess strong stakeholder engagement skills?
How You Will Make A Difference
This position has the potential to be a great fit for you if you are driven by impactful work and a passion for quality standards.
About Us
At STERIS we are a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. Our mission is to help our customers create a healthier and safer world. Working at STERIS, you GROW, LEARN and MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
What You Will Do
This is a home based position which requires national and potentially international travel to support the allocated stakeholder base.
Duties
- Leads and drives lean transformation and change initiatives to create and sustain world-class, visually managed processes for instantaneous recognition of wastes in all areas.
- Implements CI/Lean methods to drive improvement in alignment with strategic goals and objectives.
- Facilitates and/or conducts lean training programs, Kaizen events, and other lean initiatives. Assesses, coaches, and provides constructive feedback to teams to strengthen lean competencies at the site.
- Serves as a change facilitator, develops and collaborates with site/area lean champions and/or business leaders and influences site leadership in the transformation to and in support of a continuous improvement culture.
- Develops and manages multiple processes, long and short-term, sustainable, lean-related visual action plans as well as assigned key projects.
- Monitors existing and new processes for improvement opportunities in safety, quality, delivery, and cost through lean problem solving methodology and takes appropriate follow-up action.
- Tracks, measures, and reports progress on improvements using standard, established KPI’s.
- Establishes and monitors core CI/lean systems such as SQDC, 5S, Standard Work, and Leader Standard Work for compliance to standards and effective utilization.
- Assists in the preparation of budgets, schedules, and other financial reports regarding the impact of sustaining CI/lean improvements, waste reduction, and ROI, as indicated by lean accounting principles.
- Supports organization and facilitation of site Lean Steering Committee meetings.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge through benchmarking world-class lean organizations and personal CI/Lean-related training.
Required Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Continuous Improvement / Health related Science or 10+ years of demonstrated, qualified lean experience in a leadership role.
- Knowledge and demonstrated understanding of a variety of lean tools Toyota Production System and methodologies such as A3 Development and Management, Process Flow Mapping, Value Stream Mapping, 5S/Visual Factory, TPM, QCO-SMED, Standard Work, Process Problem Solving, Built In Quality, Just In Time, Kaizen/Continuous Improvement, Hoshin Kanri – SDP X Matrix, and Lean ROI.
- Knowledge of and demonstrated ability to integrate safety, ergonomics and 5S requirements within CI/ lean practices.
- Ability to manage priorities for limited multi-site responsibility.
- Experience in working within a matrix environment reporting to Lean organization and taking local direction from Site Directors.
- Up to 60% travel, travel will vary week to week, must be flexible.
- Clean Driving Licence and Passport with no restrictions required.
Preferred Experience
- Experience implementing PFEP would be beneficial.
STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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