Senior Specialist, Business Consulting (Site MPS Lead)

Job Description

In this role, you would work as a Lean Practitioner/Coach and Lean Project Manager, playing a crucial part in our operational excellence. Specifically, you would be the Site MPS Lead for the Millsboro site, responsible for collaborating on and managing the lean strategy and the point of contact for the site.

As an internal lean practitioner and coach, you will identify, analyze, act upon, and instruct others on improvements both strategically and based on daily problems. In this position, you will lead or be involved with teams on all facets of the value stream to improve business outcomes.  You will apply lean tools, thinking, and change management methodologies as you develop colleagues at all levels so that continuous improvement is in everyone's DNA. As a lean project manager, you will lead projects to improve supply, increase productivity/reduce cost. You will lead teams with value-scouting exercises and lead more complex projects to achieve business outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities Lean Practitioner/Coach

• Initiate and implement improvement projects using Lean tools (Examples: Standardization, 5S, Poke Yoke, Kaizens, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Management, SMED, Capacity Analysis/Debottlenecking, etc.) to create flow and work smarter to improve performance, safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

• Hands-on support for operational problems and cross-functional investigations by conducting thorough scientific problem-solving techniques.

• Coach lean roadmaps and provide training on foundational competencies (tier, problem solving, leader standardized work, standardized work, and hoshin kanri).

• Continue to develop yourself in lean, inclusion, and change management. With this knowledge, you develop colleagues at all organizational levels by leading by example during improvement initiatives and coaching sponsors and stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities of Lean Project Manager

• Facilitating value scouting workshops and kaizens.

• Project lead on larger cost savings projects.

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in project management, biology, engineering, or a relevant field.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Five (5)+ years of demonstrable work experience with continuous improvement in one of the following fields: biopharmaceuticals, manufacturing, or quality.

• Experience in facilitating project teams and project management.

• Result-oriented and able to manage many different tasks/projects, and demonstrated ability to adapt to changes in priorities

• Experience and insight into working with data, making trends visible, and performing data analysis

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Project, etc.)

• Team player with a "go-to-the-gemba" attitude, analytical & eager to learn.

• Pleasant, communicative, skilled personality who can connect and coach colleagues in production as well as within management.

• Demonstrated ability to coach and influence management and change management.

• Experience with deploying lean in multiple environments

• Demonstrated use of multiple lean tools and concepts

• Experience deploying strategy (Hoshin Kanri, Policy Deployment) and A3 Thinking

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Project Management Certification

• Formal training in Lean and/or Advancement in our company's Competency System

Required Skills:

Adaptability, Benchmarking, Business, Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR), Business Requirements Management, Change Management, Data Analysis Tools, Data-Driven Decision Making, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Information Technology Applications, Interpersonal Relationships, Management Process, Productivity Initiatives, Quality Control Management, Quality Improvement Programs, Six Sigma, Team Management

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