Senior Process Improvement Engineer

Job Summary

Supports the strategic vision of Corewell Health by co-designing and executing innovative and transformative approaches to the complex problems that challenge the organization. Focus will be on driving the needed projects, programs and assignments throughout the organization aimed at improving operational and clinical reliability and achieving measurable results. They will work closely with clinical and operational leadership and team members throughout the system to design and help execute critical initiatives in line with top strategic focus areas.

Essential Functions

• Manages innovative improvement projects throughout the organization to accomplish measurable business improvements.
• Coordinates project work including project plans and schedules, and completes projects on time and within budget. Analyzes and documents, processes, procedures and outcomes to seek continuous improvement. Assesses resource requirements for project tasks and works with leaders of functional areas and subject matter experts to meet project plan deliverables.
• Communicates, collaborates, networks with team members/key stakeholders/business partners in order to ensure continuity and coordination of services and appropriate utilization of resources.
• Analyzes and measures the effectiveness of existing systems and processes; and implements systems to align, enable and improve sustainable, repeatable, and quantifiable clinical and business functions.
• Serves staff as a source of knowledge, expertise, education, training and mentoring related to areas of expertise
• Acts as a change agent to advance the knowledge and use of process improvement methodology and tools.
• Skills & Abilities: Problem solves, makes independent decisions, formulates reports, performs statistical analyses, and interprets data, works independently, is result oriented, can manage multiple priorities, ability to evaluate current state of processes utilizing data, time studies, observation & process mapping, maintains confidentiality of sensitive information and ability to travel to meetings in various sites, sometimes multiple locations in one day when necessary.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Mechanical, Process, or Industrial Engineering; Human Kinetics/Kinesiology; Human Factors or Ergonomics Engineering; Product Design; Systems Engineering; Organizational Design; Organizational Psychology; Sociology; Economics or related field.
• 10 years of deep experience with process improvement, project management, change management, and/or systems engineering/design methodologies and models.
• 5 years of demonstrated competence and experience leading and coaching on improvement initiatives, training programs, and developing large scale programs/portfolios/roadmaps of work

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Mechanical, Process, or Industrial Engineering; Human Kinetics/Kinesiology; Human Factors or Ergonomics Engineering; Product Design; Systems Engineering; Organizational Design; Organizational Psychology; Sociology; Economics or related field.
• 1 year of relevant experience with human centered design frameworks for problem solving, human factors design tools and methods, and/or design thinking methodologies

About Corewell Health

As a team member at Corewell Health, you will play an essential role in delivering personalized health care to our patients, members and our communities. We are committed to cultivating and investing in YOU. Our top-notch teams are comprised of collaborators, leaders and innovators that continue to build on one shared mission statement - to improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope. Join a nationally recognized health system with an ambitious vision of continued advancement and excellence.

How Corewell Health cares for you

• Comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health, and work/life balance goals. Learn more here.

• On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv

• Discounts directory with deals on the things that matter to you, like restaurants, phone plans, spas, and more!

• Optional identity theft protection, home and auto insurance, pet insurance

• Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and match savings

• Eligibility for benefits is determined by employment type and status

Primary Location

SITE - Corewell Health Place - 100 Corewell Drive NW - Grand Rapids

Department Name

Operational Transformation

Employment Type

Full time

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