Sr. Specialist Continuous Improvement

**Job Description**:
Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives.

**The primary activities include but are not limited to**:

- Manage CI/LSS projects and coordinate with Leadership Team to identify and prioritize targeted areas of opportunity across the organization for eliminating waste and reducing variation.
- Conduct value stream mapping, business process re-design, kaizen events, lean thinking, cycle time reduction, etc. to simplify and perfect targeted areas.
- Provide CI/LSS training and leadership of kaizen events, across all levels of the organization.
- Maintain detailed records of all CI/LSS projects.
- Facilitate Rapid Improvement events (RIEs) and/or Kaizen events for problem solving.
- Managing/supervising CI/LSS projects resulting in sustained performance.
- Provide leadership and direction to cross-functional teams empowered to execute the Continuous Improvement & Lean Six Sigma strategy
- Educate, coach, and mentor Belts and others on Lean Six Sigma philosophy and contribute in project teams to improve processes by promoting LSS tools;
- Support project teams with the design, execution and analysis of experimental trials Develop and deploy organizational metrics and dashboards Contribute to the identification, prioritization and execution of CI/LSS local and cross-functional projects/programs to ensure maximum strategic benefits.
- Identify potential process improvement projects, propose process technology improvements and capital expenditures
- Strive to enable organizations to become more self-sufficient and self-sustaining in process improvement endeavors.

**Minimum** Education Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, finance, accounting or related field
- 5+ year experience implementing Kaizen tools, techniques and accelerators to achieve process improvement.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification from an accredited certifying authority (i.e.: ASQ, Motorola University, Gemba Academy) with a goal to get Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (desirable)
- Agile or Scrum Certification (i.e. Scrum Master, Disciplined Agile Scrum Master) is a plus

**Skills Required**:

- Knowledge and on hands experience with quality concepts and lean tools.
- Demonstrated change management expertise and ability to influence and gain commitment at all organizational levels and positively transform the organizational culture to adapt to improved processes and performance metrics.
- Talented facilitator with experience leading a variety of teams and the ability to build positive working relationships within a variety of government organizations.
- Ability to demonstrate initiative, leadership, and strong mentoring skills.
- Demonstrated experience as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with a strong track record.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Strong analytical skills using Minitab.
- Functional experience in multiple disciplines such as manufacturing, industrial, engineering, or quality.
- Experience establishing, tracking and driving gap closure with KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) or equivalent.

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

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**Employee Status**:
Regular

**Relocation**:
No relocation

**VISA Sponsorship**:
No

**Travel Requirements**:
10%

**Flexible Work Arrangements**:
Hybrid

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**Number of Openings**:
1
**Requisition ID**:R197809