Process Improvement Engineer for Health Plan- Remote

Sentara Health is a leading healthcare organization providing health plan coverage to nearly one million members in Virginia. They are seeking a Process Improvement Engineer to enhance clinical and operational processes, manage multiple projects, and facilitate significant changes to improve costs, quality, and efficiency within their health plans.

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility of a Process Improvement Engineer is to make significant changes in clinical, operational or transformational processes with a strategic or operational focus for Sentara Health Plans
• Manages multiple projects for multiple Sentara leaders simultaneously and be able to prioritize to meet tight timelines
• Responsible for all aspects of the change process to include financial, operational, and human resource perspectives and to facilitate radical changes in technology, processes and people
• Helps the organization maintain cost discipline/reduce costs, with secondary goals of helping operational leaders solve problems and/or design processes that are efficient and effective and improve costs, quality, safety or revenue
• Helps the organization operational leaders solve problems and/or design processes that are efficient and effective and improve costs, quality, safety or revenue

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Nursing, Engineering or related field OR 5 years of related experience in Process Improvement, Healthcare operations/management, Clinical operations/management, or Business operations/management in lieu of education REQUIRED
• Min 3 years of experience in Healthcare Management, Accounting/Finance and Process Improvement REQUIRED
• Lean and/or Lean Six Sigma certification and/or statistics class completion preferred
• Healthcare or Health Plan experience preferred