Sr Manager, Operational Excellence

 

At West, we’re a dedicated team that is connected by a purpose to improve patient lives that has been at the center of our Company for more than a century. Our story began when Herman O. West solved the problem of supplying penicillin in mass quantities to the US Government during World War 2. Through our work to deliver thousands of life-saving and life-enhancing injectable medicines to millions of patients daily, West’s indelible mark on the healthcare industry has just begun. A name started our story. How will yours help write our future?  

 

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Job Summary

In this role you will coordinate business unit lean savings, goals and objectives through the use of statistical techniques by planning, scheduling, and executing process projects. You will communicate project status, and define and shape strategic planning efforts, including critical goal and objective development that identifies and improves critical processes necessary to achieve annual targets, including waste reduction to drive technical and operational improvement. This role will focus on coordinating, managing, and driving all transformation initiatives across site, ensuring alignment with both site’s and operational goals and the corporate stakeholders’ broader strategic objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Sets up and/or participates in continuous improvement events related to establishing a process or process improvement.
• Ensure that workplace process improvements are visible, that savings are tracked, validated and posted.
• Review control charts/data generated from facility processes to assure they are in a state of statistical control.
• Manage capital and non-capital projects to improve capacity, quality, efficiency, utilization and safety at the lowest cost. Manage projects by maintaining project timelines and continuously evaluating actual project costs with budgeted costs so projects will be completed on budget and in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with QA and Engineering to set up and conduct capability studies, design experiments, sampling programs, process validations, etc. to evaluate the manufacturing capability of products/ processes, and provide input, analysis and actions related to the data generated from these studies.
• Assists with facility/supplier audits and meetings, as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned based on business need.

Education

• Bachelor’s in engineering, Statistics or recognized equivalent required
• Master’s Degree in related field preferred

Work Experience

• Minimum 10 years (Sr Mgr) in related field required
• At least 5 years of experience in a manufacturing/production environment required
• Must possess a Six Sigma Green Belt certification and have at least 5 years of experience demonstrating and using Six Sigma/Lean tools and methodologies required
• Medical Device industry experience preferred

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Must have good interpersonal/leadership skills and be able to interface with all departments and team member levels.
• Must have excellent organizational, interpersonal and problem-solving skills and be able to interface with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Able to be aware of all relevant standard operating procedures as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description.

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Travel Requirements

5%: Up to 13 business days per year

Physical Requirements

Sedentary-Exerting up to 10lbs/4kgs of force occasionally, and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

Additional Requirements

• Safely work in construction environments
• Noise level in the work environment while on the production floor is usually moderate to loud. Hearing protection is required.
• Must follow and comply with Plant’s Dress and Hygiene Code (SOI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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