Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
Join Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Continuous Improvement Specialist III. You'll implement the PPI Business System, improve systems, and train teams for success.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and collaborate with functional teams to streamline processes, improving the customer experience, enabling growth, growing colleague retention, and improving efficiency.
- Foster a culture that prioritizes taking action and continuously improving critical metrics in customer satisfaction, finance, people, and quality.
- Provide support to develop problem-solving capabilities within the organization at all levels.
- Train, mentor, and follow up with teams to ensure system improvements are sustained, and collaborators are running the processes independently.
- Work closely with the site PPI steering committee to identify ways to accelerate the culture change necessary to support the PPI Business System.
- Provide ongoing support to teams by deploying rapid responder teams on the floor to drive countermeasures.
- Help teams identify new projects through value stream mapping, data analysis, and daily management systems.
- Partner with the PPI Network to develop, promote, standardize, and share standard processes.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, operations, or business, or equivalent experience.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to connect with and positively influence leadership and all levels of the organization.
- A complete problem solver who can look site-wide to integrate and streamline systems for efficient benefit.
- Ability to drive continuous improvement in both non-operational and operational areas, including connecting cross-functional resources to remove waste along extended value streams.
- Passion for driving improvement and leading change.
- Proven track record for developing, training, and mentoring teams.
- Great communicator, including solid written, oral, and presentation-giving skills.
- Broad knowledge of multi-functional processes and financial business methods.
- High ethical standards to support a professional business code of conduct.
- Creative problem-solving skills, organizational, and time management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Leadership roles from fields like operations, commercial, engineering, quality, or product management.
- A Lean Practitioner with 3+ years of experience and a ‘hands-on’ track record of implementing successful TPS fundamentals, including elements such as visual management/5S, value stream mapping, standard work, metric boards, stand-up meetings, and project funnel coordination.
- Expertise in problem-solving applying a formal program/process.
Top Skills
What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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