Operational Excellence Specialist

About the role

Responsible for the Operational Excellence function and execution of all programs and initiatives to help build a culture of continuous improvement across the manufacturing site as aligned to key strategic goals; includes the implementation of Zimmer Biomet Operating System (ZBOS) and delivering finance and performance commitments. Apply principles of Class A, project management, lean manufacturing and six sigma and other CI methodologies to support manufacturing operations. This role is hands on and directly accountable for business results. This will require the ability to contribute as both a leader and individual contributor across CI projects. This role will report direct line to Site Director/General Manager and dotted line to the Director of Operational Excellence.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for deploying Operational Excellence initiatives in the plant. Examples of these programs and initiatives are Cost Saving Program, Class A, Workflow Lean Transformation, Quality Begins With Me, DMAIC Problem Solving, Lean Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance, etc.
• With oversight from the OpEx Director, develops, coordinates and executes the Operational Excellence Annual Deployment Plan (ADP)
• Provide statistical support
• Appropriate data analysis in regulated environment
• Design statistically valid experiments which include power and sample size
• Assists site leadership team in selecting and prioritizing projects that align with plant goals and strategies.
• Responsible for the sustaining and execution of cost saving program, metric tracking and reports within the site.
• Participates on CI High impact projects that result in site savings as defined as part of goals and objectives. Achievement of defined savings requirement will be part of annual performance expectations.
• Performs related duties as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (master's degree preferred) in Mathematics, Statistics, Biostatistics or similar area of study, required.
• 3 to 5 years of related experience preferred.

Skills

• Direct involvement in continuous improvement projects.
• Strong analytical/statistical problem-solving tools (DMAIC/PDCA/8 Disciplines)
• Ability to support multiple projects and balance priorities.
• Broad business knowledge and ability to link customer needs with business processes.
• Strong coaching, influencing, facilitation and organizational skills.
• Excellent oral/written communication and presentation skills.
• An understanding of Change Management.
• Ability to explain statistical concepts in basic terms to non-statisticians
• Advanced skills in MS Office and statistical software packages (Minitab, Visio, etc.).

Travel Expectations

This position requires travel up to 10%.