Job Description

Job Description

PPI Business Systems Specialist III

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

How will you make an impact?

Implement the Operational Excellence initiatives crafted to meet or exceed the key performance indicators such as revenue, EBITDA, Right-First-Time (quality), customer experience, and timely Delivery as well as improving Organizational Health. You will apply operational excellence tools to achieve process improvement.

What will you do?

You will join the Practical Process Improvement (PPI) team (Continuous Improvement), tasked to promote lean six sigma principles and operational excellence standard methodologies across all functions, driving the company's dedication to excellence. You will:

• Own continuous improvement through Operational Excellence.
• Leading by example, embodying our 4 core i values, dedication to our customers.
• Finding, developing and implementing, including basic cost-benefit analysis, new opportunities in order to drive continuous improvement.
• Working with Site leaders as necessary to build an action-biased culture of continuous improvement and accountability to improve growth, productivity, quality, and customer experience.
• Directly leading and project running continuous improvement activities Diagnostics, Just Do Its, workshops, kaizens and projects, using various methodologies, tools and systems: lean, six sigma, pull manufacturing, total productive maintenance, waste reduction, Lean Leadership, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen Blitz, Cell Design, Flow dynamics, 5S, Visual Management, 3P and various diagnostic tools, etc.
• Working closely with Finance, Quality, Safety and Project sponsors to achieve agreed final impact of project and collaborating with colleagues and partners to implement an operational excellence plan that supports site, business unit, and Thermo Fisher Scientific strategies.

How will you get here?

Education:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited higher learning institution with studies in Science, Engineering, Math, or Operations is highly preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience

• 3 years’ experience in a pharmaceutical or manufacturing work environment in the areas of production, engineering, quality or Laboratory.
• Hands on track record of implementing, sustaining LEAN fundaments - including visual management, 5S, tiered accountability, Gemba, leader standard work, value stream mapping, FMEA.

Preferred experience, skills & abilities

• Strong interpersonal, partnership and rapport building skills.
• Strong technical knowledge
• Proven track record to drive cross functional teams to solve problems and implement sustainable improvements within the organization.
• Self-advised, persistent and results oriented.
• Strong influencing skills
• Strong facilitation and presentation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

2000 USD