Make an impact by joining the Operational Excellence team at the Plymouth, Nathan Lane Site. This position blends your technical engineering skills with your analytical acumen to solve complex operations problems that drive capacity improvement, space and line optimization, cost reductions, operational efficiencies, all to provide a competitive advantage to the site and Medtronic. Take your career to the next level while supporting our mission to “alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.” 

A Day in the LifeIn this role, you will be focused on accelerating performance at our Plymouth Nathan Lane Site, through the deployment of the Medtronic Performance System (MPS). This will be accomplished through coaching and training teams, and employees on the tools and elements that make up MPS. You will deploy and sustain continuous improvement programs around Zero Loss, Strategy Excellence, Innovation Excellence, Value Stream Excellence, Maintenance Excellence, and Improvement Excellence with A3/DMAIC thinking and Lean Sigma toolsets, to support our growth.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop, implement, and sustain process improvement initiatives utilizing Six Sigma methodologies.
• Define, design, and implement continuous improvement programs to ensure programs are integrated vertically and horizontally across the organization.
• Define improvement projects aligned with business strategies.
• Analyze improvement programs and potential results.
• Facilitate and coach improvement teams.
• Establish and maintain performance metrics to measure program success.
• Install process excellence supports for program governance, project reviews, communications, training, certifications, and rewards.

• Bachelors degree required
• 0 years of experience required

• Lean and/or Six Sigma certification or training
• Proficiency in process mapping/value stream mapping
• Prior experience with ERP systems (SAP)