GE HealthCare Path Leadership - Global Coils Lean Leader 

United States, Michigan 

513068589

• Standardize daily management system, TAKT (hour-by-hour), and Demand Planning to drive visibility of line health and production abnormalities.
• Train, Coach and Develop Operations Management to Institutionalize Lean methodology with the hourly employees to make Lean a core part of Coils culture and improve overall site engagement and adoption of changes.
• Drive improved product quality and compliance by identifying manufacturing issues, developing advanced manufacturing cost-effective solutions, and overseeing successful implementation into production.
• Drive effective root cause analysis and problem solving to identify and resolve manufacturing and quality problems related to methods, processes, tooling, equipment and product design.
• Monitor and improve productivity through the use of Lean Six Sigma or related tools, while ensuring all customer commitments are met with quality and in a timely, cost-conscious fashion.
• Drive rigor in process capability assessment, process layout, tooling and equipment development and QMS Design Transfer execution.
• Drive Manufacturing Process Engineering initiatives across Coils while providing business-wide impact and enabling sharing of best practices across the Global Supply Chain.
• Ensure regulatory compliance through Qualification & Validation. Responsible for ensuring rigor in determining processes requiring validation, development of plans and analysis criteria, execution, and final analysis and acceptance.
• Drive continuous simplification of QMS methods and their applications by working with cross- functional teams including Operations and Quality Assurance.
• Develop and Execute action plan(s) to reduce or eliminate defects. This will be accomplished by leading, influencing and doing.
• Provide Lean leadership and simplification to key areas of supply chain.
• Work with the operating leaders to develop strategic deployment planning as well as specific goals and priorities that drive lean principles and concept across the business.
• Serve as a change agent by influencing, communicating and institutionalizing a culture of simplification and standardization.
• Coach Lean Manufacturing Leaders and plant leadership in the use of Lean tools and the simplification methodology to drive significant business impact.
• Facilitate Kaizens, value stream mapping sessions, and activities to improve customer satisfaction, reduce cycle-time, and achieve real business results.
• Conduct regular value stream reviews with Manufacturing Leaders to assure the team drives significant and measurable business impact.
• Communicate progress, status and issues to the business leaders - Seek, share and institutionalize best practices.
• Lead the development of Kaizen roadmap, value stream mapping, 5S implementation, DMS, and other lean tools to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Analyze key performance metrics (KPI), identify trends, and provide data-driven recommendations for improvement in cost, quality, and efficiency.
• Work closely with operations, quality, engineering, and other departments and serve as a change agent by influencing, communicating and institutionalizing a culture of simplification and standardization.
• Develop and coach lean skills and competency at all levels of the organization fostering a culture of continuous improvement and employee engagement.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• BS or BA Degree with at least 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Lean Certified – preferably at Black Belt or Master Black Belt with examples of recent, successful project execution, and problem solving with VSM, Kaizen, A3 as part of an extensive Lean toolbox.
• Recent experience leveraging a wide variety of tools from Lean and Six Sigma (VOC, facilitation of cross functional teams, Pareto, fishbone, Pugh, PICK, Pull, SIPOC, 5S, process mapping in Visio, Miro, etc.).
• Experience in visual management such as creation of digital dashboards (Spotfire, Smartsheet, Excel, AHA, Clarity PPM).
• Experience Managing & Leading Enterprise Company, Site, or Function (GM, Dir, VP, COO).
• Experience in influence without authority.
• Recent experience in coaching and mentoring at all levels across an organization in scrum framework and Lean methodologies with measurable results.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead a cross-functional team in a dynamic environment.

Desired Characteristics:

• Engineering degree, Master's Degree, and/or Master Black Belt Certification
• Collaborative, Open, Transparent, Inquisitive, Direct Personality and Style.
• Ability to accurately assess key business metrics and situations from a general manager’s perspective.
• Ability to translate current systems of work and corresponding performance into Lean and Agile terminology.
• Proven ability to bring order and structure to a function and/or organization with standard work and daily management.
• Ease in leading at all levels within a company.
• Highly skilled at time management & prioritization while working across business lines
• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated facilitation & training experience