GE HealthCare LEAN Expert 

Ireland, Cork 

77763355

This role is critical to driving the Cultural Change required to move Cork to a true LEAN organisation. The role requires hands-on experience applying Lean/driving results through continuous improvement and will be a contributing leader to the overall success of the program.

Roles and Responsibilities

Provide overall LEAN leadership to key areas of Cork business and drive the LEAN transformation by:

• Serving as a champion, coach, mentor for change by influencing teams to better understanding and adopt lean principles, problem-solving methodologies, digital adaptation and ultimately fostering a culture of change and servant leadership
• Partnering with business stakeholders to identify, prioritize and execute improvement opportunities through Kaizen
• Driving the execution of Kaizens and LEAN events to deliver on the Continuous Improvement plan
• Co-own event charter, metrics, scope, required pre-work and event execution plan
• Establish and execute a roadmap to build, implement and measure Standard Work (SW) across all business partner’s processes
• Define and prioritize processes and owners
• Train teams on standard work and define KPIs that demonstrate process health
• Establish and drive sustainment of Daily Management across the business partner’s processes
• Support across all levels of the Management System
• Establish and drive sustainment of Daily Management across the business partner’s processes
• Ensure proper training and coaching for effective daily management and a true “embrace the red” culture.
• The position will be a demonstrated leader in Lean methods and will act as a role model for ‘Lean mindset’ across the entire PDx business
• ‘Hands on’ approach in demonstrating application of Lean tools: Our Core 4 (Problem Solving, Daily Management, Standard Work, Action plans).
• Familiarity with various manufacturing process technologies – MES, EBR, AI
• Ideally familiar with driving change in regulated environments (e.g., FDA)

Qualifications and Experience

• several years’ experience in roles responsible for operations, transformation and/or quality
• Bachelor’s degree in any technical or analytical domain with a preference for Supply Chain Manufacturing related degrees (Business, Economics, Engineering)
• Experience in highly regulated industries
• Improvement mindset is essential, understands LEAN toolset with proven results
• Ability to facilitate and conduct Kaizen events
• Proven success in leading significant business process improvement
• Demonstrated leadership, ability to shape and drive transformational change
• Ability to drive and manage change in a matrix environment
• LEAN/Six Sigma trained with the ability to apply tools and process rigor

Skills

• Strategic mindset with hands-on approach
• Customer focused with emphasis on Voice of Customer and Customer Impact
• Outstanding communication ability across all levels of the business and between all functions with the ability to grow cross functional relationships and to influence outside of immediate sphere of control
• Tenacity/Passion/Determination – driven to chase the end goal and to drive the site performance forwards
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Intellectually curious, open minded and creative problem solver
• Motivated to achieve results through teamwork and cross functional collaboration

Total Rewards

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.