Continuous Improvement Specialist I PPI Business System

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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Continuous Improvement Specialist I (PPI Business System)

Position Summary And Key Responsibilities

Position Summary

Join a dynamic role at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. as a Continuous Improvement Specialist I (PPI). This role focuses on implementing the Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System at the workstream level. Enhance efficiencies, enrich the customer experience, and boost employee engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and collaborate with functional teams to streamline processes, improving the customer experience, enabling growth, retaining colleagues, and increasing efficiency.
• Nurture a proactive culture of ongoing enhancement to elevate important metrics in customer, finance, people, and quality areas.
• Support the development of problem-solving capabilities within the organization at all levels.
• Train, coach, and follow up with teams to ensure system improvements are sustained and collaborators independently manage the processes.
• Work closely with the site PPI steering committee to identify ways to accelerate the cultural change necessary to support the PPI Business System.
• Provide ongoing support to teams deploying rapid responder teams on the floor to drive countermeasures.
• Assist teams in identifying new projects through value stream mapping, data analysis, and daily management systems.
• Lead Kaizens, facilitate events, and mentor others to do the same.
• Provide input to productivity funnel and meet productivity expectations.
• Collaborate with the PPI Network to develop, promote, standardize, and share standard methodologies.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Rapid Responder, Master Mentor, or Power User Certifications (for internal hires) or equivalent.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to connect with and positively influence leadership and all levels of the organization.
• A complete problem solver who can integrate and streamline site-wide systems for optimal benefit.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement in both non-operational and operational areas, including connecting cross-functional resources to remove waste along the extended value streams.
• Passion for driving improvement and leading change.
• Excellent communication skills, including solid written, oral, and presentation-giving abilities.
• Broad knowledge of multi-functional processes and financial business methods.
• High ethical standards to support a professional business code of conduct.
• Creative problem-solving skills, organizational, and time management abilities.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

A Lean Practitioner with practical experience in successfully applying Continuous Improvement fundamentals, including visual management/5S, value stream mapping, standard work, metric boards, stand-up meetings, and project funnel coordination, along with expertise in formal problem-solving processes.

Experience in using digital tools such as Smartsheet, PowerBI, Power Automate, Mimica etc. to develop reports, dashboards and other digital solutions

This position does not have relocation assistance.

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