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Job Description

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.

How will you make an impact?

In this role, you will support site improvement efforts of all types. These efforts touch all business and manufacturing departments. (From the research and development of new product, through the on-time delivery to the customer.) These projects are strategically chosen to meet the needs of a rapidly growing business.

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 best practices across all functions, driving the company's commitment to excellence. Specifically, each PPI Specialist will be responsible for:

• Leading by example, embodying our core values and commitment to excellence, and spreading PPI culture.

• Finding, developing, and implementing (including basic cost-benefit analysis) new opportunities to drive continuous improvement.

• Working with area leaders as necessary to create an action-biased culture of continuous improvement and accountability to improve KPI’s

• Running continuous improvement activities:

• Diagnostics, Just Do It, 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 other various diagnostic tools

• Directly leading and project managing approved operational improvement projects, ensuring projects achieve desired objectives, managing expectations and risk, and ensuring post-implementation benefits are realized.

• Calculating opportunities realized through projects, working closely with Finance and Project sponsors to achieve agreed final impact of project.

• Staying up to date with new developments in business process improvement methodology and best practices, including learning from other market leaders and industries.

• Acting as an internal consultant for sharing and implementation of operational excellence best practices primarily within the site.

• Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to execute an operational excellence plan that supports site, business unit, and Thermo Fisher Scientific strategies

• Implement projects on annual operational excellence road-maps to drive continuous improvement

• Other duties as required.

How will you get here?

Education:

• Minimum required education: Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or related field

• Training in and application of lean manufacturing or like principles

Experience

• 3+ years of Continuous Improvement experience

• 3+ years’ experience in an operations/ manufacturing environment

• Proven track record with cross functional teams and new process development

• Familiarity with Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Query, and SQL highly preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills.

• Strong project management skills.

• Demonstrated ability to drive cross functional teams to solve problems and implement sustainable improvements within the organization.

• Strong influencing skills

• Strong facilitation and presentation skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Data analysis and Data analytics

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one global team of 100,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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