Global BD Excellence Senior Manager - Factory Flow

Becton Dickinson Medical Devices•Sandy, UT

4d•Onsite

About The Position

This position represents a fantastic opportunity for a talented, highly motivated, and positive individual to become a proactive member of BD’s global Operational Excellence (OPEX) community. Reporting directly to the Associate Director Global BD Excellence, the Global BD Excellence Senior Manager – Factory Flow will be passionate about creating a culture of operational and customer excellence, implementing change, and driving Continuous Improvement (CI) across the network through the BD Excellence program. This strong operational excellence and continuous improvement identity will be created through the systematic application of LEAN production and CI principles, methodologies, and associated tools, to ensure sustainable optimization of performance in the areas of quality, delivery, and cost, whilst improving safety. We are the makers of possible BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
Minimum 5-years’ experience operating a production system.
Certified or recognized as a Production System practitioner.
Minimum 7 years manufacturing experience. (Preferred leadership experience in a plant)
Previous experience in implementing, and strong knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma business systems.
Excellent understanding of the interaction between operational excellence and customer service
Excellent and effective verbal and written communication skills with people at all levels
Strong track record in project or program management
Experience of working in a multi-site and multi-cultural environment
Business insight and ability to display the linkage between projects and desired business results
BD Excellence Factory Flow and Lean Workplace Knowledge : Time study knowledge (included 3M and Golden Zone); Mizusumashi and Internal Logistic Flows ; Supermarket implementation; Call off systems knowledge; Kanban Methodology, 5S and 5T.
Basic Smart Automation Knowledge : Karakuris, AGV, AMR, Palletization, Automatic Warehousing systems, etc…
Demonstrates expertise in problem solving, as well as training and coaching others.
Flexible and able to travel. Expected travel up to 70%
Language: Fluent English mandatory, Spanish is a plus.
Standout Colleague Ability to influence without authority
Leadership and Critical thinking
Working with highly matrixes organization / Organizational savvy
Building effective transversal team and network
Managing Complexity and diversity / Adaptability
Financial foresight
Ability to translate business objectives into tactical activities for the plant
Results Oriented
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the US.

Nice To Haves

Six sigma black belt certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Coach factory teams, with regards to BD Excellence, with focus on external and internal benchmarking.
Develop and mentor zero loss approach across critical areas to optimize quality, delivery and cost while improving safety.
Develop and grow capability through components and component teams to establish the fundamentals of excellence in safety, quality, and reliability.
Coach and guide sites to ensure focus of resources and time on priorities.
Coordinate BD Excellence components deployment.
Continue to drive BD Excellence capability development through deployment of dynamically advanced aspects of component methodologies.
Achieve long term CI objectives through multi-functional alignment of all resources toward shared goals.
Develop and grow BD Excellence capability to help the site deliver a multi-year cost-to-win (CtW) program.
Focus on building capability that improves problem solving, increases loss awareness, and empowers teams to eliminate factory-loss in an impactful, efficient, and sustainable way.
Coaches associates on continuous improvement methodologies within manufacturing areas, with particular focus on Lean Workplace and Factory Flow component.
Support plant BD Excellence Manager, BD Excellence Engineer, Logistics Engineer and Factory Flow / Lean Workplace component Leader in the definition of the Factory Flow and Lean Workplace RRoadmap, tracking benchmark and realize saving in Internal Logistics and Labor Productivity framework.
Define the Roadmap of the Lean Workplace and Factory Flow component.
Facilitate and/or lead specific breakthrough Kaizen events and /or bootcamp to enable targeted performance improvement and solution realization.
On site coaching and assessments of the kaizen activities.
Create governance to follow up the project and saving status.
Help site leadership teams create strategic vision, ensure alignment through cascading Key Performance Indicators (critical metrics’) top down and bottom up.
Support Lean Flow centers-of-excellence (COEs).
Help develop standards and procedures.
Optimize methodologies for different manufacturing technologies.
Develop and leverage best-standard processes, protocol development and adoption.
Ensure deploying sites establish and maintain appropriate component indicators, maintain and promote visibility of global component impact.
Support maturity assessment program across multiple business units.
Owns and drives the process to collaborate with the BD Excellence Business Units and other functional departments (GIE and TGS) to generate projects, solutions and procedures.
Proactively leads multiple teams and projects to the desired results.
Prioritizes cost savings projects.
Manages to savings and timeline completion.
Collaborate in the development and implementation of a strategic plan for continuous improvement in Factory Flow (Internal Logistic) and Lean Workplace.
Serves as a champion to overcome barriers by addressing issues promptly.
Does not hesitate to challenge the status quo in search of opportunities that help the business provide cost effective solution to the customer.
Report progress on UPH, savings, etc. for BD Excellence global reporting and visibility.