PPI Specialist III
About The Position
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. DESCRIPTION: Join our team as a PPI Business System Specialist III and contribute to continuous improvement across Thermo Fisher Scientific. You'll implement our Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System to enhance operational excellence, improve efficiency, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Working with site leadership and cross-functional teams, you'll facilitate Kaizen events, guide process improvement initiatives, and support a culture of continuous improvement that enables our employees to develop better processes. You'll help achieve significant results in quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction while supporting our mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.
Requirements
- Advanced Degree plus 3 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 5 years of experience leading continuous improvement initiatives in a manufacturing, laboratory, or regulated environment
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification required, Black Belt preferred
- Demonstrated expertise in lean methodologies including value stream mapping, 5S, standard work, and Kaizen facilitation
- Strong project management skills
- Advanced proficiency in data analysis, problem-solving techniques and root cause analysis
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with ability to work effectively at all organizational levels
- Strong financial acumen and ability to validate project savings with Finance
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
- Ability to work independently
- Excellent change management and stakeholder engagement capabilities
Nice To Haves
- Preferred Fields of Study: Engineering, Science, Business, Operations or related field
- Additional certifications in Project Management or Process Improvement methodologies beneficial
- Experience with PowerBI, Minitab or similar tools preferred
- Experience in cGMP/regulated environment preferred
Responsibilities
- Implement our Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System to enhance operational excellence, improve efficiency, and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
- Facilitate Kaizen events.
- Guide process improvement initiatives.
- Support a culture of continuous improvement that enables our employees to develop better processes.
- Help achieve significant results in quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
- Develop and deliver lean training programs and mentor teams.
- Lead multiple cross-functional improvement projects.
- Collaborate across matrix organization.
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO)
- 10 paid holidays annually
- Paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave)
- Accident and life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
