Lean Leader, Contrast Media Operations

Job Description Summary

Coach, drive and lead lean behaviors, principles, and tools across an operational or functional area. Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in operational business metrics.

Job Description

GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our purpose is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

At GE HealthCare, our mission is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. With this inspiring purpose and bold strategic ambition, we are committed to pushing the limits of what’s possible in healthcare.

Central to achieving this vision is our LEAN transformation, which is designed to make our organisation simpler, faster, and more customer focused.

This transformation will accelerate performance improvements and strengthen our capabilities, enabling us to achieve our strategic goals. LEAN is how we deliver value to our people, patients, and consumers.

As the Contrast Media Operations LEAN Leader, you will be part of a global team and be responsible for both sustaining & driving the LEAN transformation roadmap across the CM fill & finish manufacturing sites in Cork, Shanghai and Oslo. This roadmap will support both the growth and exponential strategic development of the CM Value Stream and its capacity.

Pharmaceutical Diagnostics (PDx) is a world leader in producing imaging agents that enhance the quality of diagnostic images used to diagnose and monitor diseases.

Reporting to the ISC LEAN & Digital Director, this role will partner with the Contrast Media Operations SVP and Leadership Team. Your focus will be on transforming the Value Stream into a model of LEAN excellence. This role is vital for driving the cultural change necessary to evolve GEHC PDx into a truly LEAN organisation. Hands-on experience in applying Lean principles and driving continuous improvement will be essential to your success in this critical leadership position.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Responsible for partnering with site and business leaders to define the key streams that will have the greatest impact on the business and the customer.
• Serve as a change agent by influencing, communicating, and institutionalizing a culture of simplification and standardization.
• Coach Lean Manufacturing principles and behaviours to our plant leadership teams in the use of Lean tools and the simplification methodology to drive significant business impact & to lead the coaching culture.
• Develop Lean capabilities by training and coaching key team members to build Lean muscle within the organisation.
• Enhance the Operating system through the cultivation of our core 4 tools (Daily Management, Standard Work, Problem Solving, and Action plans).
• Support across all levels of the Lean Management System from ‘shop floor’ to executive level.
• Foster communication with the ‘shop floor’ to understand their challenges, generate ideas, and support the Lean Management System at all levels.
• Ensure proper training and coaching for effective daily management and a true “embrace the red” culture.
• Development and deployment of a Kaizen funnel required to achieve objectives for the year and/or as part of a multi-year program.
• Responsible for driving Lean Maturity levels across the Cork site as per the GE HC Lean Framework.

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in any technical or analytical domain with a preference for Supply Chain Manufacturing related degrees (Business, Economics, Engineering).
• Experience leading large Lean transformational rollouts within complex systems, matrix organisations with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in highly regulated industries (cGMP).
• Proven success in leading significant business process improvement.
• LEAN/Six Sigma trained with the ability to apply tools and process rigor.
• Proven successful application of Lean tools: 80/20, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Standard Work, FMEA, Problem Solving, Kanban, Visual Daily Management, Policy Deployment – GEMBA Walks.

Skills

• Customer focused with emphasis on Voice of Customer and Customer Impact.
• Strong 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.

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

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.