Lean Process Improvement Engineer

15 Corporate Services Division; United States; On-site; USD 73,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision and Dental Coverage

Retirement Plans

Instant pay

Job summary

Monument Health in Rapid City, SD is seeking a Performance Engineer to assess and improve healthcare process performance across operations. You will lead LEAN projects, evaluate data, and advise frontline teams and leaders to drive efficiency and quality in daily care workflows.

You will train staff in LEAN and PE practices, develop standard assessment methods, and deliver reports that distill root causes and opportunities for sustainable performance gains across the system and its affiliates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Related Field.
• Lean Six Sigma certification preferred (IASSC).
• Experience with LEAN tools and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Leads performance improvement projects and acts as primary performance improvement resource.
• Uses LEAN methodologies and tools to achieve project goals and outcomes.
• Trains and mentors subordinate employees as needed.
• Supports management in the development and implementation of more efficient, cost-effective business processes and strategies throughout the organization.
• Monitors operations performance and works to improve the availability and validity of information used in analysis and decision making.
• Industrial engineering background, knowledge or skills required. Process Improvement Specialist often supports this position.
• Provide appropriate consultation reports and process documentation to support identification and resolution of opportunities for improvement.
• Performs effective, comprehensive workflow assessments, gap analysis, and other evaluations to identify deficiencies in business and clinical processes and programs, recommending improvements.
• Lead the development, implementation and maintenance of an effective and sustainable assessment/recommendation/evaluation process for assigned processes and programs.
• Provide detailed analysis and identification of opportunities for improvement in productivity including but not limited to staffing models, roles, optimization of scope/scheduling, and adaptive resource management processes as well as process efficiencies.
• Perform root cause analysis and failure modes and effects analysis to identify causes/potential causes of failure and strategies to prevent recurrence.
• Provide well researched, well written analytical assessments and reports.
• Integrate regulatory, accreditation, policy and other standards into assessments tools and methodologies to provide integrated performance assessments and recommendations.
• All other duties as assigned.

Skills

LEAN

Process Improvement

Data Analysis

Training & Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Lean Six Sigma

Job description

Monument Health in Rapid City, SD is seeking a Performance Engineer to assess and improve healthcare process performance across operations. You will lead LEAN projects, evaluate data, and advise frontline teams and leaders to drive efficiency and quality in daily care workflows.

You will train staff in LEAN and PE practices, develop standard assessment methods, and deliver reports that distill root causes and opportunities for sustainable performance gains across the system and its affiliates.