Productivity Management Engineer

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children's Hospital is seeking a Productivity Management Engineer to drive complex productivity-management projects across service lines, optimize workflows, and support labor-management strategies by analyzing data and coordinating system configurations.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, develop plans, facilitate meetings, track progress, translate reporting needs into policy, and implement improvement opportunities to maximize existing system capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance, or a health-related field.
• Lean Six Sigma certification.
• Two years of experience in project management, process improvement, business or financial analysis, or technical development.
• Two years of process-improvement experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with stakeholders and sponsors to identify concerns, define objectives, and determine assessment needs.
• Develops project plans outlining data requirements, resources, responsibilities, timelines, and approvals.
• Facilitates meetings and communicates project issues to leadership and teams.
• Manages project completion, monitors progress against plans and budgets, and coordinates adjustments.
• Maintains implementation plans and status reports and transitions changes to leaders.

Skills

Project management

Data analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance, or health-related field

Job description

At our company, our mission starts with our people. Guided by our HEART values of Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust, we strive to create a workplace where teammates feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work every day. As a Productivity Management Engineer, you’ll facilitate complex productivity-management projects across service lines to improve workflows and support effective labor management. You’ll partner with stakeholders to assess operational needs, analyze data, implement process improvements, and support system configuration using established project management and analytical methods.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with stakeholders and project sponsors to identify operational concerns, define objectives, and determine assessment needs
• Develops project plans outlining data requirements, resources, responsibilities, timelines, and approval requirements
• Facilitates meetings and interviews, prepares supporting materials, and communicates project issues and concerns to leadership and project teams
• Manages project completion, monitors progress against approved plans and budgets, and coordinates approved adjustments
• Maintains implementation plans and status reports and transitions completed process changes to department and unit leaders
• Evaluates current practices, user needs, workflows, risks, and potential solutions to identify improvement opportunities
• Collects, analyzes, aggregates, and interprets data to support assessments and recommendations
• Coordinates project resources and evaluates impacts and dependencies across the organization
• Recommends workflow and procedural changes to address risks, reduce process failures, and maximize existing system capabilities
• Develops and implements annual departmental labor-management objectives and reviews progress through quarterly meetings
• Partners with information systems teams and customers to analyze functional configuration needs for implementations, maintenance, and other projects
• Facilitates user-interface design discussions and documents configuration decisions, data sources, and data recipients
• Develops report requirements, translates reporting needs into business terminology, and updates end-user policies and procedures
• Prioritizes business-unit requests and coordinates project delivery with development teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance, or a health-related field required
• Lean Six Sigma certification required
• Two years of experience in project management, process improvement, business or financial analysis, or technical development required
• Two years of process-improvement experience required

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years. Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children ’ s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children ’ s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children ’ s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ’ s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children ’ s Health Plan, the nation ’ s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children ’ s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children ’ s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children ’ s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation. To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities. Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.