Senior Continuous Improvement Specialist

Munson Healthcare; Michigan; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Munson Healthcare in northern Michigan seeks a Senior Continuous Improvement Consultant to partner with senior leaders and drive improvements in strategy deployment, operational quality, efficiency and problem solving within the Munson Healthcare System.

You will coach teams across departments and service lines, applying lean principles and the Munson Alignment Framework (MAF) to achieve measurable operational and clinical process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required from an accredited college or university.
• Ten or more years of leadership and improvement experience in healthcare.
• Lean/LeanSixSigma certification or formal training with proven results.
• Strong communication with employees across all areas including physicians and executives.
• Excellent listening, influencing, and presentation skills; able to act as a change agent.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor teams to drive measurable operational, business and clinical improvements.
• Partner with senior leaders to implement strategy deployment, quality management and lean initiatives within the Munson Healthcare System.

Skills

Leadership

Lean/LeanSixSigma

Communication

Emotional intelligence

Influencing

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business, Nursing, or other professional discipline

Job description

More Than Just Care,It’sCommunity

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where peoplevacation.That’slife at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.

If you want a career in healthcare and alifestylemost people only dream about - with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material.To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence,teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You

• Grow:Tuition reimbursement, in-person and onlinedevelopment,and access to ourcareer hubto help you advance.
• Thrive:Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and freeindividualretirement counseling.
• Be Well:Freewellness platform for you and your family,pluspersonalizedsupport for personal or family challenges.
• Be Heard:Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

A Day inthe Life

• The Senior Continuous Improvement Consultant provides consultation within the Munson Healthcare System. They partner with senior leaders and others to drive improvements in strategic initiatives, operational quality, efficiency and problem solving. The Senior Continuous Improvement Consultant has a strong understanding of the Munson Healthcare Alignment Framework (MAF) and principle-based leadership behaviors that align, enable and improve the organizational work of continuous improvement. They must possess in-depth knowledge of strategy deployment, quality management and lean improvement principles with experience in implementing improvement initiatives. The Continuous Improvement Consulting Specialist will educate, mentor and coach team members and leadership in the work required to accomplish measurable operational, business and clinical process improvements. They must be able to work with individuals, departments, care teams, value streams and/or service lines throughout the system, adjusting to the needs of varied customer populations and work settings.

What’s Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business, Nursing, or other professional discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Ten or more years of leadership and improvement experience gained through the implementation of successful, organization-wide operational improvement projects in the healthcare industry and in an organization that is a size and complexity comparable to Munson Healthcare is required.
• Lean/LeanSixSigma certification or formal training and equivalent experience in the successful application of these methods with a demonstrated record of achieving favorable results is required.
• Must be able to communicate and interact effectively with employees from all areas of the organization including physicians and executives.
• This role requires strong listening and influencing skills, a high level of emotional intelligence and strong written, oral, visual and presentation skills as well as the ability to work collaboratively with organizational leaders as a change agent.

Preferred Requirements

• Clinical experience in nursing, medicine, pharmacy or allied health profession is valued.
• Masters in Engineering, Business or Healthcare preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.