PPI Business Specialist III

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

About Thermo Fisher Scientific 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, ensuring the safety of our food supply, or helping find cures for cancer.

Position Summary: You will join the Practical Process Improvement (PPI) team, tasked with promoting Lean Six Sigma principles and operational excellence best practices across all functions. As a PPI Specialist, you will drive the company's commitment to excellence by leading projects, mentoring teams, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Culture & Leadership: Lead by example to embody our core values and commitment to excellence. Act as a change agent to spread the PPI culture throughout the organization.

• Opportunity Identification: Identify, develop, and implement new opportunities to drive continuous improvement, including conducting basic cost-benefit analyses.

• Strategic Collaboration: Partner with area leaders and stakeholders to execute an operational excellence plan that supports site, business unit, and corporate strategies. Foster an action-biased culture of accountability to improve KPIs.

• Project Execution: Lead and facilitate PPI activities including diagnostics, "Just Do It" events, workshops, Kaizens, and longer-term projects. Utilize methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, Pull Manufacturing, TPM, Waste Reduction, VSM, Kaizen Blitz, Cell Design, Flow Dynamics, 5S, Visual Management, and 3P.

• Project Management: Manage approved operational improvement projects from initiation to closure, ensuring objectives are met, risks are mitigated, and post-implementation benefits are sustained.

• Financial Validation: Calculate financial opportunities realized through projects, working closely with Finance and Project Sponsors to validate the final agreed impact (savings/revenue).

• Knowledge Sharing: Act as an internal consultant and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the sharing and implementation of operational excellence best practices.

• Continuous Learning: Stay current with new developments in business process improvement methodologies and best practices, benchmarking against other market leaders and industries.
   

Requirements
Education & Experience

• Advanced Degree (Master’s) 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.

• Preferred Fields of Study: Engineering, Science, Business, Operations, or a related field.

• Required: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification.

• Preferred: Black Belt certification.

• Beneficial: Additional certifications in Project Management (PMP) or other Process Improvement methodologies.
   

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Technical Expertise: Demonstrated expertise in Lean methodologies, including Value Stream Mapping (VSM), 5S, Standard Work, and Kaizen facilitation.

• Project Management: Strong project management skills with a proven ability to lead multiple cross-functional improvement projects simultaneously.

• Analytical Skills: Advanced proficiency in data analysis, problem-solving techniques, and root cause analysis.

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to work effectively at all organizational levels.

• Training & Mentoring: Experience developing and delivering Lean training programs and mentoring teams.

• Results Oriented: Demonstrated success in achieving measurable results through process improvements.

• Financial Acumen: Strong ability to validate project savings and work collaboratively with Finance.

• Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Experience with Power BI, Minitab, or similar statistical tools is preferred.

• Soft Skills: Ability to work independently while collaborating across a matrix organization. Excellent change management and stakeholder engagement capabilities.

• Industry Knowledge: Experience in a cGMP/regulated environment is highly preferred.

• Travel: Ability to travel up to 20% as needed.