Manager, Continuous Improvement

Location

Memphis, TN | United States

Job description

Why RA/QA at Stryker?

Are you interested in working for a global company where you can work across functions and on a wide-variety of projects? As a member of Stryker’s RA/QA team, that is exactly what you will do! Here, we provide our RA/QA team the opportunity to learn new things, as well as endless growth opportunities! If you are interested in working at one of the World’s Best Workplaces, apply now !

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Who we want-

• Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams.
• Managers who drive performance. People who implement process improvements and leverage the talent of their team to consistently increase performance and productivity.
• Goal-oriented orchestrators. People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of skilled employees toward an important goal, prioritizing to the right activities that lead to success.

What you will do-

The Continuous Improvement Manager will lead projects dedicated to improving operational productivity and processes for the manufacturing facility in Arlington, TN. The key responsibility of this role will be to manage the transformational initiative to reduce costs and to identify and implement process improvements in all areas of the manufacturing process. This will require servant leadership, working cross-functionally with teams as well as managing projects designed to achieve the lowest overall costs and improve processes using Lean Methodology.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Drive the development, assessment, recommendations, and implementation of continuous improvement/re-engineering initiatives to simplify processes, eliminate waste, reduce operational risk and achieve cost efficiencies in the Arlington manufacturing process
• Develop a customer-focused CI framework that documents and monitors performances. Support initiatives through robust data driven analytics
• Train and mentor designated teams and individuals within the business on LEAN concepts and support the business to meet/exceed budgets
• Provides management support to remove barriers and facilitate conflict resolution in matrix organization
• Tracks and measures the CI program through leveraging the Stryker Production System and visual factory dashboards
• Identify, manage and drive cost improvement initiatives measured in dollars saved across the business
• Partners with local management to define relevant process KPI’s including ownership and variable that serve as the KPI inputs

What you need-

• Bachelor’s degree -required
• 8+ years of experience in continuous improvement, manufacturing, operations, engineering, management, or related field -required

• Lean Leader/Six Sigma certification -highly preferred
• PMP -highly preferred

About Stryker

Our benefits:

• 12 paid holidays annually

• Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program.

• Financial benefits include Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.

For a more detailed overview of our benefits or time off, please follow this link to learn more:  US Stryker employee benefits

About Stryker
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually. More information is available at  stryker.com.

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