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Job Title: Business Excellence Program Engineer
Location: Any DePuy Synthes Joints site Globally
Description:
DePuy Synthes, part of Johnson & Johnson’s Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Business Excellence Program Engineer to be located in any Joints site.
DePuy Synthes, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, provides one of the most comprehensive orthopaedics portfolios in the world. DePuy Synthes solutions, in specialties including joint reconstruction, trauma, craniomaxillofacial, spinal surgery and sports medicine, are designed to advance patient care while delivering clinical and economic value to health care systems worldwide. For more information, visit www.depuysynthes.com.
Are you interested in joining a diverse and dynamic team that is helping improve and drive innovation? Apply today!
For this role, we are seeking an individual with a diverse business background, preferably with direct experience in medium to large scale manufacturing companies, with specific supply chain, process excellence and organizational change proficiencies. Excellent communication, influencing and facilitation skills as well as the ability to see multiple sides of an issue are critical. External J&J experience and/or academic study of Lean and process excellence are particularly beneficial.
Organization
This role will report directly to the Joints Business Excellence Senior Manager at DePuy Synthes.
Key Responsibilities:

Digital Applications Business Owner:

• Building business owners capabilities to deliver, scale, and support digital application deployment on factory floor.
• Prioritization of digital applications & align with the Digital Council to maximize business improvements.
• Define business priorities, shape the backlog, and manage business deployment resourcing (Change Management) in collaboration with the Technical Product Owner (DAT Team).
• Collaborate to assess readiness, maturity, and essential capabilities for deployment. Manage application deployment through “Hypercare phase”.
• Coordinate digital finance approval (new applications & sustaining) & actualization of savings.
• Accountable for product specific KPIs and communicating regular tracking to stakeholders.

Capacity Data Management:

• Sustain base business Capacity Data Management process globally (note: Ops Value Stream Managers per site own the data).
• Continue to standardize capacity data management procedure across all sites
• Ongoing reviews of capacity data accuracy & being single point of contact for any global capacity data issues (not Optimizer Tool itself).
• Drive efficiencies in how we gather & sustain capacity data. (Digitization etc.)
• Point of contact for the capacity module within AIR database

Other responsibilities:

• Lead the change management aspects of the Lean program.
• Develop and co-ordinate plant-wide lean/digital training modules.
• Deploy agreed standard methodologies to other sites across the Joints Reconstruction sector.
• Actively promote the use of the DMAIC framework for all reengineering type activities.
• Ensure all transformation changes are conducted to the highest of standards in a safe, compliant, and effective manner.
• Facilitate lean/digital driven events throughout the manufacturing and transactional value streams that deliver breakthrough process improvements.
• Develop and implement a fully integrated consistent Standard Work program for all levels across the site.
• Instill and maintain a sense of urgency and customer focus across the site.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and a clearly identifiable work ethos throughout the lean program.
• Develop and lead reciprocal Lean/Digital initiatives within the site.

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QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications:

Education and experience requirements:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s and/or University degree is required; a degree focused in Engineering, Science or Business is preferred.

Required:

Key Competencies

• Minimum of five (5) years of relevant work experience
• Extensive knowledge and application of Lean principles, tools, and methodologies.
• Ability Influence/collaborate with cross functional stakeholders to support business goals.
• Self-motivated.
• Innovative and systems thinker.
• Effective structured problem-solving abilities.
• Facilitation skills to drive group participation and handle conflicts.
• Effective presentation and communication abilities.
• Flexible approach to work.
• Process focused and results driven.
• Strong data/digital literacy in conjunction with data visualization experience.
• Experience in Agile software development.
• Excellent interpersonal skills along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills are essential.
• Able to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment and manage a technical staff.
• Leadership experience in orchestrating cross functional matrix teams.
• Superior change management skills including the understanding of both individual change and organizational change.
• Ability to build trust and quickly build credibility. Must have strong collaboration and influencing skills.

Preferred:

• MS in Lean Operations, Process Perfection, and/or Operations Management
• Desirable Green or Black Belt Certification in Lean and/or Six Sigma.

Other:

• May require up to 20% domestic and/or international travel to other locations and sites.

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• Lead the change management aspects of the Lean program.
• Develop and co-ordinate plant-wide lean/digital training modules.
• Deploy agreed standard methodologies to other sites across the Joints Reconstruction sector.
• Actively promote the use of the DMAIC framework for all reengineering type activities.
• Ensure all transformation changes are conducted to the highest of standards in a safe, compliant, and effective manner.
• Facilitate lean/digital driven events throughout the manufacturing and transactional value streams that deliver breakthrough process improvements.
• Develop and implement a fully integrated consistent Standard Work program for all levels across the site.
• Instill and maintain a sense of urgency and customer focus across the site.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and a clearly identifiable work ethos throughout the lean program.
• Develop and lead reciprocal Lean/Digital initiatives within the site