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Job description
Who we want
Detail-oriented process improvers. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes – finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.
Self-directed initiators. People who take ownership of their work and need no prompting to drive productivity, change, and outcomes.
Strategic thinkers. People who enjoy analyzing data or trends for planning, forecasting, advising, budgeting, reporting, or sales opportunities.
Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond, by identifying root causes, evaluating optimal solutions, and recommending comprehensive solutions to prevent future issues.
What you will do
- Responsible for solving problems systematically, improve processes and products while adhering to regulatory requirements and project deadlines.
- Applies lean manufacturing and six sigma concepts focusing on cost reduction and improving efficiencies of a manufacturing environment.
- Independently determines and develops approaches to a variety of technical problems of large scope and complexity.
- Builds productive internal and external working relationships and may periodically provide guidance and train other team members.
- Provide operational excellence support for operations, ensuring that all activities are completed with all the operational needs and capabilities.
- Ensure quality of process and product as defined in the appropriate operation and material specifications.
- Will support to equipment based on right-sized-equipment, lean concepts, analysis of specifications, reliability, and regulatory requirements.
- Work with quality engineers to develop testing and inspection process from an lean mindset.
What you need
5+ years experience in the industry
2+ years experience managing kaizen events, problem solving, projects or process improvements initiatives, or leadership experience and/or substantial engineering support or project management experience in a team-based environment is required.
B.S in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
Certified Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt.
Strong knowledge and demonstration on Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise tools to work on improvement, problem solving (DMAIC, PDCA, A3, 8D, etc), CI culture transformation and cost reduction initiatives.
Strong knowledge in lean and six sigma concepts and tools
Strong knowledge in project management concepts and tools.
Fully bilingual (English & Spanish).
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. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.
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