Operational Excellence Manager I

1 month ago

Galway, Ireland Boston Scientific Full time

Job Title: Operational Excellence Manager I

Work Mode: Onsite, Galway

Reporting to: Production Director

Closing Date: 28th October 2024

 

We are currently looking for an Operational Excellence Manager to join our Galway Campus on a permanent basis.

 

 

Purpose

  • The purpose of the role is to embed a culture of continuous improvement into the Galway organisation through a focus on Production Unit Excellence, Business Service Excellence, Continuous Improvement Reviews, Strategic Thinking and a mindset that there are always opportunities to improve Culture.

 

 

Responsibilities

  • Culture: Responsible for managing the annual culture survey and associated focus groups and incorporating key findings into the Site Strategic “Delivering Excellence” process as well Production Unit strategies and strategies of each the Business Service areas. Also responsible for embedding our behavioural standards into the Galway organisation, sustaining these and assisting with the High-Performance Leader training.
  • Site Strategy: Manage the site strategy “Delivering Excellence” process ensuring inputs are encouraged from all areas, a prioritisation process is in place to select most impactful projects and that a quarterly process is in place to communicate progress to all stakeholders.
  • Key Systems: The Operational Excellence Manager should drive strong systems-thinking campus-wide, own and improve the process by which each business support area improves its key systems including Value Stream Mapping and associated tools. Systems owned by the Operational Excellence Manager such as Galway’s Line Performance System (LPS) should be benchmark examples of how a great system should operate.
  • Production Unit Excellence: The Operational Excellence Manager working in partnership with the Production Unit Managers should ensure that a culture of Continuous Improvement is embedded in the Production units. This should manifest itself in increasing the Lean / Operational Excellence competence of all staff but especially the supervisors and product builders along with demonstrated examples of improvements in all aspects of the running of the Production Unit. The Operational Excellence Manager should put in place a system to ensure that each Production Unit has a roadmap showing their Lean / Operational Excellence improvement strategy with milestones.
  • Continuous Improvement (CI) Reviews: Manage the process for timely CI reviews in both Production and Business Support areas that take a balanced view with clear focus on “Go See” and connecting with people who do the work on a daily basis.
  • Benchmarking & Assessments: Manage and coordinate benchmarking visits to other sites ensuring that these are focussed and the knowledge acquired is documented and appropriately shared in the Galway site.  Manage visits to the Galway site by Suppliers and other organisations looking to learn from us and ensure that the feedback from visitors is documented and assessed for key themes. Organise for external Operational Excellence Assessors to assess our culture and key systems periodically to give us feedback on our Operational Excellence journey.

 

 

Skills

  • Leadership skills: Communication, Relationship building, coaching and developing people. 
  • Operational excellence and lean thinking.
  • Change management especially in area of culture.
  • Organisational awareness and business acumen.
  • Excellent Systems thinking and Value Stream Mapping.
  • Strong manufacturing line layout and flow competencies.
  • Project management skills.
  • Strategic and Critical Thinker.
  • Supply chain and Capacity Planning competencies.
  • Financial Management.

 

 

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing/Engineering field. Master’s preferred.
  • Minimum Experience: 8/10+ years’ in an operations environment.
  • 5 years + in leadership capacity.

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. Boston Scientific is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. Boston Scientific is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. If you require any arrangements during the recruitment process, please let us know.

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