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GE Healthcare MICT Lean Leader in Boston, Massachusetts
Job Description Summary
Coach, drive and lead lean behaviors, principles, and tools by partnering with Operating Leaders in business management roles (e.g. GM of Business Unit, or Executive Lead of a Function). Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in operational business metrics.
GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.
At GE Healthcare, our passionate people are creating the products, solutions and services our customers need to deliver the best patient care possible.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
Coach and develop team members at all levels of the organization to build lean skills and become practitioners, with a focus not only on tools but on methods and most importantly on behaviors.
In partnership with business leaders and other lean resources, increase the organization's lean maturity using the standard GEHC lean maturity model
Lead, facilitate and coach cross functional teams in improving processes and systems.
Apply and coach advanced lean methods to improve process stability, increase on-time delivery, reduce lead time and improve cash flow.
Assist the execution of relevant Hoshin Kanri breakthrough transformations.
Support the roadmap of lean priorities and maturity of the GEHC organization.
Lead value stream optimization.
Partner with business leaders to increase the organization's kaizen mindset and cadence.
Maintain Kaizen Event Funnel & Roadmap for the Segment/Region/Support Function.
Coach leaders at various levels in improving daily management and problem solving
Partner with GEHC corporate lean team in continuously improving the lean method.
Must be able to travel approximately 50% of the time domestically and internationally.
Qualifications / Skills Requirements:
Demonstrated ability in solving complex problems and transforming business performance and process through the application of Lean techniques
Demonstrated ability to increase the organization's lean maturity.
Lean practitioner, capable of facilitating kaizen events and coaching core tools such as Daily Visual Management, Scientific Problem Solving, Value Stream, Optimization, Standard Work and Transactional Process Improvement.
Proven to be effective in driving outcomes in large, matrixed organizations – understands how to navigate geographies, cultures, relationships, etc. Can drive work around the world because they are accountable, trustworthy, credible, committed, and intellectually agile.
Change agent, able to make the case for lean, demonstrate immediate impact and drive cultural change.
Highly collaborative; comfortable with constructive conflict and debate normally associated with change.
Critical thinker with the ability to bring others along, even those with conflicting priorities.
Impactful communicator from the shop floor to the boardroom.
Basic Qualifications
BS or BA Degree; Master’s Degree preferred
Minimum of 10 years mastering a variety Lean and Growth-related tools such as: Hoshin Kanri / Strategy Deployment, Problem Solving, Daily Management, Standard Work, Value Stream / Process Mapping, TPS methodology, Toyota Kata.
Experience Leading / Improving / Transforming within Factory, Supply Chain, Supplier Performance.
We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors, to act with humility and build trust, lead with transparency, deliver with focus, and drive ownership - always unyielding integrity.
Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.
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While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.
Additional Information
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights_10_20.pdf) . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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