Senior Manager, Lean Manufacturing

Who we want:

• Lean practitioner & leader: An expert in fundamental lean tools who drives a culture of continuous improvement and waste elimination.
• Analytical problem solvers: People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
• Dedicated achievers: Relentless about quality, people who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
• Collaborative partners: People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.
  
  

What you will do:

Develop a Manufacturing Excellence roadmap to transform multiple business units across the Medical franchise to position manufacturing as a competitive advantage for Stryker. This will include managing a portfolio of projects driving breakthrough performance improvements across strategic KPIs in safety, quality, productivity and cost; leading the efforts of the lean lighthouse, VSM, TPI and Kaizen roadmaps; and developing talent and core competencies that support strategy execution and ingrain daily CI behaviors in our culture. Additionally, this role will collaborate with Global Manufacturing, sharing best practices and implementing continuous improvement standards.

• Collaborate with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers, and product specialists to optimize design and process for manufacturability. Serve as lean champion across the extended value chain from order entry to customer delivery in pursuit of manufacturing excellence.
• Drive lean to further our path to become a world-class value chain partner and ensures site and functional objectives align to GQO Manufacturing Excellence strategy.
• Lead and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives using Lean/6S methodologies and tools with cross functional teams from inception through implementation of recommendations and solutions.
• Lead and facilitate Gemba walks, coaching on continuous improvement, standard work development/modification/adherence, piece flow, takt time attainment, and problem solving abnormalities causing issues.
• Assist in Business Unit Labor Modeling by leading teams to evaluate production layouts, time studies and productivity standards.
• Develop value stream maps and conducts/facilitates value stream analyses at plant(s) and unit(s) levels.
• Manage portfolio of projects for the site and tracks and communicate performance to commitments through standard PMO.
• Provide communication and coach employees and leaders on the direction of Lean Transformation and daily management initiatives to drive lean behaviors.
  
  

What you need:

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of Manufacturing experience
• 8+ years of Continuous Improvement and/or Engineering leadership experience including familiarity with Toyota Production Systems/ LEAN and value stream mapping
• Direct team management experience
• Lean Kaizen facilitation
  
  

Preferred:

• Master's degree
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry
• Project Management Certification
• Six Sigma Certification
  
  

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, Orthopaedics and Spine 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.