Operational Excellence Engineer

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At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and Med Tech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn

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Job Function:
Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub     Function:
Process Engineering

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description:

About Cardiovascular
Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we're developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.
Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Cardiovascular? Ready to join a team that's reimagining how we heal? Our Cardiovascular team develops leading solutions for heart recovery, electrophysiology, and stroke. You will join a proud heritage of continually elevating standards of care for stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients.
Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at
We are searching for the best talent for Operational Excellence Engineer.

Purpose:

The Operational Excellence Engineer is responsible for leading and driving continuous improvement and lean deployment across the Danvers site. They support the leadership team in this transformational change. Developing lean competencies to ensure lean knowledge and competencies are embedded and sustained in the organization.
They will work in close collaboration with the J&J Med Tech/Abiomed OpEx teams and business leaders to ensure standard process sharing & successful deployment of the OpEx methodologies. The role requires facilitation and project management skills that drive effective communication, coordination, and collaboration across relevant multi-functional groups to establish a strong continuous improvement and problem-solving culture.
You will be responsible for:
Challenge the status quo and identify and develop next wave business improvement opportunities at the US sites. Develop and present business cases to decision makers
Leads implementation of assigned OpEx initiatives and other improvement projects
Uses lean methodologies such as 5S, standard work, visual management, kanban, pareto and others in support of defining, measuring, analyzing, improving, and controlling improvement initiatives
Support training and awareness of OpEx tools and methodologies
Build organizational capability beyond OpEx team in deployment of improvement methodologies, tools and practices in the organization (such as "idea for improvement process", Lean & problem-solving tools, organizational change)
Facilitate/coach teams and individuals to apply tools
Act as change agent, support peers & management in realizing changes on site and influencing leaders without direct authority to improve culture and perspective
Connect with global OpEx organization: exchange knowledge/standard processes, benchmark, identify & drive adoption of proven practices

Qualifications/Requirements:

Bachelor's degree required - preferably in Business or Engineering
Requires 3+ years of work experience, preferably in an operations environment (distribution, production, etc..)
Proven experience in lean process optimization tools, preferably lean green belt certified
Ability to lead workshops/Kaizen events with cross-functional teams
Willingness to spend time on the operations floor
Result-oriented with the ability to analyze problems, reaching valid conclusions and finding the right solution
Collaborate effectively with all functions/groups within the organization
MS Office knowledge
Excels in a team environment while continually and constructively…