Sr Manager, Operational Excellence

At West, we’re a dedicated team that is connected by a purpose to improve patient lives that has been at the center of our Company for more than a century. Our story began when Herman O. West solved the problem of supplying penicillin in mass quantities to the US Government during World War 2. Through our work to deliver thousands of life‑saving and life‑enhancing injectable medicines to millions of patients daily, West’s indelible mark on the healthcare industry has just begun.

A name started our story. How will yours help write our future?

Supported by benefit programs, we empower the physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our team members and their families.

In this role you will coordinate business unit lean savings, goals and objectives through the use of statistical techniques by planning, scheduling, and executing process projects. You will communicate project status, and define and shape strategic planning efforts, including critical goal and objective development that identifies and improves critical processes necessary to achieve annual targets, including waste reduction to drive technical and operational improvement.

This role will focus on coordinating, managing, and driving all transformation initiatives across site, ensuring alignment with both site’s and operational goals and the corporate stakeholders’ broader strategic objectives.

• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of all transformation projects, ensuring they are completed on time, with scope and within budget
• Establish clear metrics and KPI’s for each transformation initiative, regularly tracking and reporting on progress to SLT and key stakeholders
• Participate in the development and support of the West Business System (WBS), with the goal of sustaining operational standards on the site
• Develop and communicate a comprehensive transformation strategy that aligns with the site growth targets, technical & operational capability imperatives, operational excellence objectives and the Operating Units vision
• Provide thought leadership and direction for all transformation activities, ensuring they are prioritized, scheduled, and executed effectively
• Create strategic plans to eliminate waste within the business unit by utilizing lean processes, key performance indicators, metrics, cost savings, best demonstrated practices and enterprise resource management
• Create and execute a robust change management framework that prepares the site and its employees for upcoming changes, minimizes resistance, and maximizes adoption of new processes and technologies
• Ensures that all transformation initiatives are supported by effective communication plans that keep all stakeholders informed and engaged
• Develop robust, capable systems necessary to achieve the strategic goals and objectives and drive excellence through the manufacturing operations; assure that production processes are repeatable and capable of meeting specifications, by ensuring the consistent and uniform application of OPEX tool
• Provide leadership on lean thinking and lean processes to ensure established goals and objectives are met and provide methods to monitor processes to assure they remain in control
• Assist in the training and guidance for lean champions and team members to develop and implement Lean action plans and transfer lean initiatives to other West plants
• Sets up and/or participates in continuous improvement events related to establishing a process or process improvement
• Ensure that workplace process improvements are visible, that savings are tracked, validated and posted
• Review control charts/data generated from facility processes to assure they are in a state of statistical control
• Manage capital and non‑capital projects to improve capacity, quality, efficiency, utilization and safety at the lowest cost. Manage projects by maintaining project timelines and continuously evaluating actual project costs with budgeted costs so projects will be completed on budget and in a timely manner
• Collaborate with QA and Engineering to set up and conduct capability studies, designed experiments, sampling programs, process…