Lean Facilitator of Continuous Improvement

The Lean Facilitator of Continuous Improvement serves as a coach, facilitator, and partner who helps leaders and teams improve safety, quality, efficiency, engagement, and reliability through the application of Lean methodology. This role is responsible for both direct support in leading multidisciplinary projects, and for building organizational capability for Daily Management, Lean leadership, innovation, efficiency, and Change Management. The position works in partnership with both local and system leadership in building and implementing strategy consistent with becoming a High Reliability Organization.

The Lean Facilitator of Continuous Improvement serves as a coach, facilitator, and partner who helps leaders and teams improve safety, quality, efficiency, engagement, and reliability through the application of Lean methodology. This role is responsible for both direct support in leading multidisciplinary projects, and for building organizational capability for Daily Management, Lean leadership, innovation, efficiency, and Change Management. The position works in partnership with both local and system leadership in building and implementing strategy consistent with becoming a High Reliability Organization.

• Facilitates Lean improvement activities including Kaizen events, rapid improvement projects and workshops, value stream mapping, and process redesign initiatives.
• Supports departments in identifying operational inefficiencies, waste, variation, and safety risks.
• Guides teams through structured problem-solving methodologies using A3 thinking, root cause analysis, PDSA cycles, and standard work development.
• Provides project status updates, feedback and appropriate reporting on project progress that drives organizational learning. Identifies and works to remove barriers that slow or prevent the successful attainment of process improvement and escalates them in a timely and effective manner.

• Support implementation and sustainment of HRO principles and behaviors across the organization.
• Reinforce a culture of safety, transparency, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with operational and clinical leaders to integrate Lean management systems into daily work.
• Promote reliability practices including huddles, visual management, and leader standard work.

• Coach leaders, managers, physicians, and frontline staff in Lean methodologies and continuous improvement principles.
• Develop internal capability for daily management and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate training sessions, workshops, and educational programs related to Lean and HRO practices.
• Mentor teams in sustaining improvements and monitoring performance outcomes.

• Assist departments with implementation and optimization of daily management systems.
• Support development of:
  Tiered huddles, Visual management boards, KPI tracking, Standard work, Leader rounding processes
• Help leaders create routines that drive accountability and operational reliability

Assist teams in establishing meaningful metrics and monitoring systems. Establish and monitor operational performance measures and key performance indicators to evaluate efficiency, effectiveness, and cost using available information system data, and design appropriate data collection methods when data are not readily available.

• Track and report improvement outcomes, sustainment measures, and project progress.
• Collaborate with analytics, quality, patient safety, and operational leaders to support data-informed decision making.

• Lead or support enterprise-wide strategic…