Global BD Excellence Senior Manager - Factory Flow
Listed on 2026-01-02
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Engineering
Manufacturing Engineer, Systems Engineer -
Manufacturing / Production
Manufacturing Engineer, Systems Engineer
Global BD Excellence Senior Manager - Factory Flow
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Job Description SummaryThis position represents a fantastic opportunity for a talented, highly motivated, and positive individual to become a proactive member of BD’s global Operational Excellence (OPEX) community. Reporting directly to the Associate Director Global BD Excellence, the Global BD Excellence Senior Manager – Factory Flow will be passionate about creating a culture of operational and customer excellence, implementing change, and driving Continuous Improvement (CI) across the network through the BD Excellence program.
This strong operational excellence and continuous improvement identity will be created through the systematic application of Lean production and CI principles, methodologies, and associated tools, to ensure sustainable optimization of performance in the areas of quality, delivery, and cost, whilst improving safety.
- Key tasks and strategic accountability:
Coach factory teams, with regards to BD Excellence, with focus on external and internal benchmarking. Develop and mentor zero loss approach across critical areas to optimize quality, delivery and cost while improving safety. - Develop and grow capability through components and component teams to establish the fundamentals of excellence in safety, quality, and reliability. Coach and guide sites to ensure focus of resources and time on priorities.
- Coordinate BD Excellence components deployment. Continue to drive BD Excellence capability development through deployment of dynamically advanced aspects of component methodologies. Achieve long term CI objectives through multi-functional alignment of all resources toward shared goals.
- Develop and grow BD Excellence capability to help the site deliver a multi-year cost-to-win (CtW) program. Focus on building capability that improves problem solving, increases loss awareness, and empowers teams to eliminate factory-loss in an impactful, efficient, and sustainable way.
- Coaches associates on continuous improvement methodologies within manufacturing areas, with particular focus on Lean Workplace and Factory Flow component.
- Support plant BD Excellence Manager, BD Excellence Engineer, Logistics Engineer and Factory Flow / Lean Workplace component Leader in the definition of the Factory Flow and Lean Workplace RRoadmap, tracking benchmark and realize saving in Internal Logistics and Labor Productivity framework.
- Define the Roadmap of the Lean Workplace and Factory Flow component.
- Facilitate and/or lead specific breakthrough Kaizen events and/or bootcamp to enable targeted performance improvement and solution realization.
- On site coaching and assessments of the kaizen activities. Create governance to follow up the project and saving status.
- Help site leadership teams create strategic vision, ensure alignment through cascading Key Performance Indicators (critical metrics’) top down and bottom up.
- Support Lean Flow centers-of-excellence (COEs). Help develop standards and procedures. Optimize methodologies for different manufacturing technologies. Develop and leverage best-standard processes, protocol development and adoption. Ensure deploying sites establish and maintain appropriate component indicators, maintain and promote visibility of global component impact. Support maturity assessment program across multiple business units.
- Owns and drives the process to collaborate with the BD Excellence Business Units and other functional departments (GIE and TGS) to generate projects, solutions and procedures.
- Proactively leads multiple teams and projects to the desired results. Prioritizes cost savings projects. Manages to savings and timeline completion.
- Collaborate in the development and implementation of a strategic plan for continuous improvement in Factory Flow (Internal Logistic) and Lean Workplace.
- Serves as a champion to overcome barriers by addressing issues promptly. Does not hesitate to challenge the status quo in search of opportunities that help the business provide cost effective solution to the customer.
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