PPI Business System Specialist III

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Business Job Title: Site PPI Lead (Continuous Improvement)

Job Profile Title: (Internal title) PPI Business System Specialist III

Direct Report To: European PPI Manger. Matrix to Site Director

Career Band: 6

Career Track: Professional

Location: UK - Loughborough - Bishop Meadow Road

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

How will you make an impact?

As part of the site leadership team, you will lead and facilitate the Loughborough site PPI tools and structures. With a strong background in lean and continuous improvement tools and techniques you will support the site in delivery its PPI bowler objectives, facilitating complex site problem solving, and lead the PPI road map and drive continuous improvement cultural change on this COMAH regulated site with 160+ employees.

What will you do?

• Leads, Maintains Facilitates and Embeds a ‘PPI’ Culture’ through training and engagement
• Responsible for delivery of the PPI roadmap
• Champions and Supports Continuous Improvement and Lean Thinking across the site
• Identifies and drives site PPI Opportunities as well as the delivery of a site PPI Funnel
• Leads and maintains all PPI Metrics providing reporting of such to the business at all levels
• Partners with the Finance function to evaluate and confirm saving potentials
• Validates productivity savings against the site P&L to ensure accurate accounting
• Partners with other LCD Business Unit PPI and beyond on cross-functional/divisional activities
• Facilitates and Participates in Kaizen and 8 Step Events to generate productivity and growth
• Provides expert knowledge on Continuous Improvement including but not limited to; Tiered Daily Management, Problem Solving, Standardised Work, Gemba Walks, Leader Standard Work and 5S.

How will you get here?

Preferred Hiring Criteria:

Education

• Qualifications held within the continuous improvement tools and techniques/CI sphere (such as six sigma black belt or similar)

Experience

• Proven Experience in PPI/Continuous Improvement or a similar role (Chemical Industry advantageous but could be any regulated industry).
• Experience of bottling line operations.
• Consistent record to drive cultural change within a dynamic and fast paced environment.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Proven Experience in PPI/Continuous Improvement or a similar role (Chemical Industry advantageous but could be any regulated industry).
• Experience of bottling line operations.
• Consistent record to drive cultural change within a dynamic and fast paced environment.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one global team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need! #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued!

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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