Opex Project Lead
FRS Recruitment
Waterford
Our client, a leading multinational life science company in Waterford, are currently looking for a OPEX Project Lead to join their team within the Operational Excellence Department. Principal Responsibilities: * Engage in managing site strategic prioritization activities aligned to the site strategic roadmap. * Define, Develop and implement a Site level CIP structured System to best in class industry standards that leverages quality, customer service and operational cost metrics to understand cost drivers and identify CIP and Cost of Quality opportunities. * To enable a structured process that aligns to the annual Strategy and Budget Cycle that develops prioritized CIP's and a process of ensuring a pipe line of Live, Candidate and completed projects. * To enable structured monthly reviews of project performance to ensure delivery of CIP goals, with a forward view of activity. Ensure Site management understands state of the business, cost drivers and CIP opportunities and that Project savings and expenses are tracked for every active project. * Own, Develop and Manage the Site Strategic Space planning process with a 3 year forward view, to ensure that space requirements align to site strategies together with current and future customer demands. For both manufacturing and support functions. * To ensure analysis of all site resources are reviewed and forecasted to support future customer demands. Focusing on Current space layouts, new product introduction and transfer requirements, developing optimized factory of the future layouts. * Facilitate a quarterly review process of space transition that ensures SLT approval and sign off. * Use Problem Solving, Six Sigma and Lean tools & techniques to analyze business processes and identify project opportunities. * Complete process reviews to identify process bottlenecks and capacity constraints, identify and implement ways to eliminate. * Act as change lead and key member of team implementing Process excellence strategy for the site. Support process excellence & change management projects in implementing best in class methodologies and management systems e.g. Standard problem solving, Visual factory etc. * Ensure all improvement activities are aligned with quality and completed with a compliance Focus. Generate rationale and associated statistical analysis to support proposed process improvements. Requirements: * 3-5 years' experience working in Procurement in Healthcare industry & experience working in a regulated environment. * Strong Operational and Engineering experience. * Strong technical competence and comprehensive understanding of manufacturing technologies in a high volume regulated environment. * Project Management experience at a senior level. * Third level qualification in science or engineering. * Self-directed and highly motivated with the ability to prioritize and make decisions. * Experience with execution of LEAN and/or Six Sigma process. * Experience in contributing to a lean transformation/change management. * Knowledge of advanced statistical tools and experience in analyzing process performance based on data. * Experience in managing/developing people and influencing different levels of management. * Strong personal accountability for project throughout its lifecycle. On offer is a generous salary & benefits package including bonus, VHI cover, Pension and Educational Assistance. Consultant: Leo Cordingley - 086 049 5443. This job originally appeared on RecruitIreland.com.
2016 days ago