Operational Excellence Practitioner
GSK is seeking a Lean Six Sigma Practitioner to join our GSK Production System (GPS) team for our Zebulon Site to deliver on our GPS maturity plan. As a Site Lean Six Sigma Practitioner (GPS Practitioner), you will partner with the Site leaders and their teams to deploy and embed the GPS standards to enhance business performance in Quality, Safety, Service, Cost, and Innovation. You will be a member of the GPS and Strategy team reporting directly to the Head of GPS & Strategy.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Implement GPS program deployment according to GSK standards and as aligned with the global OneGPS roadmap for the assigned value streams.
- Role model GPS skills and lean leadership behaviors and be a subject matter expert in GPS and Lean Six Sigma. Establish and lead the site continuous improvement projects aligned to the OneGPS standards.
- Lead day to day deployment of the GPS standards as well as all related improvement activities at site level (business impact on safety, quality, cost, and people). Must be an active participant in Process Performance Management of assigned value stream.
- Support SLT in the identification of financial and non-financial benefits associated with GPS implementation.
- Teach, train, mentor, coach at all site levels in GPS and Lean methodologies. Must be active in problem solving and Gemba daily.
- Drive and develop the capability of staff at all levels to lead and own their CI plans.
- Be an active member of the Regional GPS network including regular performance reporting and sharing of best practices; Benchmarking site performance vs other sites / companies to set appropriate Operational Performance ambition.
- Facilitate problem solving, Accelerators, Kaizen Events, and DMAIC workshops.
- Facilitate project team meetings to oversee the planning and execution of project activities to ensure alignment with the expectations and timelines.
- Partner proactively with team members to identify risks, gaps, and resource bottlenecks and then develop and implement mitigation plans.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and collaborate across functions.
- Measure project performance versus plan and milestones using appropriate systems, tools and techniques including but not limited to dashboards, metrics.
- Effectively communicate the status and risks ensuring internal stakeholder accountability and awareness.
- Perform other responsibilities as required.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, Engineering, Life Science, Quality, or Logistics.
- 5+ years manufacturing environment
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Lean bronze level certifications.
- Experience supporting Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliance
- Basic understanding and use of AI.
- Project planning and execution management
- Relationship management
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt preferred.
- Well versed in MS applications
- Problem solving in the context of site goals
- People change management concepts and practice
- Training Skills
- Coaching Skills
About the Zebulon Site
GSK’s Zebulon site is a global supplier of Respiratory and Solid Dose medicines to patients around the globe and the largest GSK Pharmaceutical secondary manufacturing site in North America. The site is located less than 30 minutes from downtown Raleigh, Wendell, Knightdale, Rocky Mount, Wilson, and Wake Forest.
Key differentiators about GSK and Zebulon:
- Our commitment to inclusion and diversity – we see diversity as a critical advantage of ours
- Our focus on cultivating a positive work environment that cares for our employees
- Demonstrated opportunities for continued career growth driven by individual ambition
- Leaders that care about their teams and growth of both individuals and the company
- A priority focus on Safety and Quality
- Clean and GMP compliant work environment
- Onsite cafeteria
- Onsite gym
- Temperature-controlled climate
- Licensed, onsite Health & Wellness clinic
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Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
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