Lean Business Specialist (FTC)

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Job Description

Join our team as a Lean Business Specialist (PPI Business Systems Specialist) and contribute to continuous improvement across Thermo Fisher Scientific. You'll implement our Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System to enhance operational excellence, improve efficiency, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. support a culture of continuous improvement that enables our employees to develop better processes.

You'll help achieve significant results in quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction while supporting our mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

Please note that this position is offered on a 6-month fixed-term contract basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate Value Stream Mapping (VSM) activities to identify process inefficiencies, eliminate waste, and develop actionable improvement plans
• Apply Lean methodologies and tools, including 5S, Standardized Work, Kaizen, and 3P diagnostic frameworks, to optimize processes and drive operational excellence
• Support site leadership and cross-functional teams in implementing Lean initiatives and continuous improvement activities across the site
• Identify opportunities for process improvements; plan and facilitate Kaizen workshops and continuous improvement events, translating findings into practical action plans and best tools for measurable outcomes
• Drive change management and stakeholder engagement activities to promote adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working
• Apply appropriate Lean tools and methodologies to address operational challenges and support process improvements
• Deliver Lean training and provide practical coaching to teams to strengthen Lean capabilities and promote a continuous improvement mindset, including via Gemba walks
• Validating savings resulting from projects with Finance, e.g. in new efficiencies
• Support day-to-day management activities by coaching teams on Lean principles and best practices
• Monitor and support improvements in Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and operational performance against process improvements
• Collaborate across functions and organizational levels to foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and operational excellence
• Partake in Kanban audits

Requirements

• Advanced Degree plus 1 year’s experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 2 years’ experience leading continuous improvement initiatives in a manufacturing, laboratory, or regulated environment
• Preferred Fields of Study: Engineering, Science, Business, Operations or related field
• Additional certifications or experience in Project Management, Process Improvement methodologies or Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
• Knowledge of Lean methodologies including value stream mapping, 5S, standard work, and Kaizen facilitation
• Proficiency in data analysis, problem-solving techniques and root cause analysis
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder engagement skills with ability to work effectively at all organisational levels
• Adaptable, with ability to work independently while collaborating across matrix organisation
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite; preferably with experience in PowerBI, Minitab or similar tools
• Experience in cGMP/regulated environment advantageous

What We Offer

• Meaningful, Visible Work: Direct involvement in a live Lean Transformation initiative with real operational impact from day one
• Professional Growth: Opportunity to deepen and apply a full Lean toolkit in a regulated environment
• Collaborative, specialist team with cross-site reach who perform and develop together
• Good potential onward opportunities for candidates showing good potential

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.