Regional Director Continuous Improvement Engineering
Regional Director Continuous Improvement Engineering
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McKesson is an impactdriven Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights products and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here we focus on the health happiness and wellbeing of you and those we serve we care.
What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow make an impact and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients our communities and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrows health today we want to hear from you.
Job Summary
The Regional Director Continuous Improvement & Engineering leads a team that drives continuous improvement in all areas of operations. The DRL works with multiple departments to develop implement and deploy operational processes and best practices in facilities across the Region. This position will assist the Operations Team National Engineering Team IT and Quality departments in special reengineering or new projects as necessary.
Section A Specific Responsibilities
Process Improvement
Drives operational process improvements to achieve dramatic improvement in key business metrics of safety customer experience compliance productivity cost and employee development / engagement
Works with DCs leadership Team to conduct assessments of critical site and business needs. Actively partners with process owners to ensure results delivered / future state achieved and ability to connect the dots in the Operations function and ensures business priorities come first.
Leads regular DC Management Review meetings and provides regular reports of data metrics and actions to measure progress against the DCs objectives.
Develops a thorough effective and timely continuous improvement plan to address top business needs.
Identifies innovative solutions to solve operational inefficiencies
Applies company methodologies and engineering methodologies/tools such as product slotting studying labor standards (time studies) layouts and optimization of flow data profiling and analysis and resource modeling to improve DC operations.
Develops Work Measurement standards and analyzes data to determine required and optimal resources and / or MHE based on volume and standards.
Provides continuous improvement expertise across the network and implement industry best practices (Value Stream Maps DMAIC workshops Kaizen events 5S Lean)
Identifies risks and opportunities for improvement by monitoring DCs performance
Develops owns and communicates the Distribution Center (DC) Industrial Engineering KPIs and project roadmap.
Leads and drives programs and projects to improve operational effectiveness and financial performance including lean and operational excellence initiatives.
Identifies analyzes and interprets trends or patterns and problematic areas using statistical techniques and suggest improvements in complex data sets for the Region or a specific DC.
Engineering projects
DC Design provides detailed DC design including requirements for retrofit racking layout and elevation office locations data drops MHE selection parking
Analyzes data to determine required / optimal storage environment / design / layout
Channel and DC alignment support for DC startup; works cross functionally to ensure that items are aligned appropriately to DCs and/or Channels based on throughput SKU and storage capacities.
Analyzes facility capacity and utilization trends for future planning needs.
Ensures projects are executed effectively with the appropriate buyin from all levels of management and team members. Identify and quantify cost savings to all continuous improvement
Performs financial analysis to assemble business cases cost justifications and requests.
Engages with McKesson Canada and US networks to share best practices.
Section B Key Requirements
Bachelors Degree in Engineering (operations logistics supply chain)
Experience in a similar position
Project management experience
Understanding and experience in warehousing and distribution key asset
Six Sigma Black Belt certification preferred
Ability to effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects (properly allocate resources manage cost set strategies and deliver according to timelines)
Critical thinking problemsolving and decisionmaking skills; proactive nature and willingness to challenge existing processes and propose new solutions
Exceptional interpersonal skills to effectively source information obtain approvals build relationships and provide sufficient influence to achieve success
Able to work under minimum supervision and act as a team player
Knowledge and understanding of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs)
Fluent in French or English. Bilingualism an asset
Ability to work on various shifts to accommodate distribution center needs
Travel within the region required approximately 30 of the time.
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Our Base Pay Range for this position
$124800 $208000McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
