Senior Operational Excellence Specialist 1

Holly Springs, MS - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position Overview

The Sr. Operational Excellence (OpEx) Specialist is an experienced hands-on individual contributor responsible for designing leading and sustaining continuous improvement initiatives that improve safety quality delivery cost and employee engagement across the site and/or network. Leveraging deep Lean Six Sigma expertise (Black Belt) and strong change leadership this role partners with functional leaders in Manufacturing Quality Supply Chain Engineering and Support functions to identify value creation opportunities execute improvement projects through the full DMAIC/PDCA lifecycle build capabilities and embed standard work and visual management. This role ensures measurable business outcomes aligned with company strategy and compliance requirements (cGMP EHS) and acts as a coach and catalyst for a culture of operational excellence.

Company Overview

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs North Carolina. By end of 2025 well open North Americas largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility offering drug substance production fill-finish and packaging under one roof.

Were looking for passionate mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine cure or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and were proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose energy and drivewhat we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine Lets transform healthcare together!

Holly Springs North Carolina combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleighs thriving tech scene making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare electronics business innovation and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of giving our world more smiles. Visit: Description

What Youll Do:

Translates site strategy into an annual OpEx plan with a prioritized portfolio of projects linked to key performance indicators (safety quality delivery cost morale).
Facilitates value stream mapping and diagnostic assessments to identify waste constraints and improvement opportunities.
Builds charters define problem statements baselines targets scope and success criteria.
Leads cross-functional Lean Six Sigma projects from define through control; apply the appropriate toolkit (DMAIC PDCA Kaizen 5S SMED visual management standard work A3 mistake proofing SPC).
Quantifies financial and operational impact (cost savings/avoidance throughput cycle time OEE right first time) and partner with Finance to validate benefits.
Establishes control plans and handoffs to ensure sustainability audit adherence to standard work and control metrics.
Implements daily management systems tiered visual performance boards and leader standard work.
Facilitates root cause analysis (5 Whys fishbone fault tree) and corrective/preventive action closure for chronic issues.
Develops and maintains dashboards; track and report project performance benefits realization and KPI trends to leadership.
Designs and delivers Lean Six Sigma training (awareness to Green Belt level) coach project teams and mentor Green Belts.
Builds problem-solving capability at all levels; model effective facilitation and change leadership behaviors.
Creates refines and deploys OpEx standards (playbooks templates standard work audit criteria).
Ensures improvement initiatives are aligned with quality system requirements validation needs data integrity and EHS standards.
Applies structured change management (stakeholder analysis communications readiness adoption metrics) to accelerate outcomes.
Fosters engagement and recognition for teams; promotes a learning culture through retrospectives yokoten (best-practice sharing) and communities of practice.
Partners with leaders across Manufacturing Quality Supply Chain Engineering IT HR and Finance to remove barriers and deliver results.
Prepares and presents concise updates and business cases to site and functional leadership
Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelors degree in science business or a related field with 8 years of applicable industry experience such as Operational Excellence Project Management Continuous Improvement within manufacturing supply chain quality or engineering environments OR
Masters degree Science Business or a related field 6 years of applicable industry experience such as Operational Excellence Project Management Continuous Improvement within manufacturing supply chain quality or engineering environments
Experience and demonstrated track record leading cross-functional Lean Six Sigma projects to completion with sustained results Advanced Experience in Lean Six Sigma knowledge; proven application of DMAIC/PDCA value stream mapping kaizen events 5S SMED visual management standard work SPC and mistake proofing in regulated operations.
Experience leading and facilitating group process and collaboration

Preferred Requirements:

Prior experience working with Pharma or Bio-tech industry
Experience standing up daily management systems and/or OpEx deployment models at the site or value stream level.
Strong influencing collaboration oral and written communications skills

Physical and Work Environment Requirements:

Will work in environment which may necessitate respiratory protection.
May work in Mechanical/Production spaces that may require hearing protection and enrollment in a hearing conservation program.
Ability to discern audible cues.
Ability to stand for prolonged periods of time up to 60 minutes.
Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time up to 240 minutes.
Ability to conduct activities using repetitive motions that include wrists hands and/or fingers.
Ability to conduct work that includes moving objects up to 10 pounds.

To all agencies: Please no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at FUJIFILM via-email the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

EEO Information

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Position OverviewThe Sr. Operational Excellence (OpEx) Specialist is an experienced hands-on individual contributor responsible for designing leading and sustaining continuous improvement initiatives that improve safety quality delivery cost and employee engagement across the site and/or network. Le...