Continuous Improvement Leader

Find what drives you in a team with a more than 70-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation. As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers protect people. Our products serve a wide range of markets, so if your interests lie along the spectrum of Life Sciences to Industrial, you’ll find a rewarding role here. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world. Pall is proud to work alongside a community of nine fellow Danaher Life Sciences companies. Together, we’re pioneering the future of science and medicine, developing products that enable researchers in the fight to save lives.

**Do you want to be a part of a team that develops lifesaving equipment? Our site in Ilfracombe manufactures products used in vaccine and gene therapy productio**n.** We are looking for someone be responsible for leading the Kaizen process including the organization, running and sustaining of Kaizen events and Kaizen funnel.**

The role will include the further development of the Danaher Business System culture within the Ilfracombe site. A fundamental growth area will be the development of DBS talent and engagement within the continuous improvement in this area.

**What You Will Do**:

- Work with site Leadership Team to develop process improvement strategies based on business needs.
- Facilitate / participate in Kaizen events.
- Support, Action Plan creation and follow-up.
- Develop future certified DBS practitioners in DBS tools.
- Organisation and participation of Shin events.
- Lead transformational change and work on identifying the greatest Lean opportunities across the plant.
- Coordinate benchmarking and external analysis (Subject Matter Experts, Workshops, company visits, etc.).
- Identify and share best practices.
- Teach and coach others in DBS tools, i.e. problem solving and standardized work.
- Develop and lead teams to embrace a practice that promote best practice sharing across the plant and within the corporation.
- Develop and promote common DBS Language across by integrating continuous improvements utilized across Pall and Danaher.

**Who You Are**:

- Willingness to work on the shop floor and lead by example; ability to influence decision making with or without authority, facilitate groups with diverse perspectives, bring teams to agreement.
- Interpersonal skills that build productive relationships and influence others, both within the business and across organizations. Ability to interact with all levels of the business (senior leaders to working teams), exceptionally good listening skills, able to present complex or new ideas with clarity and simplicity
- Collaborate effectively with others in the spirit of common objective
- Degree in Engineering or Business.
- Experience in process improvements using lean manufacturing methodology/Lean manufacturing with a combination of project management and business process analysis.
- Will be required to undertake travel both in the UK and abroad.

When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful **Danaher Business System** tools and the stability of a tested organization.

At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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