What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Improvement Specialist position at Pace®?
Job Overview
Key Responsibilities:
Required Skills and Qualifications:
Benefits:
Pace makes the world a safer, healthier place. We partner with clients to provide the service, science, and laboratory data needed to make critical decisions that benefit us all.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the development of lean initiatives at various locations and ensure specific objectives and results are achieved.
- Plan for and lead various lean events with cross-functional teams through report-out and follow-up.
- Document all lean initiative results and assist process owner in developing standard work processes and resolving open items.
- Lead process mapping, value stream mapping, and identifying inefficiencies in productivity with a focus on layouts and sequencing.
- Lead periodic lean health checks and audits.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Principles and practices of lean business practices such as continuous improvement, total quality management, and just-in-time inventory systems.
- Change Management principles and practice.
- Administrative principles and practices, including goal setting, program development, implementation, and evaluation, and the management of employees.
- Principles and practices of developing teams, motivating employees, and managing in a team environment.
Benefits:
- 80 hours of paid vacation per year.
- 7 paid holidays per year.
- 2 floating holidays per year (prorated based on start date).
- 40 hours paid sick time per year.
- Payroll deductions for medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.
