Johnson Matthey

Opportunities to support PGMS Accelerate Programme delivering change

We are looking for skilled people who have a passion and enthusiasm to deliver improvement activities. Previous experience of working in CI is not essential as we will provide training in the way of working as the process is well defined through the 5IL gates and what is required at each stage. The focus is on active engagement with the operations and determination to deliver and ability to problem solve through support and coaching.

The Accelerate Initiative Owner will be responsible for the delivery of small to medium scale improvements in departments that have been identified by the teams as part of the PGMS Accelerate Programme and have a defined value. These initiatives have been designed to have a significant effect on safety, efficiency, cost and morale. The focus is to help the ideas generated in operational teams become reality through dedicated focus and support through the defined steps of the Accelerate programme.

The role comes with the following expectations:

• Working within the site Accelerate team and through leadership support facilitate, and project manage Accelerate initiatives in operational areas
• Deliver coaching to operational teams on where opportunities for improvement can be identified and how to go about implementing
• Lead improvement projects focusing on improving product yields, reducing customer complaints, increasing revenues and reducing lead times or cutting waste and cost
• Follow the defined Accelerate process to deliver projects that meet targeted savings
• Help operational teams to create and review project scope documents
• Ensure any required standards for process (written and visual documents) are completed to the defined business standards
• Ensure that Continuous Improvement projects are sustainable over the long term through the creation, training and evaluation of the process
• Coordinate the delivery of projects through effective delegation and allocation of resource
• Analyse production data to identify opportunity within the organisation
• Deliver waste elimination activities that generate validated financial savings that meet business targets

Skills we are looking for:

Experience or education in IT systems commonly used in Operations and Management environments would be advantageous

Experience of deploying improvement projects and managing the process through to completion (all involvement in such projects)

Experience in building strategic working relationships, and working across departmental boundaries and gaining engagement of those involved

Ability to communicate effectively and allow people to see all opportunities available to them and their department

Planning and organisation skills and a willingness to meet deadlines or escalate concerns

These Fixed Term roles are available at both of our US sites, West Deptford NJ and West Whiteland PA. These roles are focused on either operations delivery work, maintenance / engineering activities, and planning and scheduling activities.

Based on our experience these roles are suitable to a wide range of people who will current be doing a variety of roles. We have people working as initiative owners from the following areas:

• Process Tech
• Lab Analysts
• Production team leaders
• Maintenance techs
• Supply chain planners
• CI team members
• Logistics Leaders
• Project Managers / team members
• Quality Assurance / Control

The key qualities we are looking for are enthusiasm, problem solving skills and willingness to drive change and deliver improvement.

Pay Range $90,250-$110,000

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