Continuous Improvement Leader (Danaher Business System) Job Description Summary

Optimizes organizational performance by enhancing the alignment and efficiency of business processes and ensuring continuous, sustained improvement across the enterprise through implementing Danaher Business System tools and methodologies. This includes focus areas like innovation, growth, and lean. Includes DBS trainers.

Job Description

Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-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 solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across various applications to advance health, safety, and environmentally responsible technologies. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place where you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world. 

Pall is one of 10 Life Sciences companies of Danaher. Together, we accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of solutions safeguarding and improving human health.

Learn about the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible.

Would you like to apply your expertise in continuous improvement to spearhead the continuous improvement strategy at our Putnam, CT manufacturing plant? Join us in making a positive impact!

As the Continuous Improvement Leader, also recognized as the Danaher Business System Leader, you play a pivotal role in driving continuous improvement. Your dedication to successfully implementing the Danaher Business System empowers positive change. Collaborating closely with the Plant Manager, you champion the implementation of DBS Fundamentals and Lean methodologies at Gemba, generating advancements in safety, quality, delivery, and cost. Your impactful leadership fuels progress and fosters an environment of excellence.

This position is integral to the Global Operations team and will be located ON-SITE in Putnam, CT.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

Responsible for developing the site’s DBS Strategy and Vision as a change facilitator. Collaborate with other site DBSLs and operation leadership to transform and support a continuous improvement culture, driving positive organizational change.Facilitate and conduct kaizens, problem-solving, and boot camps in DBS Fundamentals and DBS Lean tools. By managing the kaizen funnel tool and certified practitioner funnel to strengthen connections between customer-facing metrics and continuous process improvement efforts.Influence all levels of the organization, including Senior Leaders, Functional Leaders, project Managers, and practitioners, using effective coaching and mentoring skills to foster a supportive environment for growth and improvement.Grow the DBS muscle by establishing a team of certified practitioners in DBS and driving Lean Conversion across the operations with our organizational partners.

The essential requirements of the job include:

Bachelor of Science Degree in Science or Engineering related subject areas and over 10 years of business/operations management or manufacturing experience, including mastery of an array of Lean Tools and DBS Fundamentals for over 5 years, I am confident in my ability to drive success.Hands-on Gemba experience driving kaizen facilitation and leadership using DBS and lean tools. (Visual Daily Management, Problem Solving Process, Value Stream Mapping, Dynamic Kanban, Lean Conversion, Standard Work, 5S, TPM, SMED, etc.)Strong analytical skills, MS Excel proficiency, SAP knowledge, interpersonal, managerial, and facilitation skills, including public speaking and moderating.

Pall Corporation, a Danaher company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at danaherbenefitsinfo.com.

The salary range for this role is $90,000.00-$110,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

Besides salary, this job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

At Danaher we bring together science, technology and operational capabilities to accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. Our global teams are pioneering what’s next across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology and beyond. For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

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We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at applyassistance@danaher.com to request accommodation.