Principal Operational Excellence Leader

**Principle OpEx Leader**

**BUSINESS UNIT: Respiratory Intervention**

**LOCATION: Mirandola**

**Careers that Change Lives**

As a member of the Site leadership team in the Mirandola facility representing Operational Excellence, you will have responsibility for the planning and execution of process improvement objectives across manufacturing site. You will help drive operations strategy for the Mirandola site and help form the future for this company. You will help set specific operational performance targets as well as the development and training of employees to create a sustainable culture of continuous improvement.

**A Day in the Life**
- Build and implement the roadmap for the sites to deploy the holistic operational excellence program
- Capture, govern and facilitate site programmatic savings projects
- Lead strategic activities and drive cultural strategies.
- Align with functional leaders to identify training needs and support implementation of training activities.
- Align with operations function leader and R&D to deconflict projects and determine support priorities for all project and the hopper
- Play key role as an OPEX Leader by contributing to the overall organizational goals and the OPEX strategy roadmap and execution
- Assess and provide governance of the scorecards that are quantitative and qualitative assessments of OPEX effectiveness at site
- Plan, perform and implement process improvement initiatives (such as Lean or Six Sigma)
- Develop metrics that provide data for process measurement, identifying indicators for future improvement opportunities
- Provide consultation on the use of re-engineering techniques to improve process performance and product quality
- May deliver presentations and training courses including measurement, analysis, improvement and control

**Must Have: Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelors degree required
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant OpEx, Operations, and/or Manufacturing experience with 5+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant OpEx, Operations, and/or Manufacturing experience with 5+ years of managerial experience

**Nice to Have**
- Prior Medical Device experience is critical
- Lean Six Sigma Certifications
- Strong background in holistic operational excellence structures (TPM, BPM, DBS, TPS, etc.) and the associated tools/techniques
- Strong background in mfg. operations leadership role
- Strategic minded while having the ability to focus on the critical actions
- Strong principle-centered approach that is able to be balanced on the organization need and starting point
- Able to build a strategic roadmap that will yield a journey map for deploying the programs and standardization that meets the business needs by prioritization and focused development
- Strong Portfolio Project Mgt skills
- Highly influential and able to sell ideas and approaches
- Strong interpersonal, presentation, and project management skills
- Solid coaching and mentoring competency
- Able to influence change without direct authority

**About Medtronic
**Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)