Lean Project Manager
- Full-time
Company Description
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.
Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.
Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Demonstrates and promotes the company vision
- Regular attendance and punctuality
- Applies GMP/GLP in all areas of responsibility, as appropriate
- Foster morale and teamwork
- Maintains understanding of business unit processes and business unit trends.
- Drive related strategic initiatives that contribute to a more data and process driven culture.
- Identifies system or procedural improvement opportunities and participates in their implementation.
- Conceives, designs, and manages specific LEAN projects to an efficient and timely completion.
- Is able to work effectively in a matrix reporting structure.
- Works independently to support the leadership staff, while also:
- Providing reports and analysis of department metrics and management information
- Assuring procedures are documented
- Developing and/or improving standard functional process/procedures
- Interfaces with key clients to establish mutually important performance measures.
- Troubleshoot problems and provide input to staffing requirements and staff issues.
- Drives process improvement initiatives.
- Trains, mentors, and coaches others with data analysis and use of statistical tools and process excellence techniques.
- Enhances project management skills and techniques; is able to manage multiple priorities effectively and meet commitments in an accurate and timely manner
- Develops and communicates business cases to support recommendations for change and develops controls to monitor the progress associated with implementation of the recommended changes.
- Contributes towards a cohesive team environment.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Conducts all activities in a safe and efficient manner
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
· 8+ years of related experience
· Knowledge of regulatory agency guidelines is preferred.
· Proven organization, observation, and problem solving skills.
· Demonstrated knowledge and proficiency with computers and software applications
· Enhanced experience with LIMS (preferred)
· Effective interpersonal skills
· Excellent communication skills
· Ability to effectively communicate with multiple levels of the organization
· Demonstrate attention to detail; consistent accuracy
· Participate in implementing improvements in procedures
· Ability to report and present information
· Highly focused on People/Process/Client philosophy and orientation
· Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship
Ability to learn new tasks
Ability to think critically and solve problems quickly and efficiently
Additional Information
We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!
Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/
Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.
In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.
In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.