Continuous Improvements Professional

This is a newly created opportunity for an experienced Continuous Improvements Professional to join our Bioprocessing Division and to oversee activities across manufacturing sites in the UK |Stonehouse, Royston, Havant| and Yauco |Puerto Rico|. You will be part of an international team of CI professionals, driving Lean Six Sigma initiatives and large-scale projects. You will be working closely with leadership teams from local sites, managers from different functions: supply chain, engineering, quality and others.

This role is based at one of our sites in the UK: Stonehouse, Royston or Havant.

What you will accomplish together with us:

• Working with the site leadership teams to develop and implement the continuous improvement strategy

• Identifying potential opportunities for continuous improvement activities

• Building a continuous improvement | Lean culture to drive change

• Driving CI initiatives and projects

• Providing training and mentoring schemes and expertise to different teams

• Providing regular reports and presenting progress to senior management as required

• Ensuring alignment of activities across different sites

What will convince us:

• Ideally educated to a degree level in bioengineering, mechanical/ electrical engineering or equivalent

• Strong previous experience in a similar role in a manufacturing/ engineering environment

• Expert knowledge of Lean Six Sigma methodology and large-scale Lean projects

• Project management skills

• Capable of training and mentoring others and leading project teams

• Strong communicator and influencer, able to deal with people at all levels

• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure

In order to commence working with us, the successful candidate will need the right to work in the UK.

What we offer:

Our ambition is to simplify progress in life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry to help translate scientific findings into new therapeutics faster and more efficiently. So that more people can obtain access to better medicine. Nearly 11,000 employees at more than 60 production and sales locations worldwide are committed to this vision. And together, we have grown strongly over the past years. Do you also want to contribute to our vision? Grow with us and benefit from working with a Global Player that has kept its familiar atmosphere:

Opportunity for international career development:a global network offering seminars and training sessions, expert and manager career paths

Open and highly collaborative culture: mutual support within teams and working as equals, team spirit and international collaboration

Work-life balance: Working from home at many sites

Intelligent working environment: working in smart buildings with the latest technology and equipment

Ambitious goals: Sartorius plans to double its sales revenue approximately every five years and expects to grow its global team to approximately 15,000 people in 2025.

We look forward to receiving your application.

www.sartorius.com/career

We look for employees who would like to grow with us and move the innovative life sciences sector forward. In the process, we focus on agile project work, mutual support within teams and working as equals. Sartorius thrives as a company with people who give their very best every day and who are eager to develop personally and professionally.

Further insights into our world of work can be found here.