Senior Continuous Improvement Specialist - Novanta

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.

This position is part of Novanta’s ATI Industrial Automation business unit. ATI is the world’s leading developer of robotic end of arm technologies. ATI end-effectors enhance productivity and flexibility of robotic and automated solutions across a wide spectrum of industries through capabilities such as automatic tool changing, force-torque sensing, material removal, and more. Since 1989, their commitment to engineering excellence, superior quality, and customer-focused support drives them to innovate and continuously improve the most reliable automated solutions available.

Summary

As a Senior Continuous Improvement Specialist, you will ensure our company's continuous success. You will identify improvement areas, optimize processes, and drive change across the organization.

Primary Responsibilities

• Facilitating cross-functional teams to identify and solve complex business problems through process improvement.
• Assisting in communicating change management plans and risk to all affected stakeholders or teams
• Providing training and support to team members on continuous improvement methodologies.
• Leading the implementation of the Novanta Growth System (NGS) at site level
• Conducting continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and quality.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Knowledge   Possess significant experience applying continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma
• Skill Be able to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Skill Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Skill Be able to lead cross-functional teams and drive change across the organization.

Competencies

• Creates Strategic Agility - Critical Thinking: Synthesizes data into crisp and sound strategic insights and conclusions. Strategic Thinking: Takes a global and long-term perspective when making business decisions. Learning Agility: Able to navigate ambiguity and complexity in order to adapt quickly. Intellectual Curiosity: Possesses a desire to learn new things and seeks out knowledge.
• Comfort Around Higher Management - Can deal comfortably with senior managers; can present to more senior managers without undue tension and nervousness; understands how senior managers think and work; can determine the best way to get things done with them by talking their language and responding to their needs; can craft approaches likely to be seen as appropriate and positive.
• Motivating Others - Creates a climate in which people want to do their best; can motivate many kinds of direct reports and team or project members; can assess each person’s hot button and use it to get the best out of him/her; pushes tasks and decisions down; empowers others; invites input from each person and shares ownership and visibility; makes each individual feel his/her work is important; is someone people like working with for and with.
• Embraces the Novanta Growth System - Continuous Improvement Mindset: Actively seeks opportunities to improve upon the current state. Novanta Growth System: Implements and leverages process and best practices to improve performance. Champions Growth: Enthusiastically develops and embraces best practices in order to drive continuous growth for self and others. Stretch Goals: Takes calculated risks, balancing stretch and strain, to test the limits of what is possible.
   

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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