Job description

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Position Summary:

Bio-Techne is seeking a Lean Leader for our Minneapolis, MN site. The person within this role will be responsible for leading efforts that are focused on service delivery advancements and process improvements. Success in this role requires the use of a variety of skills to identify, analyze and implement opportunities for improvement within our labs for protein/antibody purification, cell culture, complete production cycle from planning & production to shipping, as well as immunoassay reagent preparation and Cell & Gene Therapy products. Bio-Techne is a highly complex manufacturing site, this individual will be engaging and leading Process Engineering, Research & Development and Quality Control teams, Kaizens, and Value Stream current / future state processes with Operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop improvement effort timelines, key milestones and resource needs.
• Utilize change management techniques to ensure the improvements are sustained.
• Create an environment of continuous learning by conducting lessons-learned events that identify root cause of performance failure and assist team in long-term corrective actions.
• Responsible for implementing improvement actions and measuring the results. Focus improvements on improved organizational productivity/operating efficiency and service delivery to our customer base.
• Identify or conceptualize process/system improvement.
• Manage process improvement implementation, escalations, cost and scope.
• Champion Kaizen events document via VSM (Value Stream Mappings) existing processes, identify fail points and develop solutions.
• Lead in identifying improvement initiatives to achieve organizational targets related to variability reduction, lead time reduction and waste elimination.
• Provide coaching support to organization’s managers to support their improvement efforts.
• Calculate financial cost & benefits; validate results with process owners.

Education and Experience:

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in related engineering, business, or related technical discipline field or equivalent experience in a related field and 5-8 years of relevant experience; or a Master’s degree or MBA preferred
• Experience with Minitab statistical software is desired.
• Certified as a Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt.
• Project management experience preferred
• Experience in biotechnology/biopharma manufacturing environment

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Lead teams of cross-functional business partners to effectively determine the scope of improvement effort and business impact.
• Ability to manage projects and work independently across one or more active improvements.
• Enthusiastic, energetic, and highly driven, with the desire to learn our business.
• Build consensus and support for chosen solution(s).
• Must be skilled in the use of Microsoft office products, specifically MS Project and Visio.
• Strong Operations background in a complex, fast pace, high throughput environment consisting of scientific manufacturing labs, bottling and kitting operations.
• Have highly developed facilitation and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to analyze complex data to draw supportable conclusions and recommendations.
• Effectively engage teams in the value of Lean, VSMs and continuous process improvement.
• Ability to successfully interface with all levels and areas of the organization by establishing close working relationships with key areas of the interface.

• Ability to quantify the impact to process metrics and financials.
• Live our company values of EPIC.

Why Join Bio-Techne

• We offer competitive salaries along with extensive medical, vision, and dental plans for you and your family starting on day one!
• We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k matching and an employee stock purchase plan.
• We help our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, internship programs, and more.
• We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.
• We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.

Where permitted by applicable law, candidate must have received or be willing to receive an FDA authorized COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for this position.

Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Minneapolis, MN 55413: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: One location

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