Location: Patterson,CA, USA
Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand - with heart at its center - our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. CVS is seeking an Operational Excellence leader for our Patterson, CA location. This role is a key member of the team to lead and drive projects and culture to improve safety, quality, delivery, and productivity of the operations. In this role, you will be responsible for continuous improvement initiatives to drive gains in the key KPIs at the facility. Some specific responsibilities will be maintaining labor management systems (LMS), lean implementation, and process design/improvement. You will be the glue between operations, network optimization, and automation to drive a clear vision together to improve the value stream. Please note: **1st shift position with additional flexibility to cover 2nd shift when needed.** **Role will be expected to travel up to 10% to other DCs** •Safety, Quality & Delivery: This role will be responsible for delivering capacity improvements to the operations by identifying and executing kaizens to remove bottlenecks, increase storage density, and ultimately meet customer demand. Responsible for identifying and improving safety at the site through use of technology, layout, improved ergonomics, and process. Responsible for helping to deliver world class quality by supporting sites with problem solving techniques for root cause analysis. •Process Engineering: Applies engineering methodologies/tools such as product slotting, studying labor standards (time studies and MOST analysis), layouts and optimization of flow, and resource modeling to improve processes and drive waste reduction for distribution and inventory control operations. Help lead and contribute to site strategy and execution of process improvement initiatives with a primary focus on picking operations, replenishment setup to minimize travel, and JIT inventory replenishment to drive higher throughput. •Lean: This role will be the site expert in lean manufacturing and will support the team to meet business objectives. Manages and completes high impact CI projects across the operation that lead to improved business results. Assesses CI initiatives and provides input and recommendations on future activities. Demonstrate a high level of competency in wide range of lean tools. Coaches employees in the use and implementation of CI & Lean principles. Support facilitation and execution Kaizen Events through all stages (A3 charter ideation/creation, pre-work identification and completion, delivery of results in Kaizen week, regular follow up and follow through on sustainment). Improving effectiveness of tier meetings, establishing/improving standard work, value stream mapping, creating a shared vision, implementing poke-yoke, and coaching process owners on how to use lean methods to achieve operational excellence. •Data Engineering: Contribute or lead changes and projects related to data engineering adding data collection where not present. Translate and simplify data to aid in decision making and problem solving including, but not limited to, improved traceability, performance dashboards, performance reports, or Andon/escalation systems at the site. Will strongly use data to support and drive process and performance management decisions with the operations team. Responsible for maintaining standards to drive informed decision making. •Project & Change Management: The individual will be responsible for planning and executing multiple projects at the same time and utilize good project management skills by managing risk and understanding critical path and dependencies to meet project goals on time. Possess a healthy curiosity about processes to see opportunities for improvement and put together a financial business case and project plan to initiate the change. Support operations with successful change management strategies to implement and sustain changes. •Automation: Contribute to the requirements specification development of automation improvements to the facility with implementation of key process technologies including but not limited to AMR/AGV, sortation systems, and picking systems (PTL/PTV), packaging systems, and other poke-yoke controls. Required Qualifications