Senior Process Improvement Engineer

Senior Process Improvement Engineer

Sentara Health has an exciting new opportunity to join our team as a Senior Process Improvement Engineer! This role is hybrid, requiring the ability to work onsite a couple of days a week or as needed.

Job Description

• Make significant changes in clinical, operational, or transformational processes with a strategic or operational focus.
• Support senior leaders by identifying opportunities for improvement, organizing resources, selecting and implementing the appropriate improvement methodology, and ensuring projects are conducted successfully.
• Manage multiple projects for multiple leaders simultaneously and prioritize to meet tight timelines.
• Responsible for all aspects of the change process, including financial, operational, and human resource perspectives, to facilitate radical changes in technology, processes, and people.
• Help the organization maintain cost discipline/reduce costs, with secondary goals of helping operational leaders solve problems and/or design processes that are efficient and effective and improve costs, quality, safety, or revenue.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Engineering, Nursing, or related field required.
• 5 years of Process Improvement/Healthcare management experience required, or 10 years of experience in lieu of a Master's degree.
• Six Sigma Black Belt certification or 8 years of Process Improvement experience required.
• Must understand the operational, financial, and human resource implications of large-scale change efforts. Previous successful experience with large-scale change efforts required.

Skills

• Active Listening
• Communication
• Complex Problem Solving
• Judgment and Decision Making
• Persuasion
• Project Management
• Speaking
• Systems Analysis
• Systems Evaluation
• Time Management
• Writing

Benefits

As the third-largest employer in Virginia, Sentara Health offers a variety of amenities to our employees, including but not limited to:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid annual leave and sick leave
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement funds with matching contributions
• Supplemental insurance policies, including legal, life insurance, and AD&D among others
• Work perks program including discounted movie and theme park tickets among other great deals
• Opportunities for further advancement within our organization

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