Senior Principal OPEX Engineer

Description

Position Summary: This Senior Principal OPEX Engineer role focuses on leading operational excellence, driving performance improvements, and building enterprise-wide capabilities using continuous improvement methodologies. Key Highlights: 1. Lead operational excellence initiatives and process improvement 2. Advise and collaborate with internal customers and suppliers for improvements 3. Significantly impact the company's strategic objectives **What a Senior Principal OPEX Engineer Brings to Cardinal Health** Operational Excellence is responsible for identifying and executing performance improvement opportunities, enabling successful enterprise-wide transformations, applying contemporary process improvement techniques while developing people’s capabilities. The Business Performance Partner is responsible for advising internal or external customers and suppliers to assess current business performance, develop recommendations, and implement process improvements using modern continuous improvement tools. ***Essential Requirements*** * 8–12 years of operational excellence (OpEx) experience in the manufacturing sector * Bachelor’s degree in a related field * English proficiency: Advanced or fluent level * Strong statistical and analytical skills * Black Belt certification * Experience leading medium- to high-complexity operational improvement projects * Extensive experience and knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, and operational excellence methodologies **Preferences** * Experience in medical device manufacturing * Training and/or certification in Project Management (PM/PMI) * Understanding of warehouse and production operational practices **Specific Functions and Responsibilities** * Global Manufacturing Excellence Leaders are responsible for executing strategic operational excellence objectives within a business segment, unit, or function—including resource selection and development, ongoing project management, and continuous communication regarding progress toward objectives. * Activities include, but are not limited to, resource selection and development; identification, ownership, and tracking of projects directly supporting GPSC’s global manufacturing and corporate engineering global strategies. * Works with multiple cross-functional teams, enterprise professionals, and/or senior executives, and independently undertakes actions to synthesize findings, develop improvement recommendations, and lead initiatives. * Demonstrates significant experience applying world-class best practices and process improvement tools while delivering results for our business segment. * Evaluates current business performance against Cardinal Health’s Medical Segment business strategy for a specific site, operational function, or value stream improvement. * Gathers and interprets internal and external customer requirements for a single-segment or multi-segment process and establishes optimal process parameters. * Demonstrates experience holding annual accountability within broad operational excellence improvement efforts. * Understands and can evaluate financial methodologies alongside long-term cost reduction strategies. * Collaborates with suppliers on interorganizational improvement opportunities. * Responsible for executing the Medical Segment’s strategic objectives—identifying and resolving complex problems, and providing support and clear accountability to the Global Manufacturing Excellence team and stakeholders. * Conducts independent assessments of current business and/or functional performance within the enterprise using fact-based investigation techniques while maintaining performance improvement scoring and industry benchmarking. * Responsible for aligning with senior leadership and other key stakeholders to develop and implement performance improvement recommendations. * This position’s scope centers on Global Products and Supply Chain (GPSC), specifically supporting global manufacturing and corporate engineering organizations. * Global Manufacturing Excellence Leaders are responsible for executing strategic operational excellence objectives within a business segment, unit, or function—including resource selection and development, project management **What Is Expected of You and Others at This Level** * Applies advanced knowledge and solid understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects * Participates in developing policies and procedures to achieve specific objectives * Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models * Works on—or may lead—complex, large-scale projects * Projects may have significant and long-term impact * Provides solutions that may set precedent * Independently determines the approach to complete new projects * Receives guidance on overall project objectives * Acts as a mentor to colleagues with less experience ""*Candidates who are back\-to\-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.* *Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.*