Continuous Improvement Specialist

Continuous Improvement Specialist

Position Summary:

Catalent, Inc. is a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) whose mission is to develop, manufacture, and supply products that help people live better and healthier lives. Catalent is dedicated to delivering unparalleled service to pharma, biotech, and consumer health customers, supporting product development, launch, and full life-cycle supply. With time-tested experience in development sciences, delivery technologies, and multi-modality manufacturing, Catalent supports the acceleration of development programs and the launch of more than a hundred new products every year. Powered by thousands of scientists and technicians and the latest technology platforms at more than 40 global sites, Catalent supplies billions of doses of life-enhancing and life-saving treatments for patients annually.

This 206,878 square-foot facility, located in the Philadelphia area is Catalent’s global Center of Excellence for Clinical Supply Packaging.  Catalent offers GMP secondary packaging and clinical labeling services throughout our global network. Packaging can be configured to hold a single product, or multiple products as determined by study requirements. We offer manual patient kit assembly along with semi-automated and automated wallet sealing and high-speed automated carding to meet the needs of studies of all sizes. For temperature sensitive products and those with minimal to zero allowable time out of environment, we can perform secondary packaging in refrigerated and frozen packaging rooms or over dry ice depending upon your project needs.  Using our Clinicopia global labeling system with its multi-lingual label phrase library we can design single panel, booklet labels or our unique Peel-ID™ safe storage labels for your studies. Single panel and Peel-ID™ safe storage labels can be conveniently reviewed and approved online via our Fusion portal before being printed and inspected at our facilities.

Catalent Pharma Solutions in Philadelphia is hiring a Continuous Improvement Specialist. The Continuous Improvement Specialist is responsible for helping drive continuous improvement (CI) efforts at the Philadelphia site with the objective to drive positive transformational change and realize financial benefits. The incumbent in this role will directly support the multiple cross-functional teams and guide site-wide efforts to drive improvement to operational effectiveness.  This role will be actively involved in the CI support of all site business processes.

This is a full-time, salaried role.   This is onsite. 

Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer, and Catalent employee. 

The Role:

• Lead and implement Lean practices: 5S, Kanban, visual boards, performance metrics, 8 waste reduction, process optimization, time-motion studies, work area layout
• Lead and facilitate the development and daily use of tiered meeting structures, visual boards, performance metrics and business reviews
• Support the annual site Hoshin-strategic planning development, execution and management processes
• Collaborate with site department subject matter experts and Head of CI to identify and drive crucial efforts leading to sustainable improvement for the site for the medium to long-term strategy
• Prioritize and select projects that leverage LEAN six sigma tools to drive improvements through the hierarchy of Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost
• Engage teams to help establish a Continuous Improvement culture to solve problems and develop solutions which address true root cause(s); transfer problem-solving and process improvement knowledge and competencies through all working relationships
• Coach and mentor LEAN Six Sigma Project Leaders to complete projects by using the DMAIC methodology
• All other duties as assigned

The Candidate:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Science or related field is required; Industrial Engineering background preferred
• Minimum of one+ years of experience leading, creating and implementing Continuous Improvement programs is required
• Minimum of one+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience is preferred
• Must have experience with advanced problem–solving (LEAN six sigma) and change-management methodologies consistent with establishing a culture of continuous improvement
• Yellow Belt or LEAN Certification desired but not mandatory
• Results oriented problem solver with a strong analytical mindset
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Tools: Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and statistical analysis software (e.g. Minitab, JMP, etc.)
• Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift 0-15 pounds

Why You Should Join Catalent:

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process 
• Diverse, inclusive culture 
• Positive working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovative
• Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives 
• 152 Hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays
• Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I
• Dynamic, fast-paced work environment
• Community engagement and green initiatives 
• Generous 401K match 
• Company match on donations to organizations
• Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment 
• Tuition Reimbursement – Let us help you finish your degree or start a new degree!
• WellHub program to promote overall physical wellness 
• Perkspot - offers exclusive or private discounts from approximately 900+ merchants in a wide array of categories

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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