Process Improvement Engineer

Company: Sentara
Location: Virginia Beach
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

City/StateVirginia Beach, VAOverviewWork ShiftFirst (Days) (United States of America)Sentara Healthcare is hiring for a Process Improvement - Engineer in Centre Pointe!Make significant changes in clinical, operational or transformational processes with a strategic or operational focus. The Engineer will support senior leaders by identifying opportunities for improvement, organize resources, select and implement the appropriate improvement methodology and ensure projects are conducted successfully. Manages multiple projects for multiple leaders simultaneously and be able to prioritize to meet tight timelines. Responsible for all aspects of the change process to include financial, operational, and human resource perspectives and to facilitate radical changes in technology, processes and people. The primary goal is to 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.Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required
• 3 years in Accounting/Finance required
• 3 years in Healthcare Management required
• 3 years in Process Improvement required
• Six Sigma Black Belt Certification preferredSentara Healthcare is a Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina based not-for-profit integrated healthcare provider. Offering hundreds of sites of care including 12 hospitals and multiple services that supports an 858,000-member health plan.About the Company:The people of the communities that we serve have nominated Sentara "Employer of Choice" for over ten years. U.S. News and World Report has recognized Sentara as having the Best Hospitals for 15+ years. Sentara offers professional development and a continued employment philosophy!Sentara Healthcare prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.Per Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), some clinical environments require proof of education; these regulations are posted at ecfr.gov for further information. To expedite this verification requirement, we encourage you to upload your diploma or transcript at time of application.Sentara Benefits:Sentara employees strive to make our communities healthier places to live. We're setting the standard for medical excellence within a vibrant, creative, and highly productive workplace. For more information about our employee benefits, https://www.sentaracareers.com/explore-sentara/benefits/Join our team, where we are committed to quality healthcare, improving health every day, and provide the opportunity for training, development, growth!Job SummaryMake significant changes in clinical, operational or transformational processes with a strategic or operational focus. The Engineer will support senior leaders by identifying opportunities for improvement, organize resources, select and implement the appropriate improvement methodology and ensure projects are conducted successfully. Manages multiple projects for multiple leaders simultaneously and be able to prioritize to meet tight timelines. Responsible for all aspects of the change process to include financial, operational, and human resource perspectives and to facilitate radical changes in technology, processes and people. The primary goal is to 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.
  
  Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Engineering, Nursing or related field required and 3 years Process Improvement/Healthcare management experience required, or 10 years experience in lieu of a Master's degree. Must understand the operational, financial, and human resource implications of large-scale change efforts. Previous successful experience with large-scale change efforts required. Six Sigma Black Belt certification or 8 years of Process Improvement experience required.Qualifications:BLD - Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)Accounting/Finance, Healthcare Management, Process ImprovementSkillsActive Listening, Communication, Complex Problem Solving, Judgment and Decision Making, Persuasion, Project Management, Speaking, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Time Management, WritingSentara Healthcare prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.Per Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), some clinical environments require proof of education; these regulations are posted at ecfr.gov for further information. In an effort to expedite this verification requirement, we encourage you to upload your diploma or transcript at time of application.
  In support of our mission "to improve health every day," this is a tobacco-free environment.

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