Senior Operational Excellence Engineer (m/f/d)

Company Description

LGC Diagnostics & Genomics delivers customer‑focused scientific excellence, providing critical tools and solutions that enable confidence in data, decisions, and outcomes across the life sciences. With more than 1,500 employees, 11 production sites worldwide, and a growing portfolio of over 17,000 products, the organization is a trusted partner to laboratories, developers, and researchers spanning clinical diagnostics, genomics, therapeutics, and agriculture. United by the mission Science for a Safer World, LGC Diagnostics & Genomics is committed to advancing innovation while upholding the highest standards of quality, reliability, and performance.

LGC Diagnostics & Genomics enables customers to move from data to decision with confidence—advancing diagnostics, therapeutics, and agricultural innovation worldwide while delivering measurable impact in service of a safer, healthier future.

Job Description

Senior Operational Excellence Engineer (m/f/d) - Berlin | Full-time | Hybrid

Make processes smarter. Help science move faster.

As our Senior Operational Excellence Engineer (m/f/d) in Berlin, you’ll use your engineering and continuous improvement expertise to make our processes more efficient, scalable and reliable, while supporting our mission: Science for a Safer World.

What you’ll do

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean/TPS, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Visual Management and TPM
• Analyse workflows and identify opportunities to improve quality, efficiency and throughput
• Develop process maps, value stream maps and standardised work
• Coach teams in Lean and continuous improvement methodologies
• Improve and scale manufacturing processes for products including reagents, cells and enzymes
• Support the specification, procurement and qualification of equipment
• Establish and optimise BOMs, routings, process standards and costing inputs
• Support new product development to ensure efficient and repeatable manufacturing
• Contribute to equipment, facility and operational improvement projects

Qualifications

What you’ll bring:

• A degree in Industrial, Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering, or a comparable technical field
• Significant experience in Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Proces Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering
• Fluency in German and English
• Strong practical knowledge of Lean, TPS, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints and/or TPM
• Experience with product costing, BOMs, routings and time studies
• Knowledge of risk and change management
• A collaborative approach and the confidence to drive change across different teams

Additional Information

ABOUT LGC:

LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Its high-quality product portfolio is comprised of mission-critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications, which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers’ products and workflows and are valued for their performance, quality, and range. 

OUR VALUES

• PASSION
• CURIOSITY 
• INTEGRITY
• BRILLIANCE
• RESPECT

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES 

LGC strongly believes that every job applicant and employee should be valued for their individual talents regardless of age, disability, race, color, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief. Short listing, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender, sexual orientation, marital status, color, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age, or trade union membership.

For more information about LGC, please visit our website www.lgcgroup.com

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