Six Sigma Black Belt - Senior Architect

Six Sigma Black Belt - Senior Architect

As a Six Sigma expert with a strong DFSS background, you will be part of the Design Quality Engineering team, a group of highly talented and experienced engineers, scientists, and architects supporting Philips Business Units in developing safe, robust, and compliant medical products.

The DQE team has about 20 experts and is part of the Quality and Reliability department within the Innovation and Strategy organization.

As a DfSS architect, you are a Black Belt with a proven record of projects where you used Six Sigma methodology to develop high standard products. You can coach and mentor green belts and black belts and actively participate in managing the DfSS program across Philips, including training and training materials.

You are responsible for:

• Delivering Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt Training, both DFSS and DMAIC;
• Coaching Black Belt/Green Belt candidates to certification and the successful completion of their projects;
• Working with the Six Sigma team to update and maintain training materials;
• Actively participating in the Global Philips Six Sigma community and promoting Six Sigma in R&D and other relevant communities;
• Working on projects to maintain hands-on quality engineering experience and stay updated with the latest innovation developments (approximately 25% of the time).

Six Sigma DfSS is a critical innovation capability for Innovation professionals to successfully carry out Innovation initiatives at various stages of Innovations, e.g., Research & Development. Therefore, driving DfSS as capability development within the Innovation domain is part of the foundation for Innovation success. Besides creating "Robust Designs" via DFSS, we use DMAIC for Problem Solving. You will witness the impact and contribution of your own work when quality and meaningful innovations or Design improvements, using DfSS and DMAIC as its foundation.

Are you passionate about Six Sigma to enable superior and meaningful Innovation within Philips? Join our team!

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• Passionate about applying DfSS in the Innovation domain - Design for Quality;
• R&D background and mindset with knowledge of product and software development;
• Working experience in a Medical regulated environment is preferred;
• A certified Six Sigma Black Belt and willing to further develop towards Master Black Belt certification;
• A talented (natural) trainer, able to explain complex concepts in easy-to-understand terms and capture people's attention;
• Coaching skills, able to coach Black Belt/Green Belt candidates to certification and successful completion of their projects;
• Strong team player;
• Willing to travel up to 20 percent for training delivery and onsite support.

Primary location: Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

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