Director Medical - Morristown, NJ, United States - Covanta Energy

Description

For more than 40 years, Covanta has been at the forefront of sustainable materials management, providing companies and communities world-class waste and resource solutions.

Through our diverse and scalable full-service capabilities, we're leading the charge to a carbon-negative future-reducing, reusing, recycling and reimagining waste for the benefit of both people and planet.

Our differentiator comes from our vast ecosystem of technology, facilities, and partnerships, trusted by the world's largest organizations to solve their most pressing environmental challenges, and achieve their most ambitious environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.

Diversity, inclusivity, engagement-these are the values that help us foster a strong sense of community within Covanta.

The Operational Excellence Leader is accountable to drive process standardization by partnering with the Covanta Field Services (CFS) and the regional outage maintenance team/SMEs (Regional Maint.

The person will be responsible in driving the process rigor, managing, and updating the SOPs, working with IT in setting up business bowlers and dashboards.

In this role, person will drive operational productivity initiatives and process excellence related to outages and will be accountable for cost KPIs for the Business Line, and for business outcomes (e.g., performance against Safety, Quality, On Time Delivery, and Cost Targets).

Accountable to develop and implement processes to better understand cost drivers and prioritize improvement projects.
Partner with the regional outage excellence SMEs on continuous process & systems improvements. These projects will be evaluated and prioritized based on business impact.
Partner with the outage maintenance team to setup a robust cost target setting and cost tracking system.

This also includes collecting data to measure outage cost, the accurate bucketization of cost (OPEX/CAPEX/Non-Outage) and establishing cost standards (Outage Cost Catalog).

Collaborate with the Sourcing, Outage Engineering, and other functions (PMO) to improve and meet cost targets.

~ Work with different value stream owners project leaders to understand the overall financial and operational impact of proposed changes to outage scope, and schedule. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple programs.
Strong background in Field Services transformation, especially working experience with the outage team would be a distinct advantage.
BB/MBB certification and/or a proven education or work history in statistical analysis of complex data and measurement systems.
Proven ability to work efficiently with minimal direct supervision. Highly motivated and focused on meeting business commitments, driving change & implementing process improvements.
Strong interpersonal and team building skills.

Covanta is an Equal Opportunity Employer, has developed an Affirmative Action Program (AAP), and will not discriminate against any qualified applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability (including perceived disability, physical, mental, and/or intellectual disabilities), veteran status, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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