Operational Excellence Engineer

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Date: Sep 30, 2025

Location: Molndal, SE, NA

Company: Dentsply Sirona, Inc

Requistion ID: 81324 
 

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

 

Bringing out the best in people

As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us. 

 

Dentsply Sirona has been at the forefront of innovations to improve dentistry for more than a century. We work tirelessly to deliver the industry-leading products and services you need to provide the best dental care for your patients – and we firmly believe our client’s success begins with our employee’s success.

 

We are driven by our passion for innovation and are committed to pushing ourselves forward. Do you have a background from a manufacturing environment working with process and product improvements or Operational Excellence?

 

We are looking for an Operations Excellence Manager to join our team in Molndal / Gothenburg. Join us on our journey pushing ourselves towards best in class.

 

What are we expecting from you?

You will drive continuous improvement activities by forming and leading teams to drive process improvements in safety, quality, cost, process reliability and throughput.  It is expected that Lean Tools such as Value Stream Mapping, Poke Yoke, SMED and 5S will be used to identify and eliminate process waste.  After improvement initiatives are implemented, you will work with relevant groups to establish metrics, and communication systems that can be used to sustain the gain in both highly involved in 5% annual gross reduction in COGS as well as product related initiatives.  You will need to be a charismatic leader with strong communication, diplomacy and people skills that enables him/her to drive continuous improvement, empower teams, and foster a culture of process optimization and customer focus.  Strong analytical skills are a must for this role. Furthermore, you are effective at organizing and leading Kaizen events across the site, often multiple teams at one time.

 

We see that you keep yourself updated on global information such as demand or technical updates.

 

Background / Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering or Technical specialty, or equivalent level of relevant experience is required.
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification preferred.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience from a manufacturing environment with a process and product improvement focus.  Or a strong background within Operations Leadership in a lean production environment in a high-volume production environment with a minimum of 2 years in a Continuous Improvement activities. An equivalent combination of education & experience will be considered
  • Excellent communication skills.  Experience presenting and selling concepts to senior management.
  • Proven experience with creating a collaborative atmosphere between different functional teams. Conflict resolution and teambuilding is extremely important in this role.
  • Excellent oral, written and presentation skills, leadership and project management in English and Swedish.
  • Experience in ISO/FDA Medical Device preferred.

 

We will evaluate application on a continuous basis so don´t hesitate to send us your CV.

 

 

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