To be serious, does anyone here have this certification? I'm in grad school right now and I have an opportunity to do a day training for this certification for the great price of nothing. I'm just wondering if anyone has this certification and has it been useful in terms of jobseeking.
Is this similar to 5S? I just got recently certified for that. One of our VP's is a big advocate of Lean Six Sigma and 5S Training. If you applied where I work and had those two certificates on your resume, you would be at the top of the list
Well my grad school and ACHE are teaming together to get this training done at the school so I don't think it's completely nonsense. Thanks. I'm working on my Masters in Healthcare Admin and one of my friends told me that it's one of the more sought after certifications in the job market right now. I just wanted to see if anyone on here has had any experience with it.
I am a Six-Sigma Greenbelt. I got it as part of a project during Grad School, with a major industrial equipment manufacturer. It has served me no real purpose to this point, but they do send you an actual green (or whatever color) Karate belt. The Green-Belt certification is really nothing significant, but Black-Belt is a relatively valuable thing to have, IMO. It is a nice certificate on the wall, and something to add to your resume. I'm not too familiar with Lean, but I imagine the lower levels are very similar.
Six Sigma is very important if you're planning on working for a large company. If you become a black belt in Six Sigma, the sky is the limit as far as pay goes. Companies are looking for this type of training. So I would take any training you can get. Personally I can't stand our Six Sigma team and I think they are a wasted resource in companies. But I also see why we have them.
Lean is another way of saying, "let's see where we can cut cost". Basically you run models that show where you can cut jobs but still run at a high level. For an example, I work for the biggest laboratory company in the world. We had what we called Lean in the Lab. Our Six Sigma team worked with our lab director on running models to see how our lab is ran step-by-step. They take the data and see where most of the employee's time is spent. So with that said, our company started implementing automation machines in the lab. We installed several conveyor belts that goes around in the lab that carries the lab specimen from one place to another. There were other machines as well that were installed that help speed things up in the lab. We pretty much cut half of our head count in the lab due to this. Our lab is running at a very high level but IMO we depend too much on these automation machines.
On a previous job in a small chemical plant, we did a lean project, and the lean certified engineer found that we were spending too much time looking for parts, so we cleaned up and organized the warehouse. He had really neat models that showed us how much money it was going to save us, but I don't really think you need a certification to tell you to do that. If only he could have come up with a program to keep the maintenance guys from leaving tools on every piece of equipment that they worked on.
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i'm LSS green belt certified. if you have the chance to take the course for free then you should definitely do it. it will look good on your resume and help you stand out. even better if you can get black belt...its much more in demand.
Thanks for the advice! How long did it take you to get to green belt and how long would it take to get a black belt. I don't want to go up against the Cobra Kais...
