Also called: Six Sigma Black Belt, Operational Excellence Manager
Finds waste and delays in how work gets done and leads teams to fix them, using methods like Lean and Six Sigma.
You stand in a hospital lab with a stopwatch timing how long blood samples sit waiting, then map every step on a whiteboard. A month later you show leaders that a simple layout change cut wait times in half.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's degree plus Six Sigma Black Belt certification; many are engineers.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management.
Growing faster than average. Used in almost every industry; steady demand.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI process-mining tools find bottlenecks from data; getting teams to change how they work stays human.
Classes: AP Statistics, Business elective, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-1111.
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