Continuous Improvement Leader
Company: Hitachi Vantara Corporation
Location: Mount Pleasant
Posted on: May 22, 2023
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Job Description:
Description General information:
Hitachi energy is seeking an Continuous Improvement Leader for its
Mount Pleasant, SC location. This role is responsible for reporting
to the HVC Hub Product Group Manager, and responsible to establish
and maintain a continuous improvement (CI) culture in focusing on
Safety, Customer & Quality, Delivery, Inventory and Cost (S>
> Q> D> I> C) by deploying a set of CI competencies,
utilizing Lean Six Sigma (L6S) as the CI methodology, and creating
transparency to monitor progress, within the area of
responsibility.
Responsibilities:
Safety & Integrity: Living core values of safety and integrity,
which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring
for your colleagues, and the business. Continuous Improvement
Deployment: Deploying and executing the Hub/GPG strategy to
continuous improvement and strategy deployment via L6S.
Facilitating best practice sharing within your locations. Work
directly with key stakeholders in locations to achieve buy-in and
execute strategy. Subject Matter Expertise: Developing talented
individuals within your locations and provide access to internal
customers who require specific content knowledge and/or
capabilities relevant to business processes and their continuous
improvement program. Mentoring and coaching Business CI. Developing
critical mass on CI skills. Business Partnership: Understanding the
organization's vision, objectives, and improvement needs and
suggest projects and improvement actions that support objectives.
Working with leaders to identify and access the best resources
(internal or external) with which to work. Developing pipeline of
Improvement Projects (Kaizen) to drive business results.
Performance Transparency & Improvement: Providing organization-wide
visibility of the current portfolio of continuous improvement
efforts; track via metrics/KPIs progress and value from these
efforts in order to help decision makers allocate resources and
recognize success, with special focus on operational cost
reduction. Working effectively with other CI leaders from Hitachi
and Hitachi Energy Network to standardize processes and develop
best practices. Capability Building: Providing training, coaching
and facilitation support to individuals and teams so that they are
better equipped to drive their improvement efforts for themselves.
Support/Train in line with training and development structure for
respective locations and to make sure the knowledge is well
transferred within the CI community. Be liaison to the global BU IT
manager for Global BU standard applications, streamlining and
optimizing business processes focusing on reliability, security,
traceability, and productivity. Change Management: Driving cultural
transformation within the scope of responsibility, with a hands-on
('Gemba') approach. Understands and promotes behavioral change to
continuously improve function performance through programs and
initiatives. People leadership and Development: Ensuring that the
area of responsibility is organized, staffed, skilled and directed.
Guiding, motivating and develops direct/indirect subordinates
within HR policies. Developing the skills and competences to create
a highly effective and efficient team. Living Hitachi Energy's core
values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility
for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the
business.
Your background:
Minimum 5-10 years of experience from leading positions in an
operation and/or Production environment. Candidate must already
have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi
Energy in the United States. Working experience in an international
team and feel confident in managing change through a dotted line
organization. Profound knowledge of Lean principles and six sigma
is required as well as a bachelor in engineering. Must be solution
oriented to come up with creative solutions to challenges to
achieve project goals and deliverables. Position is based on site
at our Mt. Pleasant facility. Candidate must already have a work
authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in
the United States.Equal Opportunity Employer
(EOE)-Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with
Disabilities Protected veterans and qualified individuals with a
disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable
or limited in your ability to use or access Hitachi Energy career
site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable
accommodations by calling a Hitachi Energy HR Representative at
1-888-504-2007 or by sending an email to: us-pg-askhr@abb.com.
Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner.
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