Continuous Improvement Specialist

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Deploy and lead a common approach for continuous improvement for a local ABB organizational unit, including promoting a culture of continuous learning and improving. Mentor and coach teams to achieve operational excellence and drive improved results. Lead projects to improve and sustain local business performance.

This position reports to

Continuous Improvement Specialist

Your responsibilities

• Executing continuous improvement and strategy deployment and working with other CI leaders to standardize processes and develop best practices.
• Working in cross-functional teams to execute the strategy and escalate as necessary to remove roadblocks.
• Identifying key team members in each function to support projects within the location and encourage key individuals to develop their skills.
• Mentoring and coaching continuous improvement candidates and developing a pipeline of team members able to drive business results.
• Understanding the organization’s vision, objectives and needs, and suggesting projects, actions, and tools to achieve them.
• Providing organization-wide visibility of the current portfolio of continuous improvement efforts, and tracking progress and value from these efforts.
• Providing training and coaching to people and teams so that they are better equipped to drive their improvement efforts for themselves and driving standardization and consistency.
• Driving transformational projects with a hands-on (“gemba”) and problem-solving approach.

Your background

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related.
• 2-3 years of experience in similar position.
• Experience in 5´s and Lean Manufacturing.
• Knowledge of Six Sigma - Green Belt and Kanban.
• Intermediate – Advanced level of English.

More about us

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