Manufacturing Production Process Engineer

Mission statement:
To establish and maintain a continuous improvement (CI) culture in Hitachi Energy focusing on Customer & Quality 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; typically, Continuous Improvement projects in the local organization and/or Mastering multiple GB Projects.

Your responsibilities:                

• You will execute the local approach to continuous improvement and strategy deployment via L6S, facilitate best practice sharing within your location, work in cross functional teams to execute the strategy and escalate as necessary to remove roadblocks, through project and training, identify key team member in each function to support in execution of projects within the location.

• You will encourage key individuals to further develop skills in L6S and advocate for them if projects come up that need their skillset, mentor and coach Business CI candidates, develop pipeline of CI team members able to drive business results.

• You will understand the organization’s vision, objectives and improvement need and suggest projects, improvement actions and L6S tools to achieve objectives, work with leaders to identify and access the best resources (internal) with which to work.

• You will be a resource for our customers’ continuous improvement efforts and stay there until the work can be sustained by their own operation, facilitate coordination of resources (machines/people/functions) as necessary to achieve goals, customers are required to build up competency and resources to sustain solution, support deployment of organizational strategy through effective utilization of CI resources where needed, within the Functional area of expertise.

• You will provide 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, work effectively with other CI leaders to standardize process and develop best practices.

• You will provide training, coaching and facilitation support to individuals and teams so that they are better equipped to drive their improvement efforts for themselves, drive standardization and consistency within the L6S project and to make sure the knowledge is well transferred within the GB community. You will drive transformational projects, within the scope of responsibility, with a hands-on (´Gemba´) and problem-solving approach.

• 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:

• You hold bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.

• Experience on Microsoft office and tools.

• Ability to speak with and work together with the technical teams in different parts of the world.

• Demonstrated team building skills, would be a preference.

• Good communication skills in English Language in oral and written form.