What are the responsibilities and job description for the Continuous Improvement Specialist - Warehousing Operations position at HITACHI ENERGY USA INC?
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General Information:
Hitachi Energy is seeking a Continuous Improvement Specialist in Mount Pleasant, PA . This role is responsible for driving sustainable and transformational change across warehouse operations, focused on process improvements, warehouse management, system maturity and demonstrated improvement in Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).
Your Responsibilities:
- 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
- Partners with the cross-functional team, participate in developing and operationalizing the Strategy Deployment process ensuring effective Leader Standard Work and a connected Lean daily management system with digital integration Apps.
- Facilitates development of breakthrough objectives, action plans, KPI's and leads in development of Kaizen events to support the overall needs of the organization.
- Change agent and champion of a continuous improvement culture focused on waste elimination across the organization using Lean methods, processes and tools, such as 5S, Daily Management, Leader Standard Work (LSW), Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Kaizen, etc.
- Lead and facilitate process improvement for the organization and partner with extended cross functional teams, at all levels of the organization, on overall use of lean tools to drive productivity. Develop Financial acumen to ensure priority actions are focused on driving the right improvements in the business, impacting the bottom line. Facilitate the development of Cost-out and productivity projects across the business to achieve targets. Facilitate and train team members in utilization of reporting of Improvement projects. Ensure effective sustainment of results and support problem solving (Root Cause Countermeasure) as needed to close gaps to targets.
- Help to Build continuous improvement capability through training and implementation of Lean tools and methods.
- Combine technical knowledge with people and organizational skills to deliver organizational maturity and KPI improvements.
Your Background :
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
- Experience in areas of Lean operating/management systems, continuous improvement, manufacturing, warehouse operations, engineering, and/or process improvement.
- A collaborative person, solutions-oriented approach, with strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to foster teamwork. Developing strategy and translating into actionable plans & driving sustainable change through influence. Experience in challenging conventional thinking, approach and methodology and driving improvements, and the ability to lead teams through influence without authority.
- Experience leading training sessions
- Certifications in Lean/ Six Sigma (Minimum L6S Green belt, Black belt is a plus)
- Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required
- Candidate must already have 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.
