Continuous Improvement Specialist

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This position reports to

Continuous Improvement Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to support the deployment of the continuous improvement strategy for a local organizational unit, including promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Each day, you will mentor and coach teams to achieve operational excellence and drive improved results. You will also showcase your expertise by deploying and leading projects to improve and sustain local business performance. The work model for the role is: #LI-Onsite This role is contributing to the Electrification Distribution Solutions division in San Luis Potosi. You will be mainly accountable for: • Escalating to relevant stakeholders, as necessary, to remove roadblocks that prevent the successful implementation and adoption of continuous improvement initiatives at local level and helping facilitate cases of conflicting priorities in collaboration with cross-functional teams. • Ensuring the continuous improvement approach and strategy deployed at local ABB unit level is aligned with the global strategy. • Facilitating significant improvements with respect to safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and/or cost targets, meeting customer and stakeholder commitments in collaboration with local leadership. • Providing training support by developing and maintaining training modules and toolkits aligned with business needs in collaboration with management at local level. • Promotes and implements improvement programs and projects within their own area of responsibility • Tracks programs, initiatives, projects, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to demonstrate progress and value, enabling decision-makers to allocate resources and recognize success.

Qualifications for the role

• 3 to 5 years of Continuous Improvement leader or similar position.
• Bachelors degree in Engineering
• Expertise on detecting, developing and reporting 10 -20 (or more) L6S Improvement Projects per year in a manufacturing and/or transactional environment, with relevant bottom-line savings.
• 6S Green Belt is a must (6S Black Belt preferred)
• Advanced English is a must (American Visa desirable).
• Expertise on providing training & coaching to hourly and salary staff.
• Results oriented and work towards objectives, High sense of urgency and Collaborative and Teamwork booster

What's in it for you?

• Coaching and mentoring from senior leaders and colleagues
• Get motivated by continuous improvement in what we do and how we do it, bring your know-how.
• Be yourself: join one or many of our Employee Resource Groups and make a difference!

Benefits

• Paid and Unpaid leave opportunities
• Life insurance
• Accident insurance
• Retirement plan
• Wellbeing program
• Dental insurance
• Flex days
• Employee Assistance Program (PAE)
• Development platforms: Spark, Harvard Manager Mentor and English Learning EF English Live School (EF)

More about us

We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory