Digital Transformation & Productivity Specialist

Siemens Energy, Inc.; Amadora; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal allowance

Health insurance

Remote work within country

Pontes days off

Job summary

Siemens Energy is seeking a process improvement professional to drive Lean-based productivity and digitalization within the Europe & Africa hub. You will translate regional needs into actionable cases and lead the delivery with regional teams and global counterparts.

You will coordinate with service centres, project execution, and engineering to quantify baselines, benefits, and data changes, ensuring sustained adoption of improvements and value realization.

Qualifications

• Experience in process improvement or operational excellence, ideally in services, projects, or manufacturing.
• Ability to quantify baselines and benefits using Lean methods.
• Experience translating business needs into analytics and automation requirements.

Responsibilities

• Identify regional improvement opportunities and translate them into decision-ready cases.
• Own the delivery of regional use cases with input from SMEs and stakeholders.
• Consolidate productivity metrics and ensure consistent recording of benefits.
• Collaborate with global teams to align regional needs to the digital agenda.
• Track realized benefits post go-live and address gaps to sustain value.

Skills

Process improvement

Lean methods

Data analysis

Requirements gathering

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

English proficiency

Tools

SAP

Salesforce

Power BI

Process mining

RPA

AI applications

Job description

A Snapshot of Your Day

Join our Grid Technologies Services organisation and become the driving force behind improvement, productivity, and digitalization across the Europe & Africa hub. You will work with the regional teams to find where time, cost, and quality are being lost, turn those findings into well-founded improvement measures and digital use cases, and see them through to real adoption and measurable benefit. Acting as the bridge between your hub and the global Operational Excellence and Digitalization teams, you make sure that regional needs shape the global digital agenda and that global solutions actually land and get used in the region.

A Snapshot of Your Day

Join our Grid Technologies Services organisation and become the driving force behind improvement, productivity, and digitalization across the Europe & Africa hub. You will work with the regional teams to find where time, cost, and quality are being lost, turn those findings into well-founded improvement measures and digital use cases, and see them through to real adoption and measurable benefit. Acting as the bridge between your hub and the global Operational Excellence and digitalization teams, you make sure that regional needs shape the global digital agenda and that global solutions actually land and get used in the region.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Identify improvement, productivity, and digitalization opportunities across the Europe & Africa region, working closely with service centres, project execution, field service, engineering, and bid tendering teams.
• Detail opportunities into decision-ready cases: business impact, cost or time baseline, productivity lever, expected benefit, and the process or data change required.
• Act as the regional entry point into the global use case funnel. Register, qualify, and prioritize regional demand together with the global Operational Excellence and digitalization teams.
• Consolidate the region’s productivity measures, maintain the underlying data and documentation to reporting standard, and ensure consistent, non-duplicated recording of benefits.
• Own the business side of regional use cases through delivery: requirements, subject matter expert involvement, testing, training, rollout, and adoption.
• Track expected versus actual benefit after go-live and elevate gaps, so that committed improvements are genuinely realized and sustained.
• Apply Lean methods, value stream mapping, root-cause analysis, Kaizen, standard work, to simplify processes before automating or digitalizing them.
• Drive quick wins to a fast, pragmatic result by defining scope and requirements tightly and steering the delivery teams that build them.
• Build digital and process improvement capability in the region: enable local key users, share reusable solutions, and promote a continuous improvement culture.
• Represent Europe & Africa in global process, data, and digitalization initiatives, and make sure regional realities are reflected in global standards.

What You Bring

• 3 to 5 years of experience in process improvement, operational excellence, productivity programmes, digital transformation, or a comparable role - ideally in a service, project, or manufacturing environment.
• Practical experience applying Lean methods to improve operational performance, with the ability to quantify a baseline and a benefit credibly.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into clear requirements for analytics, workflow automation, and AI solutions, and to steer their delivery without owning the technical build.
• Experience coordinating initiatives across regions, functions, and management levels, including working with central or global teams.
• Confidence in working with data - understanding where it comes from, where it is weak, and what it takes to make it usable for reporting and decisions.
• A structured, hands‑on, and outcome‑focused mindset, comfortable with both workshop facilitation and detailed follow‑through.
• Advanced English proficiency; further European languages are an advantage.
• Availability for business travel across the region is required.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of SAP, Salesforce, Power BI, process mining, RPA, or AI applications is an advantage;
• Lean or Six Sigma certification is beneficial.

About The Team

Our Grid Technologies division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation. Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation. Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• Competitive salary and meal allowance
• Fair compensation for international work
• Health insurance coverage
• Remote work permitted within the country
• Additional 5 “Pontes” days off and Birthday off if it falls on a weekday, when not abroad (only applies for Portugal)
• Among others