Regional Lean & Operational Excellence Lead

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in the United States is seeking a Senior Continuous Improvement Leader to drive operational excellence across the Power Transformers organization. You will partner with business and functional leaders to accelerate improvement, strengthen quality systems, and standardize best practices across sites.

You will lead strategic initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, and Root Cause Analysis to improve productivity, quality, and throughput time, with up to 50%

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, Quality Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in operational excellence, business process management, continuous improvement, manufacturing, or related disciplines.
• Lean Manufacturing, Lean Enterprise Systems, Six Sigma, Quality Management Systems, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Lean Six Sigma, Lean Expert, or Lean Master certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives across the Power Transformers organization.
• Partner with leadership teams to establish strategic objectives, performance metrics, and improvement roadmaps.
• Drive Lean transformation efforts focused on waste elimination, process standardization, and quality enhancement.
• Facilitate strategy deployment, KPI management, daily management systems, and structured problem-solving practices.
• Lead cross-functional projects utilizing Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, and Root Cause Analysis methodologies.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, productivity, safety, delivery performance, and cost efficiency.
• Coach, mentor, and develop employees and leaders in continuous improvement principles and best practices.
• Collaborate with operations, engineering, quality, supply chain, and support teams to optimize end-to-end business processes and reduce throughput time.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures and guidelines.

Skills

Lean Manufacturing

Six Sigma

Kaizen

Value Stream Mapping

Root Cause Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, Quality Management

Job description

Hitachi Energy in the United States is seeking a Senior Continuous Improvement Leader to drive operational excellence across the Power Transformers organization. You will partner with business and functional leaders to accelerate improvement, strengthen quality systems, and standardize best practices across sites.

You will lead strategic initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, and Root Cause Analysis to improve productivity, quality, and throughput time, with up to 50%