Continuous Improvement (CI) Coach (CPT)

DataFin; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic Energy Specialist is seeking a Continuous Improvement (CI) Coach in Cape Town. This role involves implementing CI principles, coaching teams, and ensuring compliance with governance. Candidates must possess a relevant Bachelor’s degree, and experience as a CI Coach, and be on the path to accreditation in Lean and Six Sigma. High-level stakeholder engagement and delivering improvement projects are key aspects of this position.

Qualifications

• 3 Years’ proven experience as a CI Coach.
• Accredited or on pathway to Lean Expert and Six Sigma Black belt.
• Experience with Lean/Six Sigma programmes and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Coach and support management and teams on CI interventions.
• Build CI deployment roadmaps for full coverage.
• Ensure compliance with audit outcomes and address non-compliance.

Skills

Lean Expert

Six Sigma Black Belt

Stakeholder engagement

Coaching leadership

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree/NQF 7 qualification

Job description

ENVIRONMENT

BE responsible for local reporting and tracking of the maturity and benefit levels across their CI interventions and driving adoption of world-leading CI principles as the next Continuous Improvement (CI) Coach sought by a dynamic Energy Specialist. You will be responsible for the successful delivery of CI interventions, including ‘wave’ deployment of CI capability and mechanisms to achieve a ‘Bronze’ CI maturity level, as well as tactical discovery/rapid improvement and value stream interventions. The successful incumbent will require a relevant Bachelor’s Degree/NQF 7 qualification & either accredited as, or on the learning pathway to becoming a Lean Expert and Six Sigma Black belt with at least 3 years proven work experience as a CI Coach.

DUTIES

CI Delivery & Implementation –

• Work with Divisional senior management to help provide lean strategic direction for interventions.
• Coach and support management and their teams in scope on their CI interventions, growing CI capability during the interventions.
• Build and drive CI deployment roadmaps to achieve full coverage and engagement over the next 2-3 years.
• Responsible for deployment of CI Bronze method with balanced outcomes across People, Customer and Cost.
• Responsible for all baselining and mobilisation activities and analysis in local area.
• Responsible for deployment of any Rapid Improvement interventions with outcomes delivered against Charter.
• Embed CI post wave and support the business units to consistently deliver year-on-year benefits of up to 5% after the initial wave.
• Responsible for all local CI intervention tracking and reporting of benefits, across intervention-levels such as Customer outcomes (Problem solving/KPI impact); People outcomes (engagement); Financial outcomes (enabling/incremental, cost/revenue); Maturity outcomes.
• Identify method innovations and provide feedback to the CI Lead.
• Provide leadership and coaching to Operational Managers and teams on a day-to-day basis.
• Intervene, where appropriate, to work with coaches and managers to help them resolve complex issues that would otherwise prevent full benefit delivery.
• Support other operational CI Coaches as a technical subject matter expert in Lean, Six Sigma and Change Management techniques.
• Support core CI training delivery.

Governance & Compliance -

• Ensure audit outcomes of the business processes meet full compliance, and address non-compliance with corrective measures.

REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications –

• Bachelor’s Degree/NQF 7 qualification.

Experience/Skills –

• 3 Years’ proven experience as a CI Coach.
• Either accredited as, or on the learning pathway to becoming a Lean Expert and Six Sigma Black belt.
• Recognised capability in Continuous Improvement with practical experience with Lean/ Six-Sigma programmes/deployments, Lean ways of working and coaching leadership in role modelling the respective behaviours.
• Previous experience of senior level stakeholder engagement and management.
• Relevant experience of delivering complex improvement projects/initiatives.

ATTRIBUTES

• Excellent communicator and well developed interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• High degree of change orientation, willingness to challenge current thinking in constructive ways which build support and develop new approaches to complex issues.
• Strong commercial, financial and analytical skills, working with the business to identify practical, performance improvement opportunities.