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Job Family: Quality ManagementReq ID: 363153Will consider remote Siemens employees within the Midwest zone; external candidates must be local to the Siemens Chicago branch office located in Rolling Meadows, IL (or willing to relocate to the area).Who designs your future? You do.Are you looking for a career where you can showcase your technical aptitude and passion for problem solving to ensure your customers can work in a comfortable, safe, and energy-efficient environment? Then look to Siemens!Join our team! Recognized by Fortune as World’s Most Admired Companies 2023Our Culture:At Siemens, we live and foster an ownership culture, in which every employee takes personal responsibility for our company's success. We trust and empower our leaders to act as owners, direct their teams, and innovate to succeed. We communicate openly and honestly to learn from our failures and celebrate our successes. We recognize individual and team achievements frequently. We invest in our team members, offering a wide variety of internal and external development opportunities.What you will do for Siemens Smart Infrastructure:The Midwest Zone Continuous Improvement Manager will drive process maturity of business standards, process excellence, productivity initiatives, and a continuous improvement culture within the zone.You will work closely with the zone management team to drive improvement opportunities, best practice sharing, and lessons learned. You will report to the Director of Continuous Improvement within the Business Excellence department. Continuous Improvement is a high performing business community built on openness and trust that delivers results and adds value to the business.This position:
Ensures quality aspects are included in zone business strategies reducing non-conformance costs and improving bottom line results.
Drives productivity for operations, via tool adoption, emphasizing efficient end to end process execution.
Drives improvement in process maturity results that gauge proper execution and cross functional collaboration of critical processes.
Utilizes and promotes standard tools driving appropriate templates, training, and coaching.
Communicates, collaborates, and supports key stakeholders at division, zone, and branch levels to ensure goals, metrics, and actions plans are achieved.
Responsibilities:
Leads root cause analysis for business performance issues, develops corrective actions and recommendations, and implements process changes when appropriate.
Establishes and implements communication strategies and plans to increase awareness and improvement of productivity issues across the zone.
Ensures adoption of quality processes and business process standards to achieve customers’ perceived value requirement, including time and cost targets, while maintaining alignment with the company’s business model.
Assess, develops, establishes, and reviews operational processes and quality systems based on local needs and customer expectations.
Conducts lessons learned workshops to identify best practices and improvement opportunities.
Oversees improvement projects and ensures team members are trained in appropriate process development.
Collaborates with operations departments to reduce non-conformance costs on installation projects and service agreements. Uses efficient and systematic approaches to identify root causes, optimizes processes, and eliminates waste.
Drives business performance and sets priorities according to sustainable top and bottom-line impact.
Reports changes to internal and external standards and ensures continuous communication of performance results to appropriate individuals, teams, and locations.
Qualifications:
High school diploma or state-recognized GED; Bachelor’s Degree in Quality Management, Business Management, Finance, or Engineering preferred.
4+ years of direct continuous improvement experience.
8+ years professional experience; 4+ years of construction experience preferred.
Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt certifications preferred.
Must be results oriented, possess superior team building and coaching skills, excellent leadership, and communication skills. Strong quality, analytic, and problem-solving experience preferred.
Ability to influence decisions and compel action in a complex organization.
Must foster a positive and professional image by optimizing communication techniques.
Up to 40% travel required.
Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.
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