Manager - ITM

Description

Your responsibilities:-

• Continuous Improvement Deployment: Deploy and execute the Hub/GPG strategy to continuous improvement and strategy deployment via L6S. Facilitate best practice sharing within your locations. Work directly with key stakeholders in locations to achieve buy-in and execute strategy. 

• Subject Matter Expertise: Develop talented individuals within your locations and provide access to internal customers who require specific content knowledge and/or capabilities relevant to their continuous improvement program. Mentor and coach Business CI candidates. Develop pipeline of CI team members able to drive business results. 

• Business Partnership: Understand the organization’s vision, objectives and improvement needs and suggest projects and improvement actions that support objectives. Work with leaders to identify and access the best resources (internal or external) with which to work 

• Implementation Resources: Ensure budget and team resources for our customers’ continuous improvement efforts, and stay there until the work can be sustained by their own operation. Customers are required to build up competency and resources to sustain solution. To Support deployment of LBU strategy through effective utilization of CI resources where needed, within the Functional area of expertise. 

• Performance Transparency & Improvement: Provide organization-wide visibility of the current portfolio of continuous improvement efforts; track via metrics/KPIs progress and value from these efforts in order to help decision makers allocate resources and recognize success, with special focus on operational cost reduction. To work effectively with other CI leaders to standardize processes and develop best practices. 

• People leadership and development: Ensures that the area of responsibility is organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guides, motivates and develops direct/indirect subordinates within HR policies. Develops the skills and competences to create a highly effective and efficient team.

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:-

• University degree: Bachelor in Engr (minimum). Good to have MSc/MBA equivalent,

• Background in transformers, automotive, industrial equipment, and precision parts manufacturing

• Proven record in facilitating, leading kaizens and major improvement projects.

• Competent in lean tools (Value Stream Mapping, Problem Solving, Std Work, Strategy deployment, Material Processes, 5S/Waste Observation, Daily Mgt, SMED, etc),

• Certified lean practitioner (MBB in L6S, Train-The-Trainer certification etc),

• Fluent written and spoken English matched with excellent communication skills.

• Disciplined, systematic and with passion for Lean strategies and deployment. High personal integrity,

• Strong “results oriented, people centered, do what it takes, never give up” mindset

• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.