About the position
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.
While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.
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Desired Skills:
- Continuous
- Improvement
- CI
