Continuous Improvement Specialist

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You will be working as a Continuous Improvement Specialist and will be the part of Electrification Business Area for Smart Buildings Division located in Dubai, UAE. In this role you will be responsible to establish and maintain a continuous improvement (CI) culture in ABB focusing on Customer & Quality by deploying a set of CI competencies, utilizing Lean Six Sigma (L6S) as the CI methodology, and creating transparency to monitor progress, within the area of responsibility; typically, Continuous Improvement projects in the local organization and/or Mastering multiple GB Projects.

Your responsibilities

• Execute the local approach to continuous improvement and strategy deployment via L6S, facilitate best practice sharing within your location. Work in cross functional teams to execute the strategy and escalate as necessary to remove roadblocks.
• Through project and training, identify key team member in each function to support in execution of projects within the location and encourage key individuals to further develop skills in L6S and advocate for them if projects come up that need their skillset, mentor and coach Business CI candidates. Develop pipeline of CI team members able to drive business results.
• Understand the organization’s vision, objectives and improvement needs and suggest projects, improvement actions and L6S tools to achieve objectives. Work with leaders to identify and access the best resources (internal) with which to work.
• Be a resource for our customers’ continuous improvement efforts and stay there until the work can be sustained by their own operation and facilitate coordination of resources (machines/people/functions) as necessary to achieve goals. Customers are required to build up competency and resources to sustain solution and to support deployment of LBU strategy through effective utilization of CI resources where needed, within the functional area of expertise.
• 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.
• Provide training, coaching and facilitation support to individuals and teams so that they are better equipped to drive their improvement efforts for themselves. To drive standardization and consistency within the L6S project and to make sure the knowledge is well transferred within the GB community and drive transformational projects, within the scope of responsibility, with a hands-on (´Gemba´) and problem-solving approach.

Your background

• Electrical Engineering.
• 5 to 7 years of experience.
• Expert level in SAP SD, MM, FICO with minimum 5 years working experience.
• Good Understanding of APO, inventory planning and logistics processes.
• Expert level in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Six Sigma certification.
• Good verbal and written English communication skills.

Benefits

• Retirement plan

More about us

ABB Smart Buildings digitally transforms commercial, industrial and residential buildings for the highest comfort, efficiency, safety and security – enhancing quality of life in buildings of the future through safe, smart and sustainable electrification solutions, services and products. We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. Work model: on site #LI-onsite