Contract: Continuous Improvement Lead / Houston

Continuous Improvement Lead

Location: Houston, TX

Type: Contract

Schedule: Standard/Onsite

 

Purpose:

The Continuous Improvement Lead will be responsible for leading and executing programs to simplify and match the related and organizational systems with the importance of consumers and stakeholders.

 

Responsibilities:

• Independently works at regional or asset level
• Manages the engagement with multiple (groups of) stakeholders on an operational level
• Impacts regional processes of medium complexity
• Has a focus both on single and multiple initiatives within a single process or organization
• Stage of deployment tends to be sustaining mode or a mix of sustaining mode and replication or roll-out of a selected approach
• To identify and deliver service improvement activity across the business through employing

process improvement methodologies and the application of innovative thinking

• To support the delivery of better value and greater efficiency through the identification and

elimination of unnecessary complexity within business processes and identification of better ways of working

• To identify trends and process variations as part of establishing a continuous improvement

monitoring system

• To work with other team members and business services departments to devise new support material based on the revised processes, to include training, reporting and systems enhancements
• To actively monitor project risks to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify

 

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, finance, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field
• Quality improvement methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma
• Passion for Continuous Improvement
• Ability to communicate with all levels within the organization
• Organizational skills