Continuous Improvement Trainee

Program Summary
• Twelve-month entry-level training program spanning at least two rotational assignments
• Coached by senior level Hitachi Energy professionals and mentored by Hitachi Energy in Vietnam's key management executive members.
• Marketing - leading benefits and long term career development opportunities.
Mission Statement:
To establish and maintain a continuous improvement (CI) culture in Hitachi Energy 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.
1. Continuous Improvement Deployment:
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.
2. Subject Matter Expertise:
Through project and training, identify key team member in each function to support in execution of projects within the location. 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.
3. Business Partnership:
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.
4. Implementation Resources:
Be a resource for our customers' continuous improvement efforts, and stay there until the work can be sustained by their own operation. Facilitate coordination of resources (machines/people/functions) as necessary to achieve goals. 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.
5. 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.
6. Capability Building:
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.
7. Change Management:
Drive transformational projects, within the scope of responsibility, with a hands-on ( ́Gemba ́) and problem solving approach.