RWE Looking for Senior Manager, Continuous Improvement at Austin, TX Full Time

Functional area: Process Management; Project Management; Quality Management

Remuneration: Exempt

The Continuous Improvement Team at RWE Clean Energy (RWECE) offers a wide range of consultancy services alongside the areas of Operational Excellence, Transformation, and Change. Its key objective is to support the different internal business functions in continuously improving their effectiveness and efficiency, as well as helping them achieve the company targets.

The Senior Manager, Continuous Improvement will support Management functions and will make a difference in our internal operations, projects, processes, and ways of working. You will positively challenge the status quo, and support the functions in achieving their ambitious targets.

Responsibilities:

• Train, coach, and support the RWECE senior leadership team in building their own CI capabilities so that they can achieve their ambitious targets
• Remove barriers to change and build full buy-in of senior leaders by influencing them to see the benefits of Continuous Improvement and role model the expected behavior
• Capability to think conceptually and form hypothesis-based approaches
• Contribute to the analysis, design, summarise and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions and working closely with stakeholders, to ensure positive impact and sustainable results
• Help our stakeholders make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals by identifying, and oftentimes implementing, potential solutions for a specific challenge
• Structure ambiguous problems, make recommendations to management, and take action to solve them by focusing on the most important challenges
• Manage all aspects of a project, including relationships with various stakeholders
• Work and support the other CI Managers to deliver sustainable performance improvement by providing them with guidance and expert problem-solving support

Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 years of business management or consulting experience required or 12 years experience in implementing continuous improvement in complex and large organizations
• Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering or MBA required
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Experience in project management of large-scale operations transformations across departmental or business borders
• Capable of communicating effectively verbally, visually, and quantitatively, plus analytical and consultive skills
• Proactive self-starter requiring minimal guidance and ability to meet deadlines with quality, drive the business, increase performance, and deliver results
• A “will do / can do” perseverant approach and a “hands-on” attitude
• Expertise in designing from scratch & facilitating workshops and training sessions with a range of senior business stakeholders
• Previous experience in leading a team with no direct reporting line
• Outstanding people & leadership skills and the ability to engage, influence, and convince all levels of the organization and build mutually trustful customer relationships
• Willingness to travel for certain client meetings and workshops across US offices is expected (average once a month)

Pay range: The annual base salary range for this position in New York is $124,300 – $186,400. The listed salary range represents our good faith estimate for this position and represents the range for new hire salaries across all U.S locations. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. RWE considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s education & work experience, training & certifications, and key skills as well as market and business considerations at the time of the offer.

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives, in addition to salary.

RWE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

For 125 years RWE has been the source of energy for millions of people across the globe. Now we’re making all that energy green. This decade alone we’re investing €50bn into renewables and will be carbon neutral by 2040 – ten years earlier than most other global targets. This is a chance to play a key role on our journey.

Join our renewables specialists, working across the clean energy spectrum to grow our operations to 50 GW by 2030 – with some of the world’s largest on and offshore wind farms and industry-leading hydrogen initiatives. We’re also considered innovators in solar development including floating photovoltaics and agri-photovoltaics. Or add your expertise to our supply and trading operations, brokering renewable electricity, green gas, commodities, and CO2 emission allowances from one of our advanced energy trading floors.

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