Bu South Continuous Improvement

**Location**:Lyon, 69, FR, 69357**Function**:Industrial Operations**Employment type**:Full Time**Required experience**:Experienced - over 5 years**Reference ID**:74654BU South Continuous Improvement & Digitalisation Manage

**ONBOARDING YOU TO THE COMPANY**
- At Nexans our global vision is to electrify the future. At Distribution & Usages buisness group this means providing reliable cabling systems and smart energy solutions, including power accessories, to make buildings and power networks more efficient, more people oriented and more sustainable.- Nexans recognizes the differences that make each employee valuable and unique. Diversity is key to performance and to our global ambition to lead the world in the energy transition towards a sustainable planet. This we know from experience. All differences are appreciated and respected at Nexans. As a result, you will be an active part of a multinational organization where we cultivate the culture of sharing your unique point of view. This is why we encourage diversity in our recruitment - Bring yours to Nexans, it is welcome**Want to be part of an exciting journey? Join Nexans in the BG D&U Europe APAC as BU South Continuous Improvement & Digitalisation Manager in Lyon**
- The BU South is engaged in its transformation to support Nexans transformation to pure player of electrification. To reach this vision, key initiatives are identified : Value and Premium Strategy (through differentiated products and packaging) to follow the economic path, Sustainability and Impact Reduction of our operations (energy consumption reduction, scrap reduction and valorization, circular economy via recycled material use optimization), Digitalization & Automatization, etc.- BU South integrates six plants: Autun (Fr), Bohain (Fr), La Verpillière (Fr), Lamia (Gr), Lens (Fr), Plainfaing (Fr) and two additional logistic centres: Granollers (Sp) and Milton Keynes (UK).**Areas of responsibilities**:

- **Industrial Performance & Excellence**
- Leads in collaboration with the plant managers the yearly Saving Master Plan (SMP), from the budget phase to the monthly follow-up
- Develops automatic and digital dashboards to monitor the KPIs
- Organizes and supports the monthly Plant Industrial Performance Review
- Supports and coaches plants to enhance the system Management Routines in order to continuously improve the maturity
- Supports and coaches problem solving sessions
- **Lean 6 Sigmas Program**
- Defines and deploys the 3 years roadmaps
- Leads the Lean 6 Sigmas training initiative: Trainees validation, program definition, training process organization, project coaching, certification, etc
- Defines the graduate programs especially Green-Belt and Black-belt
- Identifies and validates the trainees profile in collaboration with the plant managers and local HR
- Organizes and monitors the training
- Coaches the ongoing projects
- Supports plants and teams on specific tools (analysis, statistic tools)
- Monitors the projects impact
- **Digitalisation**
- Is responsible of the definition of the digitalisation roadmap definition at the Business Unit level in accordance with group guidelines and plants needs
- Defines and duplicates best local practices
- Monitors the digitalisation transformation in collaboration with local experts
- Guarantees homogeneity in operational deployment
- Controls that the obtained results are in line with initial use cases
- Supports local experts when needed
- Participates to internal and external benchmarks
- Achieves return of experiment to continuously improve the solution and the methodology
- Participates to Business Group Governance

**Required skills and qualifications**:

- General Education: 4 to 5 years at university level
- Experience: 6 years at least in an similar position within the industry field
- Blackbelt or Master-Blackbelt Certification and corresponding practical experience of Lean 6 Sigmas.
- Project Change Management: Teamwork and Leadership
- Strong Leadership Skills
- Practical experience of Industrial Excellence, structured & systematic way
- Fluent (in writing and speaking) in French and English language
- Power BI skills

**OUR GROWTH CULTURE**
- Among our employees we share the same values
- we are pioneers of the energy transition, dedicated to deliver to the highest standards of performance, united to achieve our ambitious goal.- At the individual level our growth culture is built on trust and collaboration. We wish to welcome you as a valuable member of our team. To enable impact we believe in autonomy at the local level at the same time as we encourage knowledge sharing within our global engineering competence.**REFERRAL REQUEST**
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