Manager, EPE Business Process & Continuous Improvement - Oahu

Company: hawaiianel

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BRIEF POSTING

DESCRIPTION:

The P EP ENTERPRISE EXECUTION Department of the P ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 Management vacancy available. (Role: Manager Supervisor)

JOB FUNCTION:

Responsible for supporting the identification, prioritization and execution of performance excellence initiatives/projects/programs enterprise-wide in alignment with corporate strategy. Provides expert execution on business process improvement, program/project management, process/project budgeting/costing, resource estimation, and regulatory guidance. Ensures strategic alignment in the execution of initiatives and measures success via post process improvement/program/project benefits realization. Aligns with and coordinates initiatives/programs/projects to the Strategic Transformation Plan and financial/budget goals.

Supports activities related to interactions with internal and external process areas. Responsible for the continuous improvement of assigned functional areas. Responsibilities are tri-company wide.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Business Process and Continuous Improvement (CI) – Works with leadership to identify, analyze, prioritize, and improve business processes in alignment with achieving strategic goals. Responsible for the successful execution of continuous improvement events and/or business process analysis in support of initiatives/programs/projects. This includes but not limited to implementing and sustaining the corporate CI Strategic Plan, CI Deployment Plan, CI Communication Plan, execution Records Management and Archives, Operations Room and Information Center, Recognition Program, Governance and formal monitoring of the successful execution of such plans.
  
  Practices Plan, Do, Check, Adjust (PDCA) routinely.
• Costing and Benefits Realization – Responsible in execution to ensure that processes/programs / projects follow measured guidelines for business process improvement, business case analysis, budget development and costing, resource assumptions and allocation, and planning assumptions (taking into account regulatory, environmental and permitting requirements). Mentors management to develop strong business cases that deliver on benefits. Monitors and reports on initiative/program/project’s ability to deliver post process improvement/program/project operational success aligned with strategy.
• Program/Project Management – Works with leadership to identify, analyze, prioritize, and schedule interrelated process initiatives to achieve strategic goals. Responsible for the successful requirements gathering of the program/project, and reports on program/project goals, strategy, progress and status. Is considered the conduit for inter-related initiatives and proactively negotiates, and manages the issues associated with shared resources be it labor, dollars, logistics, and/or inter-related program/project objectives.
• Process and Project Governance Support – Responsible for supporting and participating in established program management and CI governance processes. This includes but is not limited to:
  Following all defined procedures in respective charters (analysis,…