Lead Continuous Improvement Engineer

Requisition

• Relocation Authorized:
  
  National - Family
• Telework Type:
  
  Full-Time Office/Project
• Work Location:
  
  Houston, TX

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the Infrastructure;
Nuclear, Security & Environmental;
Energy;
Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations.

Core to Bechtel is our Vision, Values and Commitments. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver. Learn more about our extraordinary teams building inspiring projects in our Impact Report.

Bechtel's Manufacturing & Technology (M&T) Business Unit is designing and building an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Manufacturing Facility located at Generation Park in Houston, TX. M&T is an exciting and growing business unit that serves customers in the semiconductor, datacenter, life sciences, and electric vehicle markets. M&T strives to exceed our customer objectives through utilizing our agility, innovative technologies, and world class talent.

M&T solves the industry's toughest challenges, building both our company and the world for the future. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the M&T global business unit also includes colleagues working in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, India, and additional project locations around the world.

The Lead Continuous Improvement (LCI) will report to the Project Quality Manager (PQM) and will be responsible for leading continuous improvement initiatives on the project. The LCI will support the PQM to develop and deliver a project customized continuous improvement program, including a risk-based strategy that meets project goals and objectives, including alignment, prioritizing, scheduling, training, metrics/dashboards, PBQ, LL, Causal Analysis, Six Sigma, and tracking progress of improvement initiatives.

The LCI will apply leadership skills, knowledge, experience, and tools (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, behavioral and facilitation techniques) to close gaps and invest in opportunities, resulting in institutionalized changes that measurably improve efficiency, productivity, and quality across the project. The LCI will be responsible for using data to measure and report project performance, and ensure improvements are institutionalized. The LCI will lead teams through the CI process to solve problems and make fact-based decisions to deliver right the first-time quality.

Facilitate resolution of issues, improvements, and opportunities across all functions within the project team. The LCI will lead continuous improvement efforts, be a key technical resource partner for the project team, resulting in improved project performance.

• Support the PQM in developing and implementing a continuous improvement program and risk-based strategy to meet project goals and objectives, including alignment, prioritizing, scheduling, training,metrics/dashboards, PBQ, LL, Causal Analysis, Six Sigma, and tracking progress of improvement initiatives.
• Manage and supervise a CI team in performing Continuous Improvement activities.
• Manages the project corrective action system.
• Prepares reports on the effectiveness of the continuous improvement program implementation.
• Communicates with other Functions and project personnel to ensure continuous improvement goals and objectives are met.
• Scope, plan, select the appropriate CI tools.
• Analyze data from processes and metrics across projects and functions.
• Conduct data analysis and develop performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of improvement initiatives and identify areas for further improvement.
• Monitor and use outputs from metrics to drive CI activities.
• Develop Quality incident OOM criteria for selecting appropriate causal analysis tool (RCAs - 5 Whys), and facilitate causal analysis activities.
• Utilize causal analysis tools to facilitate and lead apparent cause evaluations and root cause analysis.
• Develop and facilitate approved workshops and training sessions to educate employees on continuous improvement methodologies and tools.
• Provides input into the development of standardized performance indicators for the project.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by promoting collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing across the project.

Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13 years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work…