Continuous Improvement & Operations Excellence Team Lead

Location: Wendell

** Job Family:
** Electrification & Automation

** Req :
** 506173

Here at Siemens, we take pride in enabling sustainable progress through technology. We do this through empowering customers by combining the real and digital worlds. Improving how we live, work, and move today and for the next generation! We know that the only way a business thrives is if our people are thriving. That's why we always put our people first.

Our global, diverse team would be happy to support you and challenge you to grow in new ways. Who knows where our shared journey will take you?

** Transform the everyday with us!*
* ** About Smart Infrastructure - Electrification and Automation:*
* The Electrification and Automation (EA) Business Unit delivers a comprehensive portfolio of energy distribution systems and solutions across all markets and sales channels. We support today's power distribution needs while investing in our Future Grids portfolio and digital applications to enable the power distribution grid of tomorrow.

The EA Business Unit's U.S. headquarters in Wendell, North Carolina, specializes in medium‑voltage power distribution equipment, including primary and secondary switch gear, controllers, contractors, circuit breakers, as well as OEM and replacement/retrofit solutions and services. The facility also assembles low‑voltage motor control centers and low‑voltage switchboards. In addition, the factory has in‑house fabrication capabilities, including metal punching and bending, along with automated wire‑harness manufacturing processes.

** We are looking for a Continuous Improvement & Operations Excellence Team Lead. This position will be based in Wendell, NC.*
* In this pivotal manufacturing professional leader role, you will drive transformational lean, agile, and continuous Improvement activity for all production, logistics, and fabrication processes at our SI EA Wendell Operations (Switchgear & Breakers) manufacturing site, collaborating across matrixed teams of technical, commercial, and engineering professionals to build more resilient, more sustainable systems of production value flow.

This role will have influence over the plant daily operational management system, ensuring that a performance-driven, managing-for-daily-improvement (MDI) approach is embodied by all work teams, and that people are supported by the right mix of lean enablers, toolsets, techniques, signals, processes, and developed competencies to promote daily Kaizen and unlock new levels of productivity. You will be responsible for planning and facilitating sprints, workshops, and other structured events which employ the right frameworks to build solutions, solve problems, and implement desired concepts in a sustained and scalable way.

In the age of industrial AI, it is crucial that you thrive across both the physical and digital planes, and can strategically partner with various business groups in a tech-forward environment to realize truly innovative and state-of-the-art solutions.

** You'll make an impact by:*
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** Shopfloor management system ownership:**  strengthening manufacturing capability and performance by providing new management system enablers such as but not limited to visual process controls, performance indicators, signals, escalation protocols, accountability, standardization, fast-response problem solving, process audits, and sustaining mechanisms.

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** Kaizen / sprint / workshop facilitation:**  build customized work events employing best-fit approaches from relevant methodology, orchestrate pre-work and practical logistics, and guide all necessary contributing parties through a collaborative sequence of exercises to speed the flow of internal improvement projects from idea to execution, ultimately forming a revolving deck of continuous improvement activity which can become a defining feature of plant culture.

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** Building organizational competency and fostering CI culture:
** Provide training, coaching, and pathways for staff and employees to learn, adopt, and practice principles of continuous improvement in alignment with business objectives. Support the proactive definition, documentation, and socialization of standards to…