Xylem Inc. is a leading global water technology company with over 3.2 billion in sales. Xylem does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market leading product brands and its people bring board applications expertise with a strong focus on finding local solutions to the world’s most challenging water and wastewater problems. Xylem’s 12,000 employees are unified in a common purpose: creating innovative solutions to meet our world’s water needs. Residential & Commercial Water is one of four business units under the Xylem umbrella and some of their leading product brands and solutions include: Heat Transfer, Bell & Gossett, Goulds Water Technology and Flowtronex.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Xylem’s Residential and Commercial business and its efforts to provide products and systems for the efficient movement and use of water in homes, commercial buildings, light industry, agriculture and irrigation. Xylem employees share a passion for meeting the world’s needs by offering the best water solutions to our customers. Xylem seeks employees with the ingenuity, skill and passion to help solve the world’s water challenges. Specifically, we are seeking a Black Belt.

The person in this role will be part of a team of in house experts for disseminating knowledge, enabling project selection and delivering training/coaching at all levels of the organization. This position will take a leadership role in large, complex Lean Six Sigma initiatives and projects focused on improving productivity and reducing the overall cost of the business, to include process cycle time and the elimination of waste and work in process (WIP) across the site, utilizing Lean tool expertise (5S, Standard Work, SMED, Material flow, etc).

The Principal Accountabilities/Essential Functions include:
• Lead large scale and complex improvement projects within a site, across sites, Value Centers or management companies and effectively coordinate these projects with Site Leadership, the Six Sigma team and other improvement project teams
• Project leadership includes: identifying opportunities; defining and financially justifying project benefits; negotiating resources; launching project teams; using good project management to manage team activities; leading teams to execute projects with the problem solving methodology; tracking project status and results; anticipating and removing project barriers; and developing team members
• Ensure projects are integrated and aligned with other business activities, coordinate with the appropriate project/process owners to accomplish the project goals
• Provide consultation and direction as a subject matter expert on the application of Lean Six Sigma methods to the Site Leadership Team, Master Black Belt, Black Belts and Champions
• Participate in project reviews and consult on VBLSS projects
• Provide necessary training, coaching and consultation to team members to spread the base of Six Sigma Problem Solving tools and Lean principles and their application in project implementations
• Identify implications of Lean project implementation (synergies and breakdowns)
• Ensure two-way open communication throughout the organization for VBLSS. This includes keeping the Master Black Belt informed of program status and ensuring coordination of activities with other Black Belts, Site Leaders and key stakeholders. Communicate best practices and share learning opportunities across the organization
• Manage the development and maintenance of methods and systems for measuring the degree to which the project goals, objectives and metrics are being met. Provide site leadership and value center Champion with the results and take corrective project action as required to improve on results below targets
• Identify potential Black Belts and recruit team members into the Lean Six Sigma organization

Nature of the role:
The candidate for this position must be self-motivated, high-energy, pro-active, analytical, process driven, with a strong focus on understanding and exceeding the expectations of the customer (whether internal or external).

Under the supervision of the Master Black Belt, and following department, office, and company procedures, the Black Belt is responsible for leading project teams to improve critical business processes and drive financial results. Position should be held a minimum of 24 months before consideration for repatriating into a new role. Responsible for identifying project scopes, developing project plans and business cases, and recruiting/training/leading project team members, tracking/measuring project results, and other essential duties.

Scope of the role:
The Black Belt will assist in the development of site improvement plan based on the principles of Lean and Six Sigma, including manufacturing and transactional processes. Plans will include project and activities to meet savings / cost avoidance targets. The Black Belt will act as coach to trained and certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belts, SMART teams and other improvement teams formed to execute projects and activities. Above all, the Black Belt must fulfill the needs of the company in a manner which is consistent with Xylem’s vision and values.

Xylem offers an outstanding compensation and benefits package, medical, dental and life insurances; Investment Savings Plan (401K) with employer matching. If you are looking for an exciting career with a world-class organization, make the move to Xylem.

Required Experience: Education: Bachelors Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience

Experience: Black Belt certification Required

Other Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
Should have solid project management skills Interpersonal skills and team leadership skills.

Should have knowledge of other functions that provide inputs regularly, i.e., Product Dev., Eng., Quality, Purchasing, Mfg, Finance, HR, and Operations.

Must have working Knowledge of Minitab and or other Statistical software package.

Contact
Tiffani A. Anderson
Recruitment Supervisor
Xylem- Residential & Commercial Water
Office-847-983-5566
Cell- 224-330-8308
Fax- 847-983-1771

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