Quality, Continuous Improvement and Project

3 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Hitachi Energy Full time

Hitachi Energy are looking for a **Quality,** **Continuous Improvement and Project Graduate** to join our growing team. The role will be homebased with some presence required at our new Birmingham city centre offices.

**Please note we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.**

Quality and Continuous Improvement are key to the growth and development of the business, from learning from past mistakes and identifying opportunities to improve. The quality of projects and feedback from our customers enables the business to develop and maintain being a market leader with our offerings. Through monitoring and managing our projects we can ensure continued growth and development of our people and organisation.

**Key areas of responsibility**:

- General Support to the Quality and Continuous Improvement department within Grid Integration Business Unit including process audits, project support and improvement projects
- A skilled communicator, with a professional and enthusiastic manner.
- Excellent organisational skills, having the ability to prioritise and organise workload and actions to meet the demand of the team and organisation
- This position involves working in a busy environment where accuracy, quality and timely completion of work is all paramount.

**Main Accountabilities**:
**Project Contribution**
- Project Quality representative, supporting execution of projects in Grid Integration
- Interact with key internal stakeholders to achieve key deliverables
- Exercise judgement on limited details of work
- Interacts with other staff and team members within one’s scope of deliverables
- Ensures quality deliverables on time and within targeted cost.

**Continuous Improvement**
- Support on reporting and development of Continuous Improvement (CI) program
- Lead CI projects locally
- Help support others countries on basic root cause analysis and CI projects
- Promotes and drives Q & CI initiatives within UK team
- Uses standard processes and tools applicable to one’s area of responsibility. Reports process and tool inefficiencies, along with suggesting ideas for improvement.

**Quality**
- Support Grid Integration auditing program
- Support on local ISO audit certifications
- Support from quality perspective on projects within UK

**Team & Administration**
- Managing a variety of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications
- Monthly reporting and analysis of Operational and Quality KPIs
- Manages time/tasks through action plan
- Supports on tasks for wider team
- Undertake any other reasonable duties and responsibilities as may be required

**Development**
- As part of the program to enhance development we will support with additional trainings in Lean Six Sigma and Quality Auditing through variety of external/internal courses and on the job experience

**Background**:

- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering, or Business Management, required
- Knowledge of Quality and Continuous Improvement, preferred
- Written and oral fluency in English
- Presentation and Excel Skills

**Basic Info**

**Location**
- Birmingham, United Kingdom

**Job type**
- Full time

**Experience**
- Entry Level

**Job function**
- Quality Management

**Contract**
- Trainee (Trainee)

**Publication date**
- 2024-02-02

**Reference number**
- R0041705

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