Engineer 1

Nidec•Southaven, MS

About The Position

The Process Improvement Analyst V is an expert individual-contributor role responsible for defining and driving the organization’s most critical, complex, enterprise-wide process transformation initiatives. The role leads high-impact improvement efforts spanning business units, platforms, or regions and helps shape improvement priorities, governance, methodologies, and strategy. It does not include formal people-management responsibility; leadership is exercised through influence, thought leadership, mentorship, governance, and strategic partnership. The position typically reports to a Vice President of Operational Excellence, Strategy, Transformation, or an equivalent executive sponsor. The role partners with executive leadership to prioritize transformational opportunities, shapes future-state operating models, and applies advanced analytical, statistical, and systems-thinking approaches to complex organizational challenges. It owns initiatives from vision and design through implementation and sustainment, defines success metrics and benefits frameworks, and works to embed improvements in operating rhythms, leadership behaviors, and performance management. It also advises leaders on change strategy, builds organizational improvement capability, mentors other improvement professionals, and monitors relevant external practices and benchmarks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management, Analytics, or a related field.
Typically 12–15+ years of experience in process improvement, operational excellence, strategy, or related professional roles; the additional job details also state a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.
Demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale, transformational improvement outcomes.
Expert-level mastery of Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies.
Exceptional analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving capability.
Strong business acumen and understanding of enterprise value creation.
Proven ability to influence C-suite and senior leaders without formal authority.
Outstanding executive presence, communication, and facilitation skills.
High integrity, sound judgment, and a long-term enterprise mindset.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree (MBA, MS, or equivalent) is strongly preferred.
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead enterprise-scale, cross-platform process transformation initiatives with significant financial, operational, and strategic impact.
Partner with executive leadership to identify, prioritize, and sequence transformational improvement opportunities.
Shape end-to-end future-state operating models aligned with long-term enterprise strategy.
Apply advanced analytical, statistical, and systems-thinking approaches to diagnose complex organizational and process challenges.
Integrate process, financial, customer, and operational data to identify opportunities for transformation.
Develop multi-year improvement roadmaps and scenarios informed by enterprise context and risk.
Own transformational initiatives from vision and design through implementation, sustainment, and cultural embedment.
Define success metrics, benefits frameworks, and governance mechanisms, and ensure improvements are institutionalized.
Define and steward the enterprise continuous improvement strategy and operating model.
Establish and evolve improvement standards, methodologies, tools, and governance structures.
Influence enterprise prioritization and funding of improvement portfolios.
Advise executive and senior leaders, translating complex analytical and operational insights into clear recommendations.
Support enterprise transformations such as restructuring, system implementations, and operating-model redesign.
Advise leaders on change strategy, adoption, and cultural transformation; anticipate and mitigate enterprise change risks.
Elevate organizational capability in problem solving, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Mentor Process Improvement Analyst I–IV roles and senior professionals across the enterprise.
Model analytical rigor, structured problem solving, and improvement discipline, and contribute to developing future improvement leaders.
Monitor external best practices, benchmarks, and emerging improvement methodologies; introduce relevant ideas and represent the organization in improvement forums or partnerships as appropriate.