Senior Continuous Improvement Leader

Schneider Electric•Nashville, TN

About The Position

The Senior Continuous Improvement Program Leader (Master Black Belt) drives high-impact transformation across North America Global Supply Chain (NAM GSC) operations. The role leads strategic, cross-functional improvement projects to reduce costs, scrap, warranty claims, and other quality losses while improving quality, yield, productivity, and customer satisfaction. The position has no direct reports but requires mentoring experience and the ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without formal people-management authority. Travel across North America is required, up to 50%.

Requirements

Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification from ASQ or an equivalent recognized institution.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Business, or a related discipline.
Extensive experience leading continuous improvement in a complex manufacturing or supply-chain environment, including multi-site or regional transformation programs.
Demonstrated record of completed Black Belt and Master Black Belt projects delivering substantial, Finance-validated savings through improvement areas such as scrap, warranty, productivity, yield, inventory, or process optimization.
Ability to identify high-value opportunities, turn strategic priorities into executable project charters, and manage a portfolio through control and benefit realization.
Expert-level command of DMAIC, Lean, Design of Experiments, measurement system analysis, hypothesis testing, regression, statistical process control, capability analysis, failure analysis, and change management.
Demonstrated success designing and teaching Green Belt and Black Belt curricula, coaching candidates through certification, and partnering with universities or external learning providers.
Strong financial and business acumen, including experience validating project benefits with Finance and communicating results to senior executives.
Exceptional facilitation, influencing, and executive communication skills, with the ability to challenge assumptions, align stakeholders, and drive accountability without direct authority.
Advanced proficiency in Minitab and Microsoft Office applications, and the ability to translate complex analysis into operational actions and teach others to do so.
Ability to travel across North American sites as required.

Nice To Haves

Lean certification and advanced problem-solving credentials.
Master’s degree.

Responsibilities

Build, prioritize, and execute a NAM GSC continuous improvement portfolio targeting major operational and quality losses, and lead complex projects that deliver validated financial benefits.
Reduce scrap, rework, defects, blocked inventory, and other cost-of-poor-quality drivers using Lean Six Sigma, advanced analytics, Design of Experiments, statistical process control, and structured root-cause problem solving.
Lead initiatives to reduce warranty claims, field failures, returns, and recurring customer issues, partnering with relevant manufacturing, engineering, quality, customer, and commercial teams to implement permanent corrective actions.
Work with NAM GSC Quality and Operations leadership to identify and resolve critical regional issues by mobilizing cross-functional teams, establishing fact-based problem statements, removing barriers, and sustaining improvements.
Design and maintain a Green Belt and Black Belt development pathway, including selection criteria, learning standards, certification requirements, coaching routines, and governance.
Deliver or coordinate Green Belt and Black Belt classroom training, including collaboration with university and professional education partners; maintain practical, statistically rigorous, Schneider Electric-aligned curricula reinforced by hands-on application.
Ensure trainees have well-scoped projects connected to NAM GSC business needs; review project charters and baselines, validate benefit calculations, coach candidates, remove barriers, and hold them accountable for completed projects and measurable results.
Partner with Finance and functional leaders to establish benefit-calculation standards, validate savings, prevent double counting, and track forecast, realized, and sustained benefits.
Coach site leaders, sponsors, Black Belts, Green Belts, and cross-functional teams in Lean Six Sigma, data-based decision-making, change leadership, and sustainment; build continuous-improvement capability into daily management.
Establish project-review, risk-escalation, certification, savings-validation, and control-plan governance, and provide executive updates on portfolio health, value, capability growth, and opportunities.
Champion continuous improvement across functions and sites, creating urgency around major losses and ensuring solutions are standardized, replicated, and sustained across NAM GSC.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
Benefit Bucks credits for benefits.
Flexible work arrangements.
Paid family leaves.
Well-being programs.
12 holidays per year.
20 days of paid time off per year, prorated in the first year based on start date.
Base salary and short-term incentives.
Opportunities to own company shares, subject to eligibility.
401(k) with match.
Performance and development conversations.
Senior Talent Program.
Global career opportunities.
Access to the Schneider Career Hub for positions, projects, and mentors.
Learning platforms including Coursera.
Recognition program, including service anniversaries.
Volunteer leave.
Programs through the Schneider Electric Foundation.
Military leave benefits.