Summary – Operational excellence is a key enabler for Voith Hydro’s growth and profitability ambitions. Achieving this requires not only technical expertise but also excellence in our core processes—robust standards, state-of-the-art tools, and a culture of continuous improvement that increases quality, speed, and innovation.
The Regional Excellence Manager plays a pivotal role in driving these ambitions at regional level. Acting as the primary interface between the region and the global excellence organization, the role ensures that:
- Global initiatives, standards, and tools are effectively deployed, adopted, and embedded in the region, and
- Regional needs and performance gaps are identified, prioritized, and addressed through targeted improvement projects.
This is a highly hands-on role working closely with functional leaders in Sales, Tendering, Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing. The Regional Excellence Manager supports process definition, improvement, and standardization, ensuring seamless integration across the value chain.
Responsibilities –
- Identify, assess, and prioritize regional requirements and performance issues.
- Launch and lead regional improvement projects, ensuring measurable and sustainable impact.
- Monitor performance and embed a continuous improvement culture within the regional organization.
- Ensure regional representation in global method development and tool rollouts.
- Drive adoption, training, and change management for new global standards, processes, and tools.
- Collect regional feedback and consolidate insights for global harmonization and further development.
- Support the definition, documentation, and adherence to standard processes.
- Maintain and evolve regional standards, templates, and tools based on global frameworks.
- Ensure alignment and compliance across the core value chain functions.
- Facilitate seamless interfaces between Sales, Tendering, Project Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain.
- W ork with functional and divisional leaders to ensure consistent execution and operational discipline.
- Promote best practice sharing across sites and regions.
- Support and lead change management, capability building, and excellence training activities.
Employees in this position are regularly required to walk, stand and use hands to finger, handle or feel. They are frequently required to reach with hands and arms. They are often required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employees are required to talk and hear in an industrial setting (noise level can be high at times) and regularly required to lift 10 pounds and occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds.
