Principal Operational Excellence Engineer

**Principal Operational Excellence Engineer**:

- Location: Singapore, SG- Country/Region: SG- Job Area: General Management- Business Unit: Singapore**This is an ad for creators of change**
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**This is for you who wants to have a real impact on creating a healthier planet for our children every day. At Neste, you will be working for the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. Let’s create transformation for a sustainable future together.**

**We are looking for you,**

**Principal Operational Excellence Engineer**

**to our Operational Excellence Team in Singapore.**

**Operational Excellence team is a newly formed integrated team of experts with the purpose of driving continual improvement for safety, reliability, productivity and commercial competitiveness throughout our organization and ways of working in Renewables Production Platform. This integrated team will support, deploy and drive the Operational Excellence activities in the production environment to deliver benefits for the whole Renewable’s business of Neste.**

**Our Team is responsible for;**
- **Deliver selected Operational Excellence projects to business impact.**
- **Manage Renewables Production Platform Operational Excellence and Digital project portfolio to ensure right projects with right approach, resources and governance.**
- **Build Operational Excellence capabilities and awareness in production. Operational Excellence in the minds of everyone.**
- **With the right tools and methods improve the transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of decision making, meetings practices and agreed actions in production.**
- **Ensure right focus in Digital to support production and Operational Excellence.**

**Reasons to join**

**Real impact right now. We work in an inspiring and evolving business environment, where everything we do serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. To drive a growing impact as a global leader in renewable and circular solutions we live by our values every day; we care, we have courage, we cooperate.**

**Safety and caring. We value safety always and everywhere. We want our work to feel good and do good. At Neste, we nurture a culture where everyone is welcome and feels safe, respected and encouraged to be their unique true selves.**

**Exciting growth. Transformation brings new possibilities and fosters our courage and curiosity. As a global growing company we support personal development with versatile learning and career opportunities. Collaboration is the key, and we believe in flexible, smart ways of working.**

**More about the job**

**Your role in in creating a sustainable future**
- **Lead selected Operational Excellence initiatives, programs & projects to maximize profitability of end-to-end Renewables Platform process. Develop the ways of working and the supporting tools across the Renewables Production Platform organization to improve transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of decision making, processes and workflow. Lead and manage Operational Excellence Process & Portfolio and Tool related performance monitoring.**
- **Lead and mentor operational excellence projects; DMAIC, transactional, strategic priority, and maximizing value creation across end to end value chain; to customers and driving quality in the raw material.**
- **Translate objectives into prioritized & actionable plans at a work-stream level and utilizes good project management, tracking and reporting skills;**
- **Identify projects/improvement opportunities on an ongoing base;**
- **Provide specific support to sites where there is a gap in capacity or capabilities**
- **Enable and grow local Lean Six Sigma Black Belt & Green Belt capabilities.**
- **Strengthen continual improvement culture and mindset in the local organization**
- **Deliver Operational Excellence projects from idea creation to business impact.**
- **Deliver significant business value (EBIT) with the Operational Excellence projects, improved global collaboration between the sites and other functions.**

**Keys to success in this role / The best combination to succeed in this role**
- **Experience Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, 5 years or more, is preferred.**
- **Experience of petrochemical processes, technology, changement management, process improvement and professional project management.**
- **Strong knowledge of Six Sigma principles is preferred. Experienced in data collections and analytical approach and structure, including method and type of statistical analysis on various data, and use of the appropriate analysis. Demonstrated practical experiences and execution on Design of Experiments and analysis.**
- **Ability to coach and mentor the employees at site independently through the DMAIC methodology**
- **Strong knowledge of Lean principles is preferred.**
- **Basic Quality Tools | Problem Solving | Pro