Process Excellence Specialist

Job title:

Process Excellence Specialist

Company

Vattenfall

Job description

Company DescriptionVattenfall is a leading European energy company driving the transition to a sustainable energy system. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We employ around 21 000 people mostly in our core markets in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK.Job DescriptionAre you passionate about streamlining complex processes and shaping the future of renewable energy? Join us as a Process Excellence Specialist, where you’ll optimize and harmonize vital processes across our wind business unit. Collaborate with diverse teams, leverage cutting-edge digital platforms, and drive continuous improvement that supports our ambitious journey toward fossil freedom.You will be part of the Process Excellence & IMS Governance department, which drives strategic initiatives to optimize, harmonize and standardize processes across our wind operations. By integrating digital solutions, lean methods, and continuous improvement tools, we aim to deliver a paperless, data-driven environment that supports efficient decision-making and compliance with international standards. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams—ranging from operations and QHSSE to engineering and finance—this department ensures our processes consistently align with best practices and enable high-performance outcomes. Through cross-functional collaboration and innovative thinking, we provide the backbone for a streamlined, forward-looking approach to managing our wind assets.QualificationsYour role
As a Process Excellence Specialist, you will drive the transformation of our business process landscape and management system by designing, developing, and optimizing value streams across BA Wind. Collaborating with process owners, local process excellence teams, and governance specialists, you will ensure that integrated management system (IMS) requirements are embedded in every step, and processes is designed to give its utmost output.This role is central to harmonizing processes, minimizing duplication, and supporting our business strategic goals for performance excellence. You will focus on delivering high-value outcomes, whether by conducting gap analyses, leading improvement workshops, or enabling data-driven insights for better decision-making, or by redesigning the processes, eliminating waste and inefficiencies and replacing with automated workflows.If you are passionate about establishing an innovative, future-proof management system and enjoy working in an international, fast-paced environment, dont wait too much as we’d love to hear from you.Key Responsibilities:Process Design & Development

• Design and optimize process flows based on value stream mapping, industry best practices, and alignment with local process leaders. Utilising industry best practices and considering concepts such as value stream mapping and lean while addressing real business needs and priorities.

Collaboration & Coordination

• Partner with IMS governance, Business unit /staff function process owners, and various business stakeholders (e.g., Finance, QHSSE, Engineering) to ensure a coherent, compliant, and efficient value stream.

IMS Compliance

• Embed ISO standards (e.g., 9001, 14001, 27001, 45001) as well as Vattenfall group requirement into processes, acting as a guardian of our integrated management system and ensuring adherence to BA Wind’s Process Framework.

Performance improvement

• Identify gaps and harmonize processes; define KPIs/PPIs, conduct performance evaluations, and utilize problem-solving methods (Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen) for continuous improvement.

Project & Change Management

• Lead or support process standardization, harmonisation and optimization projects, facilitate process discussion workshops, Kaizen events, driving adoption of agile thinking and best practices sharing across BA Wind. Report project progress, bring ideas for process automations and use of AI when deemed helpful.

Your profileYou are a pragmatic yet collaborative professional who excels at balancing the need for high-quality, standardized processes with the flexibility required in a dynamic, international environment. You enjoy visualizing data, drawing insights to convey a clear message, and you thrive on stakeholder engagement—working cross-functionally and influencing diverse teams toward shared goals. With a creative mindset and a willingness to persevere through challenges, you take pride in aligning operational reality with strategic objectives. Above all, you are a self-starter who sees opportunity in complexity, remaining solution-oriented while championing continuous improvement.

Next to this, you bring:Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Operations Management, Quality Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• + 5 years’ experience in business process design, improvement, and optimization, ideally within an integrated management system (IMS) context.
• Experience working in cross functional team and project driven organization or complex high regulated asset projects

Technical & Methodological Expertise

• Solid grasp of SIPOC, value creation journeys, and full process lifecycles.
• Familiarity with ISO standards (e.g., 9001, 14001, 27001, 45001) and their integration.
• Proven experience in Lean/Kaizen, Six Sigma, or other recognized problem-solving methodologies.
• Knowledge of BPMN 2.0, APQC frameworks, and hands-on experience with business process management/mining tools (e.g., ARIS) is a plus.
• Experience in renewable energy or project/asset lifecycles (Design, Build, O&M) is desired.

Soft Skills

• Effective communicator, coach, and stakeholder management.
• Self-driven, creative, and persistent in overcoming obstacles.
• Solution and process oriented with go get mindset
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

Why not start your journey to working for fossil freedom by applying now?Location Kolding, Denmark – London, United Kingdom – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Solna/Stockholm, Sweden – Hamburg, GermanyAdditional InformationOur offerLooking for a career with growth?Looking for a role where your superpowers can be leveraged to the maximum and with limitless opportunities for growth?The scale and ambition of our wind, battery and solar business means you can really find your element with us. We’ll also provide you with all the learning and development you need to expand your horizons.We strive to be the best place to work in the industry with highly competitive pay and conditions and an open, supportive culture. A commitment to a healthy work-life balance aims to ensure everyone plays to their strengths, whatever their background and experiences.You will be part of a growing team of 1,700+ colleagues from 50+ nationalities where our positive approach to diversity is reflected in the fact that more than a quarter of staff are women.More InformationFor more information about the position, you are welcome to contact hiring manager Shilan Ahmadi, shilan.ahmadi@vattenfall.com. For more information about the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact our recruiter Christian Pathuel, christian.pathuel@vattenfall.comWe welcome your application in English no later than 23.03.2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website.At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Click for further information.The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfil within Vattenfall and will be performed by a third party, Validata.Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classified the final candidates might be subject to a security vetting process, according to Swedish legislation.We look forward to receiving your application!

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:25:57 GMT

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