Senior Continuous Improvement Leader

The Senior Continuous Improvement Program Leader (Master Black Belt) drives high-impact transformation across North America Global Supply Chain operations.

This role leads strategic improvement projects focused on reducing costs, scrap, and warranty claims while improving quality, yield, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

This position requires travel up to 50% within North America

While this role has no direct reports, successful candidates will bring mentorship experience and the ability to lead, influence, and support cross-functional teams without formal people-management authority.

Key Responsibilities


* High-Impact Project Portfolio: Build, prioritize, and execute a NAM GSC continuous improvement portfolio focused on the largest operational and quality losses.

Lead complex, cross-functional projects that deliver validated financial benefits, with individual initiatives expected to generate significant savings and the overall portfolio expected to produce hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual improvement.



* Scrap and Cost-of-Poor-Quality Reduction: Drive breakthrough reductions in scrap, rework, defects, blocked inventory, and other cost-of-poor-quality drivers by applying Lean Six Sigma, advanced analytics, Design of Experiments, statistical process control, and structured root-cause problem solving.



* Warranty and Customer Quality Improvement: Lead initiatives that reduce warranty claims, field failures, returns, and repeat customer issues.

Partner with manufacturing, engineering, supplier quality, customer satisfaction and quality, and commercial teams to convert critical customer problems into permanent corrective actions and measurable financial results.



* NAM Priority Issue Resolution: Work with NAM GSC Quality and Operations leadership to identify and solve the region's most critical business issues.

Rapidly mobilize cross-functional teams, establish fact-based problem statements, remove barriers, and ensure improvements are sustained through effective controls and ownership.



* Green Belt and Black Belt Academy: Design and maintain a rigorous, scalable development pathway for Green Belt and Black Belt candidates across NAM GSC.

Establish selection criteria, learning standards, certification requirements, coaching routines, and governance that create a strong and sustainable cohort of trained practitioners.



* Training Delivery and University Partnerships: Teach the classroom portion of Green Belt and Black Belt programs directly or coordinate delivery with established university and professional education partners.

Ensure the curriculum is practical, statistically rigorous, aligned with Schneider Electric priorities, and reinforced through hands-on application.



* Trainee Project Accountability: Ensure every Green Belt and Black Belt trainee is assigned a well-scoped project tied to a meaningful NAM GSC business need.

Challenge project charters, confirm baselines and benefit calc...