Performance Improvement Associate - Messer North America, Inc.

Lead and execute improvement and innovation projects in the Bulk Gases Business. Analyze plant, equipment, and distribution data along with profits and losses of the company to identify problems and opportunities for improvement. Implement improvement projects applying advanced knowledge of industrial gases, chemical engineering skills, project management and problem-solving methodologies. Quantify benefits and impact of projects on profits and losses along with prioritizing and tracking investments. Communicate and report progress, results, risks, and deviations of the projects to stakeholders. Lead projects to bring operation savings through cost reduction, innovation, revenues, customer satisfaction, and digitalization. Coordinate work streams with specific deliverables and phasing. Ensure that dashboards are in the required place to measure results and sustainability. Provide Six Sigma and Lean skills training to U.S. plant technicians and operators, the scheduling center and other business areas, focusing on continuous improvement tools applied to industrial gases.Requirements:•Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, management, or an engineering discipline such as chemical engineering or industrial engineering, and one year of business modelling experience.•Experience developing models, defining and preparing datasets, projecting outcomes, and identifying drivers that may influence outcomes specific to project activities within the industrial gases business and back office processes. •Proficiency with Excel including experience creating and using Excel models to analyze a project’s financial investment, benefits and payback, and simulating impact of different factors on a process or project, as well as experience with tools such as pivot tables and data visualizations. •Experience with continuous improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma or Lean. •Experience using Six Sigma methodologies to define and analyze data. •Experience with business modeling tools including Gantt charts to visualize and assess project timeline scenarios, SIPOC diagrams to document suppliers, inputs, processes, outputs and customers, and developing process maps, flow charts, and value stream mapping to visualize steps to identify potential improvements.•Up to 20% domestic travel.