Job Summary

Reporting to the General Manager, Business Development & Strategy, the job holder is responsible for providing independent critique of the company processes and procedures with the aim of causing improvements & innovations. The role conducts reviews on project implementation arising from originated process improvement to capture the quantity and value of the impact of the improvement and/or innovations.

Job Description

Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for the Business Process Improvement & Innovation Strategy across the Organization.
• Manage and set up a global governance framework for data driven cost and efficiency improvement initiatives across all regions, using strong data analytics, Six Sigma and tried & tested Lean methodologies. This includes analysing and interpreting technical and operational data and metrics for problem solving and decision-making.
• Coaching and supporting teams in identifying, verifying, analysing, and seeking process improvement and process redesign opportunities with a view to improving efficiency, lowering costs, improving service delivery and quality.
• Working with teams to perform operational project management analytics, checking rate at which milestones are met and deliverables achieved, to identify improvement opportunities.
• Facilitating independent critique of proposed or implemented solutions, or of new/improved processes, process models, innovations, new technologies and new approaches.
• Corresponding with teams to evaluate and quantify improvements and cost benefits arising from the improvements implemented.
• Coordinating teams to track and maintain budgets of total costs of pertinent operational projects (e.g. breakdowns or planned annuals) which can be referenced to determine how to reduce the costs & rate in future.
• Supporting process improvement initiatives that drive compliance, particularly those affecting stakeholder relationships including internal stakeholders.
• Support operations with best practices in maintenance, using Reliability Centered Maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance and other applicable models as per KenGen’s plant requirements.
• Training and guiding teams in process improvement techniques, best practice and coach employees to optimize their capabilities and productivity.
• Own & implement KenGen’s Innovation Pipeline to drive adoption, review and implementation of business viable ideas at regional and corporate levels, using available avenues.
• Incubate internal innovation forums as the primary source of diversification ideas for internal & externally viable commercial ideas.
• Set up a robust research & development framework that fosters viable & feasible solutions through modelling, prototyping, testing and system validation.
• Manage the Knowledge Management (harvesting & transfer) for technical processes in KenGen.
• Spearheading development of lessons learnt and application of the same to improve policies and procedures and execution.
• Working with teams to develop case studies that show the status of actions taken in the company, particularly about business disruptions or projects to enable executives make better informed decisions in the future, on response and cost management.
• The role will also act as the focal point for the KenGen Sustainability Strategy by taking an independent assessment of the Sustainability plans to ensure optimal return on all three dimensions: (economic, environmental, and social) within the reporting period.
• Ensuring planning, budgeting, procurement, progress monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.

Educational Requirements Job Experience/Qualifications

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:

• A minimum period of twelve (12) years in a relevant field, four (4) of which should be in a management role.
• Master’s degree in a management, strategy or a business-related field.
• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Science, Business or related equivalent field from a recognized institution.
• Relevant professional qualification and membership to a recognized institution
• Certification in Continuous Improvement tools or Project Management.
• Leadership Course lasting not less than four (4) weeks in a recognized institution
• Membership to a relevant professional body
• Fulfilled the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution.Deep understanding of ISO 9001.