Sr. Business Process Engineer

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Sr. Business Process Engineer

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Meet the Recruiter:Danielle Lomeli

Job Summary:

The Senior Business Process Engineer provides strategic leadership for business process transformation, governance, value realization, and organizational capability development. This role defines standards, enables portfolio prioritization, advises leadership, and drives enterprise-scale improvements that align people, process, technology, and business value across the manufacturing organization. 

Essential Duties:

• Lead the identification, prioritization, and development of an enterprise-wide value creation pipeline to ensure a healthy sustained delivery of digital transformation initiatives aligned with business strategy.
• Defining business process transformation roadmaps and prioritization methods aligned to strategic objectives for an overall healthy portfolio of improvements.
• Lead or guide enterprise-scale initiatives involving multiple functions, systems, operating models, and stakeholder groups.
• Advise leadership on portfolio management, value-realization, investment tradeoffs, resource needs, business impact, and capability development opportunities.
• Establish repeatable BPE methods, templates, practices, and quality expectations for process analysis, business cases, KPIs, and implementation controls.
• Own and oversee multi-project value pipelines, cost-reduction opportunities, benefit tracking, and executive-level reporting of business outcomes. Define, implement, and maintain business processes and procedures for material flow and data flow into systems to meet business objectives.
• Identify digital transformation, automation, AI, analytics, and system-integration opportunities that improve operational performance.
• Develop capability across the team through mentoring, coaching, knowledge sharing, standards adoption, and succession planning support.
• Resolve complex stakeholder misalignment, cross-functional conflicts, strategic ambiguity, and process ownership gaps.
• Represent the BPE Team as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, business partners, vendors, and cross-functional transformation teams.
• Use best practices to carry out business process analysis, re-engineering, process measurements and change management activities
• Work with stakeholders to identify business requirements, processes, and risks
• Evaluate current business processes and recommend solutions for improvements
• Facilitate pain-point discussions to gain clarity re: process gaps and inefficiencies
• Ensure in compliance with customer and company proposed standard
• Other duties as assigned

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements:

• To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employees, wearing PPE is a possibility and may include equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, bump cap, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator.

The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills and efforts or work conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature and level of the job.

Requirements - Required and/or Preferred

Education:

• Basic/Required:  Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• Preferred:  Master’s Degree

Essential Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10+ years of professional or an equivalent combination of education and experience in Digital Transformation, Engineering, and Process Optimization.
• Hands-on experience in the application of business process analysis tools including but not limited to: Current state processes analysis, current state performance and metrics, issue identification, root cause analysis, business case development, cost benefit analysis, future state design, roles and responsibilities, metrics, process control and management.
• Deep experience leading strategic process transformation, governance, portfolio prioritization, financial justification, and value realization.
• Advanced understanding of manufacturing systems, data flows, integrations, operating models, and digital transformation opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, manage ambiguity, resolve cross-functional conflict, and guide enterprise decisions.
• Strong executive communication skills with ability to translate complex technical and process topics into clear business recommendations.
• Proven ability to mentor others, establish standards, build organizational capability, and sustain continuous-improvement culture.
• Proven ability to plan and deploy business process improvement initiatives.
• Proven ability to apply business process principles to business solutions.
• Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies.
• Proven ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected business information and articulate their collective relevance to the organization.
• Ability to develop metrics, collects data, analyze data to identify cause, measures performance against process requirements.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively at all levels of an organization and influence others to move toward consensus.
• Must be able to walk through out the factory extensively.
• Must have working-level knowledge of the English language, including reading, writing, and speaking English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Resilient, self-motived and able to work well under pressure
• Experience in an industrial manufacturing environment
• Alignment to Panasonic’s seven (7) core principles (contribution to society, fairness and honesty, cooperation and team spirit, untiring effort for improvement, courtesy and humility, adaptability, gratitude)

Preferred Certification(s):

• Lean or Six Sigma Certification is strongly preferred

Physical Demands:

Physical Activities: (Percentage of time (equaling 100%) during the normal workday the employee is required to)

• Sit:                                                       70%
• Walk:                                                   20%
• Stand:                                                   5%
• Lift:                                                        5%

Required Lifting and Carrying: (Required frequency is:  Not required (0%), Occasional (1-33%), Frequent (34-66%, Continuous (67-100%)

• Up to 10 lbs.:                                       Occasional
• Up to 20 lbs.:                                       Occasional
• Up to 35 lbs.:                                       Occasional
• Team-lift only (over 35 lbs.):               Occasional

Benefits & Perks - What's In It For You:

Panasonic Energy prioritizes total well-being and offers comprehensive benefits options to support physical, emotional, financial, social, and environmental health:

• Health Benefits – Offering medical, dental, vision, prescription plans, plus Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
• Voluntary Benefits – Life, accident, critical illness, disability, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance.
• Panasonic Retirement Savings & Investment Plan (PRSIP) – 401(k) plan with company matching contributions and immediate vesting.
• Paid Time-Off Benefits – Vacation, holidays, personal days, sick leave, volunteer, and parental & caregiver leave.
• Educational Assistance – Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses after six months of service.
• Health Management and Wellbeing Programs –Lifestyle Spending Account, EAP, virtual health management, chronic condition, neurodiversity, tobacco cessation, substance abuse support, and life stage and fertility resources. Available to eligible employees starting the first day of the month following your start date. Eligibility for each benefit may vary based on employment status, location, and length of service.
• Employee Recognition Program - High5 employee recognition and awards platform, quarterly and annual employee recognition
• Annual Bonus Program - Opportunity for an annual performance-based bonus.
• On-site Food Options: Several on-site cafes, plentiful snack and beverage kitchens, revolving on-site vendor visits and employee events
• Free Shuttle: Rides to and from work!

Where You'll Be:

For our onsite roles, Panasonic Energy is committed to fostering an ideal working environment that goes beyond the conventional. We understand the significance of moments that matter in your onsite experience, and we prioritize creating a workspace that not only promotes productivity but also ensures a fulfilling and positive work atmosphere. Join us at Panasonic Energy, where your onsite presence is valued, and we strive to make each moment count in your professional journey.

Who We Are:

Meet Panasonic Energy! At Panasonic Energy, you'll do work that matters as we are dedicated to transforming the world through the acceleration of sustainable energy. By producing safe, high-quality lithium-ion batteries, you become part of a team that plays a crucial role in creating technologies that move us.

Our journey began in 2017, and now, as the world's largest lithium-ion battery factory, we are expanding operations to De Soto, Kansas, providing you with the opportunity to experience career growth in more ways than one.

As an innovative thinker, you'll thrive here, as we continually push the boundaries of lithium-ion battery technology and production capabilities to enhance efficiency and performance in EVs.

Being part of Panasonic Energy means positively contributing to society, aligning with our commitment to building a better world through sustainable energy solutions.

We care about what you care about, fostering an environment where your contributions make a meaningful impact on the future of energy and transportation. Join us and be part of a team that values your work, encourages innovation, and actively contributes to a positive societal impact.

In addition to an environment that is as innovative as our products, we offer competitive salaries and benefits.

We Take Opportunity Seriously:

At Panasonic Energy, we are committed to a workplace that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. Fairness and Honesty have been part of our core values for more than 100 years and we are proud of our diverse culture as an equal opportunity employer.

We understand that your career search may look different than others and embrace the professional, personal, educational, and volunteer opportunities through which people gain experience. If you are actively looking or starting to explore new opportunities, submit your application!

Supplemental Information:

Pre-employment drug testing is required.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. without restriction.

Thank you for your interest in Panasonic Energy Corporation of North America.

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