Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.
POSITION SUMMARY
Xylem is seeking a Global Dewatering CI Manager to help shape and accelerate continuous improvement across our global Dewatering business. This is a high-impact dual role that combines global Lean transformation leadership with direct CI execution for North America.
In this role, you will partner closely with the Dewatering SVP/GM and senior business leaders to define and execute the Lean transformation agenda across a global service and rental network. You will play a key role in improving the customer value proposition, strengthening operational discipline, accelerating profitable growth, and delivering measurable financial impact. You will also lead the Global Dewatering CI team, with team members located across Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Australia, aligning priorities, sharing best practices, coordinating cross-region initiatives, developing talent, and building stronger global CI capability across the Dewatering organization.
You will also serve as the CI Lead for North America, translating global strategy into practical, site-level execution through targeted CI projects, kaizen events, standard work, performance management, and coaching that improve service and rental operations across the US region.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
Partner with site and business leaders to build a strong Lean culture, strengthen local capability, and help teams identify and eliminate waste in ways that improve customer experience, productivity, and financial performance.
Lead the implementation, standardization, and continuous improvement of Lean practices across the Dewatering network, including Lean management routines, training, project execution, process improvement methods, and tools that promote flow and operational excellence.
Coach and develop site teams, CI practitioners, and functional leaders to increase Lean capability, problem-solving discipline, and ownership of sustainable improvement.
Translate strategic business priorities into a focused CI roadmap, ensuring improvement efforts are aligned to operational needs, customer outcomes, and measurable business value.
Identify, prioritize, and communicate opportunities for operational and strategic improvement, while scaling best practices and lessons learned across regions.
Facilitate cross-functional improvement work using process mapping, 5S, value stream mapping, root cause problem solving, kaizen events, and other Lean practices that improve day-to-day execution.
Analyze current and historical KPI trends, identify drivers of performance variation, and convert insights into practical countermeasures, action plans, and leadership decision support.
Create, refine, and deploy standard work, procedures, playbooks, and best practices that enable consistent execution and scalable improvement across sites.
Bring Xylem’s culture and Growth Enabling Behaviors to life by being inspired to innovate, empowered to lead, and accountable to deliver results through collaboration, urgency, and disciplined execution.
Metrics: Productivity improvements and financial impact, including validated hard and soft savings from CI initiatives
Root cause corrective action completion, countermeasure effectiveness, and sustainability of improvement results
Team and individual CI certifications, capability development progress, and demonstrated application of Lean skills in the business
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
FORMAL EDUCATION:
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business
Preferred:
Lean experience in a…