Operations Excellence Specialist
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Job Location:
Lake Charles, LA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
23-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
A job at Sasol is a career made by you with purpose development opportunities benefits to support every stage of life and a working culture that embraces flexibility diversity and inclusion. Learn more.
Purpose of Job
- Ensure successful adoption of process improvements and organizational changes applying a structured Operational Excellence methodology.
- Coordinate continuous improvement activities and ensure engagement across the organization.
Key Accountabilities
- Mentor and coach employees on OE principles and tools
- Facilitate training sessions and workshops on OE methodologies and continuous improvement
- Conduct process mapping value stream analysis and statistical analysis to identify improvement opportunities
- Promote a culture of problem solving and data driven decision making within the organization
- Collect and analyze data on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to efficiency quality safety and cost as required by projects
- Support during root cause analysis to identify underlying issues affecting performance
- Support the development of best practices of fundamental elements and processes at the sites in the United States
- Applies tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the required changes by the OE initiative
- Maintain a ONE SASOL mindset. Collaborates effectively with other functions in IC broader SASOL and external specialized forums
Formal Education
Bachelors degree in Engineering or Science
Working Experience
- 5 years of industrial experience in Chemical Processes
- Previous experience in business process development and implementation
Required Personal and Professional Skills
- Capability to handle a large work volume and develop a wide breadth of knowledge to operate effectively in all areas of responsibility
- Knowledge of management systems related to Operations SHE technical services and Maintenance
- Effective oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong sense of business acumen with continuous improvement as a priority
- Management style must include values driven leadership cultural sensitivity strong business acumen team focused networking and relationship building ability and capable of blending innovative ideas with practical solutions
- Some travel may be required
Sasol (USA) Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race color religion creed age sex sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy national origin disability or protected veteran status as well as any other characteristic protected by applicable law regulation or local ordinance. For more information about your rights under the law see treats work-authorized job applicants equally in recruiting and hiring without regard to their citizenship status or national origin unless required by law regulation executive order government contract or determination by the Attorney General. Please note Sasol will not sponsor obtain and/or petition for temporary visa status (for example E F-1 H-1 H-2 L B J or TN) for candidates for this position and/or personnel hired for this position.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Financial Services
- Information Technology
- Cost Control
- Corporate Risk Management
- Law
About Company
Sasol is a global chemicals and energy company. We are a public company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa and the New York Stock Exchange in the United States.
