Continuous Improvement Manager

Important Application Submission InformationIn order to ensure your application is successfully received before the job posting expires, please submit your application by 11:59 PM on Sunday, February 8, 2026More than a career - a chance to make a difference in people's lives.Build an exciting, rewarding career with us - help us make a difference for millions of people every day. Consider joining the Duke Energy team, where you'll find a friendly work environment, opportunities for growth and development, recognition for your work, and competitive pay and benefits.Position Summary:This position is responsible for using tools, techniques, and processes from Lean and Six Sigma methodology to lead and execute key process improvement and business integration efforts throughout the organization. The successful incumbent will possess skills required to own the continuous improvement process from identification of opportunities to implementation of initiatives and achieving sustainable operational change. The position will engage with stakeholders at various levels of seniority and lead improvement events based on senior management team priorities. Specifically, the incumbent will work with relevant business and executive stakeholders to provide input to potential areas of opportunity, scope and facilitate improvement events and efforts, create action items and roadmaps, oversee the execution of actions and track progress to ensure sustainability and maturity. This role will be required to immerse themselves within the business to ensure a successful future state outcome. Partnerships with multiple stakeholders and varying levels of leadership within the business, technology, and change management organizations will be required. This position will also document activities, monitor action items, and communicate progress of events to leadership. Coaching and training others within the organization is required, including peer teams and lean event participants. Strong leadership, a solid understanding of Lean and Six Sigma tools, a strong facilitation presence, collaboration, and the ability to navigate conflicting opinions and priorities within work groups is required.Responsibilities:Own and execute lean events and business integration efforts based on priorities from the Senior Management Team including but not limited to: engaging and collaborating with stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts, documenting current state and defining/developing future state processes and desired outcomes, planning and facilitating events, development of steps necessary to move stakeholder groups from as-is processes to desired future state processes, understanding and planning for barriers to implementation, translating discussion points to solid implementation strategies, facilitating SME readiness efforts, tracking for sustainment, executing any follow up and

Created: 2026-02-09