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Get Access To All JobsDate: Nov 10, 2026
Location(s): Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 98369
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
We are seeking a highly analytical, improvement-oriented Business Process & Solutions Lead to drive business process optimization, operational standardization, and technology-enabled improvement across the Conduit product portfolio.
This role will work closely with operational stakeholders to understand how business processes function today, identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities, and design scalable future-state workflows. The successful candidate will apply structured process-improvement methodologies, including Lean Six Sigma, business process analysis, and data-driven problem-solving, to ensure technology investments address underlying business needs and deliver measurable operational value.
The position requires a combination of business process expertise, operational understanding, analytical capabilities, and practical technology skills. This individual will partner with Product Owners, operations teams, engineering teams, enterprise-system owners, and technology vendors to translate complex business problems into standardized processes, actionable solution concepts, and measurable improvement initiatives.
The successful candidate will be comfortable challenging established workflows, analyzing operational data, facilitating cross-functional discussions, and using modern analytical and development tools to investigate opportunities and validate improvement concepts.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze existing business processes across Conduit-supported operations to identify inefficiencies, unnecessary complexity, manual activities, and opportunities for improvement.
- Lead current-state and future-state process mapping, documenting workflows, roles, handoffs, decision points, business rules, and system interactions.
- Apply Lean Six Sigma, root cause analysis, value-stream mapping, and other structured improvement methodologies to solve complex operational problems.
- Identify opportunities to standardize workflows across sites, business units, technologies, and operational groups while accommodating legitimate differences in business requirements.
- Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to translate business challenges into clearly defined problem statements, improvement opportunities, and solution requirements.
- Evaluate whether proposed technology enhancements address underlying process problems rather than introducing automation around inefficient or inconsistent workflows.
- Develop practical recommendations for process redesign, simplification, automation, and technology-enabled operational improvements.
- Use data analysis, reporting, and operational performance metrics to quantify existing challenges, establish baselines, and assess improvement opportunities.
- Establish measurable success criteria and expected business outcomes for process improvements and proposed solutions.
- Facilitate workshops and working sessions with operational stakeholders to validate current processes, evaluate alternatives, and build alignment around future-state workflows.
- Identify dependencies and impacts involving people, processes, data, business rules, and connected enterprise systems.
- Partner with technical teams to evaluate solution feasibility and support rapid prototyping of business process improvements.
- Develop process standards, documentation, and recommendations that support consistent adoption and sustainable operational execution.
- Measure the effectiveness of implemented improvements and identify additional opportunities for optimization.
Job Overview
This position provides leadership for business process excellence, operational improvement, and business solution development across an enterprise product ecosystem.
Employees in this role are responsible for understanding business workflows, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and consistency, and helping translate operational needs into scalable, measurable, technology-enabled solutions.
The role serves as a bridge between operational stakeholders, Product Owners, technical teams, and enterprise-system owners. It combines structured process-improvement disciplines with business analysis, data analytics, and practical problem-solving to ensure product investments create measurable business value.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Leads current-state business process assessments and future-state workflow design.
- Applies Lean Six Sigma and structured continuous-improvement methodologies to operational challenges.
- Facilitates business process mapping, root cause analysis, and improvement workshops.
- Identifies opportunities for process simplification, standardization, automation, and waste reduction.
- Analyzes operational data to quantify problems, establish performance baselines, and measure improvement results.
- Develops business process documentation, workflow models, business rules, and improvement recommendations.
- Partners with Product Owners to define business needs, expected outcomes, and opportunities for product enhancements.
- Evaluates process, organizational, and technology dependencies associated with proposed solutions.
- Collaborates with technical teams to assess feasibility and validate solution concepts.
- Defines process performance indicators and monitors the effectiveness of implemented improvements.
- Supports stakeholder alignment and the transition to improved operational workflows.
- Promotes reusable process standards and continuous improvement practices across the organization.
- Leads business process improvement initiatives and cross-functional solution-development activities.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in business process improvement, operational excellence, business analysis, industrial engineering, business transformation, or enterprise solution development.
- Experience applying Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, root cause analysis, process mapping, value-stream mapping, or comparable continuous-improvement methodologies.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification, or demonstrated equivalent practical experience.
- Experience analyzing operational processes within energy, utilities, manufacturing, asset management, maintenance, or other asset-intensive industries.
- Strong analytical capabilities, including experience using SQL, Power BI, Excel, Python, or similar tools to investigate business problems and quantify improvement opportunities.
- Familiarity with enterprise systems such as SAP, Maximo, work management applications, or other operational technology platforms.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted analysis, workflow automation, process mining, low-code development, or rapid prototyping tools.
- Experience measuring realized business value and establishing sustainable process controls following implementation.
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 6+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Project Management
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies.
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Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
Job Segment: Sustainability, Energy
Date: Nov 10, 2026
Location(s): Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 98369
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
We are seeking a highly analytical, improvement-oriented Business Process & Solutions Lead to drive business process optimization, operational standardization, and technology-enabled improvement across the Conduit product portfolio.
This role will work closely with operational stakeholders to understand how business processes function today, identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities, and design scalable future-state workflows. The successful candidate will apply structured process-improvement methodologies, including Lean Six Sigma, business process analysis, and data-driven problem-solving, to ensure technology investments address underlying business needs and deliver measurable operational value.
The position requires a combination of business process expertise, operational understanding, analytical capabilities, and practical technology skills. This individual will partner with Product Owners, operations teams, engineering teams, enterprise-system owners, and technology vendors to translate complex business problems into standardized processes, actionable solution concepts, and measurable improvement initiatives.
The successful candidate will be comfortable challenging established workflows, analyzing operational data, facilitating cross-functional discussions, and using modern analytical and development tools to investigate opportunities and validate improvement concepts.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze existing business processes across Conduit-supported operations to identify inefficiencies, unnecessary complexity, manual activities, and opportunities for improvement.
- Lead current-state and future-state process mapping, documenting workflows, roles, handoffs, decision points, business rules, and system interactions.
- Apply Lean Six Sigma, root cause analysis, value-stream mapping, and other structured improvement methodologies to solve complex operational problems.
- Identify opportunities to standardize workflows across sites, business units, technologies, and operational groups while accommodating legitimate differences in business requirements.
- Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to translate business challenges into clearly defined problem statements, improvement opportunities, and solution requirements.
- Evaluate whether proposed technology enhancements address underlying process problems rather than introducing automation around inefficient or inconsistent workflows.
- Develop practical recommendations for process redesign, simplification, automation, and technology-enabled operational improvements.
- Use data analysis, reporting, and operational performance metrics to quantify existing challenges, establish baselines, and assess improvement opportunities.
- Establish measurable success criteria and expected business outcomes for process improvements and proposed solutions.
- Facilitate workshops and working sessions with operational stakeholders to validate current processes, evaluate alternatives, and build alignment around future-state workflows.
- Identify dependencies and impacts involving people, processes, data, business rules, and connected enterprise systems.
- Partner with technical teams to evaluate solution feasibility and support rapid prototyping of business process improvements.
- Develop process standards, documentation, and recommendations that support consistent adoption and sustainable operational execution.
- Measure the effectiveness of implemented improvements and identify additional opportunities for optimization.
Job Overview
This position provides leadership for business process excellence, operational improvement, and business solution development across an enterprise product ecosystem.
Employees in this role are responsible for understanding business workflows, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and consistency, and helping translate operational needs into scalable, measurable, technology-enabled solutions.
The role serves as a bridge between operational stakeholders, Product Owners, technical teams, and enterprise-system owners. It combines structured process-improvement disciplines with business analysis, data analytics, and practical problem-solving to ensure product investments create measurable business value.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Leads current-state business process assessments and future-state workflow design.
- Applies Lean Six Sigma and structured continuous-improvement methodologies to operational challenges.
- Facilitates business process mapping, root cause analysis, and improvement workshops.
- Identifies opportunities for process simplification, standardization, automation, and waste reduction.
- Analyzes operational data to quantify problems, establish performance baselines, and measure improvement results.
- Develops business process documentation, workflow models, business rules, and improvement recommendations.
- Partners with Product Owners to define business needs, expected outcomes, and opportunities for product enhancements.
- Evaluates process, organizational, and technology dependencies associated with proposed solutions.
- Collaborates with technical teams to assess feasibility and validate solution concepts.
- Defines process performance indicators and monitors the effectiveness of implemented improvements.
- Supports stakeholder alignment and the transition to improved operational workflows.
- Promotes reusable process standards and continuous improvement practices across the organization.
- Leads business process improvement initiatives and cross-functional solution-development activities.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in business process improvement, operational excellence, business analysis, industrial engineering, business transformation, or enterprise solution development.
- Experience applying Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, root cause analysis, process mapping, value-stream mapping, or comparable continuous-improvement methodologies.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification, or demonstrated equivalent practical experience.
- Experience analyzing operational processes within energy, utilities, manufacturing, asset management, maintenance, or other asset-intensive industries.
- Strong analytical capabilities, including experience using SQL, Power BI, Excel, Python, or similar tools to investigate business problems and quantify improvement opportunities.
- Familiarity with enterprise systems such as SAP, Maximo, work management applications, or other operational technology platforms.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted analysis, workflow automation, process mining, low-code development, or rapid prototyping tools.
- Experience measuring realized business value and establishing sustainable process controls following implementation.
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 6+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Project Management
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies.
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Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
Job Segment: Sustainability, Energy
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Business Process Lead Jobs
Frame your degree for specialty occupation
Business Process Lead roles must meet the H-1B specialty occupation standard. A degree in business administration, industrial engineering, or operations management maps directly. A general studies degree, even with years of BPM experience, creates RFE risk, document the direct relationship explicitly in your resume.
Use OFLC Wage Search before accepting offers
Your H-1B LCA must certify a wage at or above the prevailing level for your work location. Pull the OFLC Wage Search for your job title and metro area before negotiating, an offer below Level I prevailing wage can stall or invalidate your petition.
Target cap-exempt employers to skip the lottery
Universities, nonprofit research organizations, and government-affiliated entities are H-1B cap-exempt, meaning your petition can be filed any time without lottery selection. Business Process Lead roles exist in higher education administration and research operations, worth prioritizing if annual cap timing is a constraint.
Find verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Many employers post Business Process Lead roles without disclosing whether they sponsor visas. Migrate Mate shows employers with verified LCA filing history for this role type, so you spend time on applications where sponsorship is already confirmed rather than finding out at the offer stage.
Prepare a process improvement portfolio before interviews
Employers sponsoring Business Process Lead roles need to justify the position as a specialty occupation to USCIS. Concrete artifacts, workflow redesigns, Lean or Six Sigma project documentation, measurable efficiency outcomes, give HR the evidence needed to support the job description in an LCA or RFE response.
Clarify PERM implications if green card is the goal
If your employer plans to sponsor a green card after your H-1B, the PERM labor certification requires advertising the Business Process Lead role at prevailing wage. Confirm this intention early, PERM timelines often run 12 to 24 months and must be initiated well before your six-year H-1B limit approaches.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Business Process Lead role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the employer requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as business administration, industrial engineering, information systems, or operations management. Roles that accept any bachelor's degree regardless of field face higher scrutiny from USCIS. The job description should tie specific duties, process modeling, workflow optimization, cross-functional project governance, to degree-level knowledge in a defined discipline.
Which visa types realistically cover Business Process Lead sponsorship?
H-1B is the primary path for most candidates. Australian citizens can apply for the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and a separate annual cap that has never been exhausted. Chilean and Singaporean nationals may qualify for the H-1B1 visa. All three require the role to meet specialty occupation criteria and require an employer-filed LCA certifying prevailing wage before the visa application proceeds.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor Business Process Lead visas?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified LCA filing history for Business Process Lead and related operations roles, so you can focus your search on companies that have already demonstrated sponsorship willingness rather than relying on job postings that rarely disclose visa support upfront.
Can a staffing agency or consulting firm sponsor me for this role?
Yes, but third-party placement arrangements receive heightened USCIS scrutiny under H-1B rules. If a consulting firm places you at a client site as a Business Process Lead, the petitioner must demonstrate that it controls your day-to-day work and that a bona fide employer-employee relationship exists. Itinerary or project-based roles require documented end-client details at the time of filing.
What happens to my H-1B status if the Business Process Lead role is restructured or eliminated?
Your H-1B status is tied to the specific role and employer in the approved petition. If the position is significantly restructured or eliminated, the employer must file an amended petition before your duties change materially. If your employment ends, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer, change status, or depart the U.S., the new employer must file before or shortly after you start.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Business Process Lead jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.