Flight Deck - Lean Leader - Aerospace Research
- Support a culture of continuous improvement and simplicity across AR.
- Collaborate with extended teams to improve operating cadences across all organization through tool deployment and coaching.
- Responsible for driving measurable and sustained deployment of standard work, 5S and lean initiatives across AR.
- Develop, maintain, and track the "health" of the AR value stream as part of the continuous improvement process.
- Design and implement data management processes to extract and transform data for both existing and new KPIs within the Transformation Office.
- Present success stories and challenges associated with Kaizen activity across AR.
- Analyze and summarize complex data in support of Kaizen activities using excel and other analytic tools.
- Drive system level solutions to reduce manual intervention and reduce process.
- Drive continuous improvement in the daily, weekly monthly operating cadence within the Transformation Office, coordinated with the rhythm of the entire enterprise.
- Work with other process improvement leaders to prioritize, coordinate, load balance and implement Kaizen activities across AR.
- Support the development and implementation of standard work across the AR organization.
- Responsible for ownership of specific daily, weekly, and monthly management processes that measure the health of operations with respect to supporting the top of the house bowler.
- Deploy lean across the enterprise by leading and participating in Lean events to remove waste and improve organizational effectiveness.
- Develop materials where required and train and coach various teams on Lean tools, methodologies and how to effectively deploy FLIGHT DECK.
- Collaborate with various operational colleagues to ensure solutions are comprehensive, sustainable, and properly account for the impact across the entire value stream.
- Responsible for maintaining a voice of the customer (VOC) operating rhythm and process improvement prioritization process across the entire value stream.
- Partner with Aerospace Engineering on short and long-term business process improvement initiatives.
- Work on tradeoff studies to determine where there are system level solutions for larger scale process improvements.
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 10 years of experience in operations, program management and/or quality management roles
- Must be willing to work onsite in Niskayuna, NY
- US citizenship required
- Experience leading Lean events.
- A proven track record of process improvement and control plan implementation across an organization
- Experience with management of change processes
- Strong presentation and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead programs and projects.
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