Continuous Improvement Leader

This role requires full time travel to various locations with the Airfoils segment. Travel could include Dover, NJ, Morristown TN, Whitehall, MI and Acuna Mexico.

Job Role

• Improvement agent--provides guidance while contributing substantively to implementation and solutions; listens well to ensure the right interventions occur; maintains focus as an internal partner versus outside observer
• Sustainability support--understands plant and enterprise level strategy and prioritizes projects accordingly; creates follow up plans, provides support and accountability to ensure adoption and independent implementation
• Educational implementer--conducts planned events and responds to operational needs to create efficiencies that support strategies; manages projects and events efficiently and maximizes allocation of resources under time pressure
• Business acumen--creates compelling business case for events and interventions; understands and communicates the "why" behind efforts; measures success based on business performance
• Analysis and synthesis--seeks first to listen and understand; determines root cause with contributions from others; translates based on observation and input
• Influence--compels others without direct authority; provides business case and data-driven justification for events; appreciates the use of other leaders' resources and people, holds those things in trust; creates a favorable brand for HBS and CI
• Coach--helps others grow their capability; motivated by teaching and improvement
• Creativity and innovation--challenges the status quo; networks internally to gather information; offers ideas and potential solutions based on observation and direct feedback from operators and supervisors
• Strategic perspective--driven to improve the plant to improve the business; prioritizes based on hoshin and collaboration with other leaders; identifies areas of greatest potential return and adds value at the decision making level; thinks about the business as it will be in the future when deciding what to do today.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide support to the business for effective and efficient implementation of HBS to employees and managers.
• Assess and diagnose problems from a process, quality, and cultural/people perspective
• Design and prioritize the development plan and metrics for closing the gap of current and target business change
• Teach and coach during execution of plan to help create a self-sufficient and continuous improvement culture.
• Work on HBS projects to increase productivity, capacity, and yield.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum of 5 year's experience in program management and training
• Minimum of 7 years of leadership experience