As our Senior Continuous Improvement Specialist you will have the opportunity to provide leadership and implementation of assigned continuous improvement activities. This is a proactive, results oriented, hands on role to develop and lead a culture of continuous improvement, continuous improvement of our business performance, and ensure alignment throughout the business to goals and objectives.

In this role, you will:

Be expected to work in accordance with our core values: Safety, Accountability, Integrity, Respect, Passion and innovation. The role of the Senior CI Specialist is to enable and support in the following areas:

Lead Improvement Culture:

• Ensure all improvements are focused on a safety first mentality.
• Develop formal training for others on lean and six sigma tools and principles.
• Train - trainers in lean and six sigma tools and principles.
• Coach others on lean and six sigma principles, projects, and tools.
• Coach - coaches on effective coaching and mentoring techniques.
• Facilitates kaizen throughout the business.
• Empower and involve everyone in the continuous improvement journey.
• Develop systems and mechanisms for idea capture, facilitate suggestions for improvement, recognize team members for their improvements.
• Ensure employee recognition is systemic in the organization.

Continuously Improve our business performance:

• Leader of problem solving tools and techniques to drive hands on problem solving activities (A3, DMAIC, PDCA, data analysis
• Lead cross functional teams in improvement events.
• Drive implementation of continuous improvement tools and systems.
• Create documentation, charts, labels to support visual factory efforts.
• Deliver cost savings projects to achieve site growth and productivity improvements.
• Support the achievement and documentation of all site growth and productivity requirements.
• Support development of project funnel to capture future opportunities and ensure moving forward in the CI journey.
• Drive 5S initiatives throughout the site, own sustainment and standardization of 5S efforts.
• Ensure standard work is developed and all processes in the site have and are working to standard work.
• Develop and deploy layered audit process for all standard work.
• Document and share best practices with other Albany sites.

Align teams to strategic priorities:

• Support hoshin working and reporting sessions.
• Support regular report out activities on continuous improvement projects.
• Assist in development of the annual and long term CI roadmap.
• Effectively communicate strategic priorities with cross functional teams.
• Develop and standardize sustainable improvement systems.
• Lead the development of KPI's for daily performance management connected with site strategy.
• Special projects and miscellaneous duties, as needed or assigned

  Supervisory responsibility: No

  Working Conditions: Indirect Labor: Office environment, moderate to quiet noise and not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions. Some travel <10% may be required.

  Physical requirements:

  • Occasionally positions self to move an office or production item.
  • Frequently move about the production floor and office area to attend meetings or trainings
  • Must be able to remain in a stationary position up to 75% of the time
  • Frequently operates a computer, enters data into systems, verifies information, etc.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree preferred, or 4 years direct equivalent experience
• 4 Years of manufacturing or related experience
• Aerospace or regulated manufacturing experience preferred
• Six Sigma Black Belt required or in progress
• Ability to lead project based activities with minimal oversite
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong analytical ability
• Strong computer skills (MS office, minitab, data analytics)
• Facilitation and presentation skills
• Technical writing skills
• As a Department of Defense Contractor we are required to hire US Persons, Visa sponsorship is not being offered