Job description
Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customisation, quality and industrial design.
At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!
In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.
In this role as Continuous Improvement Leader, you will have responsibility for leading and coaching the organisation in driving an effective improvement journey. The role will require the individual to lead teams and engage business leaders in analysing performance, determining processes and tools to improve and drive the projects, and governance to implement the improvements. You will be a change agent with the courage to champion improvement within the business with the ability to motivate others to achieve results.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
1. Work with the business leaders to undertake continual analysis of the business to expose opportunities for change and improvement.
2. Drive continuous improvement within the business and identify opportunities for improvement including deployment of Balanced scorecard, One Safran, Customer Improvement projects. Lean Journey & QRQC.
3. Drive engagement with participative innovation across the business.
4. Analyse and monitor financial and customer benefits throughout the life of the improvement project.
5. Champion and share the use of best practice methods for improvements across the business and provide evidence of real change implementation.
6. Able to lead teams in analysing data and determining the key activities that will reduce the defects or increase flow.
7. Use of Value-Stream Mapping to determine production bottlenecks and leading the team to address the issues found.
8. Able to communicate the progress to both internal and external customers and influence the leadership team to ensure support to drive workstreams to closure.
Job requirements
* Lean Sigma Black Belt Certification.
* Problem Solving 8D.
* QRQC knowledge (Desirable).
* Training experience.
* Communication Skills.
* Presentation Skills.
* Facilitation skills.
* Change Management Skills.
No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you!
Specificity of the job
There is no regular travel required with this role.
Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defence and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible.
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