• Lead with a safety mindset, drive employee engagement through trust vs. fear.  Invest in time to shape a culture that controls exposure and supports our employees.   
• Align strategy and tactics with the site-level Operations leadership
• Use data to identify gaps in performance versus best practices, working with the Plant Team to execute an improvement plan
• Utilize continuous improvement tools, processes and systems to better safety, quality, efficiency, cost, and reduce waste overall
• Assist with Implementing and managing systems that will sustain improvement efforts
• Lead and coach CI events/Kaizen through hands-on participation
• Partner with site leadership with the improvement of asset utilization and equipment management
• Develop training materials and effectively deliver in multiple formats to ensure team members throughout the organization are trained in CI concepts and philosophy
• Understand and applying financial drivers and key performance indicators
• Partner with plant teams to drive changeover improvements
• Evaluate and drive opportunities for appropriate CI and Lean tool application
• Document best practices and sharing improvements to leverage results
• Provide overall support, assistance, direction and communication to the plant leadership teams regarding CI initiatives
• Remote position that requires selected candidates be geographically located to a major metropolitan airport.
• Travel requirements:  80% - 90%

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, Business, Engineering, Operations Management, or related field 

• Minimum 5 years of manufacturing experience with proven change leadership skills and experience leading change 

• Positive and self-motivated attitude with proven determination and passion to manage projects, maintain KPI’s, and see problems through to resolution

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to relate to people at all levels of the organization, including diverse cultures

• Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, make recommendations, and present findings

• Demonstrated ability to model the corporate values and principles, including instilling a high performance, people-driven culture

• A high level of accuracy with strong attention to detail and quality of work is required

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.).

Desired Competencies:

• Instills trust

• Communicates effectively

• Manages Complexity

• Situational Adaptability

• Balances Stakeholders