Continuous Improvement Leader

Company Description

About Chromalloy:

Chromalloy has expanded from a gas turbine parts repair business into an OEM supplier of production parts and advanced repairs and services for gas turbines used in aviation and power applications. Chromalloy serves the airline, military, marine and energy segments with a broad range of services at locations around the globe.

Job Description

The Site Continuous Improvement Leader is primarily responsible for leading the Continuous Improvement Deployment at their site to develop a CI culture and to provide technical support and coaching in LEAN processes to grow the process improvement capabilities of the business.

This role requires significant leadership skills, as well as technical LEAN skills such as Value Stream Mapping, 5S Deployment, Cellular Manufacturing, TPM, Kaizen, etc. The individual will need to drive change management, effectively communicate throughout the organization, and collaborate to achieve target performance and share best practices.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. The duties and responsibilities regularly performed for this position are:

Identify and align CI Priorities, Goals and Objectives. ·

• Work in collaboration with regional CI leadership to implement the Chromalloy Continuous Improvement System.
• Work in collaboration with site and regional CI leadership to identify and improve those areas most important to the site and Chromalloy.
• Establish CI roadmaps, KPIs, priorities, project goals and assess results. 
• Provide regular and ongoing feedback regarding improvement opportunities to Site Leadership and to CI Leadership.
• Coordinate, lead and execute improvement projects and initiatives in order to achieve business needs and objectives.
• Drive CI culture throughout the organization by organizing & facilitating CI events as necessary and ensuring that accountability for CI held at all levels in the organization and ensuring standards are followed correctly.
• Conduct site evaluations of CI Standards’ proficiency as directed by Site and CI leadership.

Deliver business results:

• Identify and eliminate process waste by continually driving a cultural shift in the organization with sustainable results.
• Monitor progress of improvement projects by establishing reporting process metrics, and creating business performance scorecards, providing regular business management metrics including cost/performance improvement and ROI.

Develop CI Capability:

• Manage the (Lend Forward) program for the site. Train, coach and mentor CI development resources to build capability throughout.
• Development of CI capability within the site through training of all site personnel on Chromalloy CI Standards.
• Leverage CI skills and talents to assist the organization with capital requests, footprint transformations, capacity planning, and product transitions between facilities.
• Continuous assessment and recommendation to site leadership of people to receive further CI training and opportunities.
• Participation and leadership of Chromalloy Lean Leadership and Accelerator Weeks.

Critical Success Factors for This Role:

• Analytical/critical thinking, information analysis, problem resolution skills
• Ability to engage others - fostering teamwork and building strong relationships, ability to understand others, lead teams and develop people.
• Ability to influence and build relationships, motivating and inspiring others through highly effective communication and exemplary presentation skills
• Ability to achieve business results through direct and indirect interaction, delivering business results under pressure, a champion of performance improvement with a strong customer focus

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:* Dependent upon site organizational structure and size*

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Graduate degree in CI Related discipline (e.g. engineering, operations management, business, etc.)
• Continuous Improvement/Lean training and/or certification (e.g. 6-Sigma, Lean, Continuous Improvement, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience leading manufacturing or business organizations in the deployment of Continuous Improvement
• Experience in successful deployment of Lean and Six Sigma, including: Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen Facilitation, Cellular Flow, Single-Minute Exchange of Dies, Process Flow Mappi