Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BAE Systems is a defense, aerospace, and security company providing products and services for air, land, and naval forces. The company is seeking a principal-level Continuous Improvement Subject Matter Expert to lead business transformation initiatives, facilitate change management, develop training programs, and drive structured problem solving across its operations centers.
Responsibilities
- Implement a rolling top issues management strategy leveraging Red X, lean and six-sigma projects aligned with organizational objectives
- Lead teams to solve critical, urgent, or chronic technical problems, working closely with manufacturing, engineering, and supplier quality teams
- Facilitate and coach end-to-end Red X, lean and six sigma transformation projects, including planning, implementation, and evaluation phases
- Be accountable for project identification, prioritization, and achievement
- Act as a change agent to foster a culture of continuous improvement within the organization
- Provide guidance and support to stakeholders at all levels to ensure buy-in and successful implementation of lean initiatives
- Support training programs on Red X, Critical Thinking (Is, Is-Not Analysis), lean principles, tools, and techniques to build capability and empower associates to drive improvement at all levels of the organization
- Coach and develop individuals to Green Belt and Black Belt proficiency with Red X, Critical Thinking, and lean methods
- Help establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of CI initiatives
- Monitor progress and track performance metrics
- Apply Project Management Tools to facilitate all projects within scope (Plant / Department or Area) while ensuring timeline and target accomplishment (which includes savings or additional impact calculation and approvals, projects documentation and 12 months tracking for sustainability)
- Stay abreast of industry best practices, emerging trends, and new technologies related to structured root cause, lean methodologies and continuous improvement
- Apply insights to refine existing processes and drive innovation within the organization
- Continuously focus on capabilities development and certifications related to CI knowledge and application as helping the development of others. Special focus on peers in Quality, Operations, Manufacturing, and Engineering
Skills
- Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering or Science or related discipline with eight years of related experience, or the overall equivalent
- Shainin Red X certification. Minimum Journeyman
- Subject Matter Expertise in Red X, Lean and Continuous Improvement concepts, systems, methodologies and tools
- Demonstrated experience leading complex issues and facilitating casual analysis tools to identify true root cause
- Experience with Quality, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Mechanical engineering departments and activities
- Proven Project Management skills
- Requires innovative problem solving experience with Shainin, A3, 8D, PDCA, 6 Sigma, etc., and systematic thinking
- Highly effective communicator both written and spoken
- Training experience, both in one-on-one and group settings
- Experience presenting material and providing mentoring and coaching
- Pro-active experience influencing, directing, guiding, and driving change
- Liaison communication skills, in order to, interface with management and the customer pertaining to product and process issues
- Ability to work across multiple programs, system areas, and product development phases simultaneously
- Experience with APQP Core Tools
- Product life-cycle and systems understanding
- Must be comfortable in an operations environment, working in and around military vehicles
- Prior exposure working with fully integrated systems
- Proficient with MS Office applications, Minitab, Relyence or similar applications
- Must be able to travel up to 75% in support of our manufacturing sites in Aiken, South Carolina and Anniston, Alabama
- Typically a Bachelor's Degree and 8 years work experience or equivalent experience
- Defense contractor experience
- Knowledgeable in contractual compliance and interpretation
- Ability to work with both with a mentor and independently
- Computer tools experience (Oracle, TIPQA, etc)
- Practical application of Advanced Product Quality Planning (via Core Quality Tools)
- Toyota Production System exposure
- Lean Transformation experience
- Kaizen Facilitator
- Lean Six Sigma
- Critical Thinking (Is, Is-Not Analysis)
- Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical Engineer
Benefits
- Full-time remote work, with candidates required to be based within a reasonable commuting distance of a main CMS site
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