Lean Deployment Leader
Lean Deployment Leader
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Job Description
Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry were inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. Were proud to play a part in protecting the worlds democracies. And were committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the worlds aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of 3.35 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job Summary
Joining our Continuous Improvement Team based at our East Cowes site on the Isle of Wight; the Lean Deployment Leader will report into our Site Lean Deployment Director and work across both our Civil and Defence business lines.
The Lean Deployment Leader will be a Lean Thinker with a very high level of expertise in Business Transformation. They will play a central role in developing the site into a Lean enterprise based upon GKN Aerospaces Lean Operating Model. They will lead coach and influence their sites Leadership Team ensuring rigour and fidelity to the Lean Deployment roadmap.
Job Responsibilities
- Role modelling a culture that is aligned to the GKN Aerospace Great Place to Work value drivers and Culture Principles
- Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring that the GKN Aerospace Health Safety and Environmental policies and standards are applied across GKNA and that all locations are a model of a world class healthy and safe working environment
- Driving the disciplined and rigorous deployment of the Lean Operating Model (LOM) across within their Performance Centre
- Creating and executing against the Site Lean Deployment plan and ensuring that all resources required are in place both within their site and from the CoE (e.g. Regional Lean Experts assigned as appropriate)
- Coaching their performance centres Leadership team in their deployment of the Lean Excellence Model
- Ensuring the correct allocation of resources to make the Lean deployment a success and making problems immediately visible allowing problem solving to take place
- Delivering significant improvement in People Safety Quality Delivery Cash and Cost (PSQDCC) targets meeting their sites customer and stakeholder commitments driven by significant improvements in Lean Maturity
- Developing deep Lean Expertise across their site ensuring that they become self-sufficient in running the Lean Operating Model working with the Regional Lean Expert to ensure that all staff are fully certified in Lean Thinking at the appropriate level for their role
- Complying with all legal and regulatory requirements and ensuring that staff are aware of the policies and their individual responsibilities and accountabilities
Job Qualifications
Essential:
- Significant previous experience within a relevant business role (deploying or working with a Lean operating system) preferably within an Manufacturing environment
- An understanding of Lean Thinking and Lean Leadership
- Demonstrable experience of key stakeholder management
- Experience of leading coaching and mentoring highly skilled and experienced key stakeholders
Desirable:
- A degree within Business or Business related subject
- Previous and significant experience in Lean Transformation
- A Lean Certification from a reputable certifying body or benchmark company
- Previous experience within Aerospace supply chain
- A passion for the Aerospace industry
Well offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry who knows how far you can go
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles weve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. Its a culture that won us The Best Workplace Culture Award. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
Were also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
We arethe place where human dreams plus humanendeavour shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
Employment Type
Full Time
