Continuous Improvement Lead
Safran Seats
Cwmbran, Wales
Skills: Continuous improvement / Quality / Lead / Project management / Six sigma
Looking after the people who make Safran great is our priority. We offer a range of flexible benefits designed to support you—both in and out of work, including:
- Early finish on Fridays
- Competitive salary and annual bonus and pay review
- 25 days' holiday + bank holidays (option to buy/sell)
- Strong Pension scheme and life assurance
- Professional development, ongoing training, mentoring
- Onsite amenities: parking, restaurant, bicycle storage, showers
- Family-friendly and accessible workplace policies
Safran – Here, we craft excellence together.
At Safran, excellence is a journey – and we'd love you to be a part of it. As a trusted global leader in aerospace, defence, and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation, and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future where we can all succeed together through a shared vision
Your Role
As Continuous Improvement Lead, you'll be responsible for leading and coaching the organisation in driving an effective improvement journey. You'll actively lead teams and engage business leaders to analyse performance, determine processes and tools, and drive the projects and governance to implement tangible improvements.
You'll become a change agent with the courage to champion improvement within the business with the ability to motivate others to achieve results.
Key responsibilities:
Continuous Improvement (CI):
- Lead project teams to deliver business improvements through the deployment of tool
- Work with business leaders to undertake continual analysis of our operations, to expose opportunities for change & improvement
- Drive continuous improvement within the business and identify opportunities for improvement including deployment of Balanced scorecard, One Safran, Customer Improvement projects, Lean Journey & QRQC
- Analyse and monitor financial and customer benefits throughout the life of improvement projects
Problem Solving Capability:
- Work with the Director of CI to determine the tools required & scope of CI Training across the business
- Create, organise and deliver training to the targeted scope
- Coach Project Sponsors and Leaders to enable the delivery of successful project implementation
Drive Plant / Business Unit Improvement Workstreams:
- Lead teams in analysing data and determining the key activities that will reduce the defects or increase flow
- Use of Value-Stream Mapping to determine production bottle necks and leading the team to address the issues found
- Communicate the progress to both internal and external customers and influence the leadership team to ensure support to drive workstreams to closure
- Accountable for governance of improvement projects and activities
