Lean Deployment Leader

6 days ago

East Cowes, United Kingdom GKN Aerospace Full time

**About GKN Aerospace**:
A Truly Global Business

Every day, around the world, we help aircrafts fly further, faster and greener. We’re the world’s leading tier one aerospace supplier of systems and components. With over 15,000 employees across 41 manufacturing sites in 13 countries serving over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers with sales of £2.8bn.

Together as “one GKN” we’re moving our business and industry forward developing technologies that rapidly decarbonise aircraft, and innovating to help build a new generation of planes that produce zero emissions. We’re putting sustainability at the heart of what we do; driving our objective to becoming a net zero greenhouse gas emissions business before 2050

Making a Difference

It’s great to know you’re making a difference to the future of aviation Whatever part you play you’ll be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers.

Sitting across our three business lines; Civil, Defence and Engines at our East Cowes manufacturing plants you’ll do just that. Established in 1901, one of our older production sites with a workforce of circa 800 employees. Our East Cowes plants, Isle of Wight are where we design, manufacture, test and repair high performance structures and systems. We have two facilities on the Island; Falcon Yard, Ferry Road and Osborne Site, Saunders Way. Both locations employ the company’s distinct competencies in major assemblies and composite structures for the global aerospace market. Our customer base includes Airbus, Astronics, BAE Systems, Boeing, Bombardier Aerospace, Cessna, Cobham, Honeywell, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, Rolls Royce and Triumph.

**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 Leader 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 Aerospace’s Lean Operating Model. They will lead, coach and influence their site’s Leadership Team, ensuring rigour and fidelity to the Lean Deployment roadmap.

**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 site’s 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

**How You'll Contribute**:
To help us make a difference, you’ll bring your passion and expertise/ talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:
Essential:

- 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:

- 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

We are looking for people who want to make a difference, talented members with the skills and passions to become the best of the future in what they do. The Lean Deployment Leader will have good communication skill

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