Sr. Operational Excellence Leader - Avenza

Job Description Summary

The Operations Excellence Leader is a key leadership role that will enable shops in the Aero Alliance to strive towards Best in Class Lean Concepts. This leader will utilize their business leadership experience to drive & influence the shops leadership/stakeholders towards Shop Lean & operational excellence. This is a critical role in the Aero Alliance as it connects and coordinated across multiple functions... Safety, Quality, Materials, Finance, and Customers. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving projects/process improvement to ensure that our processes are in line with the Operational Goals. Driving Hoshin Kanri breakthroughs maximizing process optimization, standardization, TAT stability as well as driving a cultural change around 5S and Continual Improvement. Minimize risk of defects by utilizing data and process improvements. Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services. Utilizes understanding of industry trends to inform decision making process.

• Drive all aspects of standardization and shop operations improvements, working with all of the Aero Repair Shops to drive the Aviation standard and support ongoing improvement actions. This person will need to manage multiple interfaces and be able to deliver in a very challenging environment
• Standardize ways of working across all shops and functions
• Standardize reporting including Incoming, Inspection and Final reports
• Drive simplified Shop Routings and digitize where possible
• Standardize and simplify shops operating mechanisms utilizing lean concepts
• Drive development of key IT solutions Work with the shops to implement operational best practices across all gates
• Define, prioritize, direct & track progress on the Lean journey... e.g. 5 S, layout and flow across all of the shops
• Create and own the operating mechanisms for the Operations team
• Work with the Lean team to help define strategy for becoming more mature in lean concepts
• Work with key functional leaders across the network to drive an aligned continuous improvement culture
• Drive quality continuous improvement activities at a global or local level including methods, tools, roadmap systems, elaboration, and deployment. Manage industrial improvement projects including process improvement, revamp-up or extension, localization of manufacturing activities, etc.
• Developing expertise within function. Growing reputation within the organization. Includes roles that are experts in their discipline, providing professional or thought leadership. Influences quality improvements by linking with other functions of the organization.
• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. e.g. ARMS / Oracle. Presents business solutions to leaders in functional area. Communicates complex messages and negotiates internally with others to adopt a different point of view. Influences peers to act and may negotiate with external partners, vendors, or customers.
• Has major influence on shop operations with a continual focus on the wing to wing needs of the Aero Alliance.
• Leads others to find creative solutions to address complex problems that may impact the organization. Has the ability to evaluate quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis. Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision. Coordinate metric standardization across the Repair network, including weekly risk assessment and drive actions to proactively work on level loading the shops where possible.

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent experience
• Proven related working operational experience
• Experience in leading in a matrix environment
• Experience in Planning and/or Project Management
• Ability and willingness to travel, both domestically and internationally, up to 25% of the time and must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies

• Master's Degree in Business or advanced degree, or equivalent experience
• Experience in a Global Function such as Engine Overhaul Operations, Sourcing, Engineering, Quality or Supply Chain
• Capability and experience to work with local and remote resources, merging people from different locations as needed to close complex projects in due time
• Experience with maintaining cross functional risk management processes.
• Proven track record of delivery in a challenging role
• Ability to lead, coach, mentor and work effectively across functions whilst leading in a matrix environment.
• Proven Business leadership experience
• Ability to lead, coach & mentor employees across the various businesses at all levels
• Exposure to financial measurements and accounting principles in a manufacturing environment
• Strong team player with high energy
• Knowledgeable of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP)
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• A drive and desire to succeed