Lean Deployment Leader

GKN Aerospace; East Cowes; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leader in aerospace innovation in East Cowes seeks a Lean Deployment Leader to drive Lean transformations across their manufacturing site. This role involves coaching leadership teams, implementing Lean practices, and ensuring a high level of safety and quality. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Lean methodologies and stakeholder management, with a degree in business or a related field being desirable.

Qualifications

• Significant previous experience in a relevant business role, preferably within Manufacturing.
• Understanding of Lean Thinking and Lean Leadership.
• Experience of leading and coaching skilled stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Role modelling a culture aligned to company value drivers.
• Driving the deployment of Lean Operating Model across the site.
• Coaching Leadership team in Lean Excellence Model.

Skills

Lean Thinking

Stakeholder Management

Coaching

Education

Degree in Business or related subject

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, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 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 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.

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 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

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

We’ll 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 we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s 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.

We’re 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.

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