Lean Sigma Black Belt

Lean Sigma Black Belt Job Description

As a member of the Safran Seats business, you play a major role in teamwork that provides over one million seats to major airlines worldwide. Our commitment to superior quality, comfort and innovation ensures that you can take pride in doing meaningful work that supports the needs of passengers and crews alike. No matter your role, you connect and collaborate with your fellow team members to bring state‑of‑the‑art, high value‑added solutions to market.

Because we are one of the few original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to offer an all‑inclusive range of passenger seats for commercial aircraft, you will do impressive work that supports passengers in a variety of seating options, from economy to first class.

The SSUSA Lean Sigma Black Belt will be responsible for supporting the expansion of the use of Lean tools and concepts in how SSUSA performs all activities, ranging from simple daily tasks to process improvement to management practices. This includes support of development and deployment of standard practices across SSUSA for the deployment of Lean Sigma tools and concepts into the SSUSA culture.

The Lean Sigma Black Belt will help SSUSA leadership teams learn how to utilize Lean Sigma tools and concepts to manage and improve the business. The primary activities will be coaching, teaching, and projects or Kaizen facilitation so team members may learn the concepts “hands‑on”. Works under general supervision of the Continuous Improvement Manager of SSUSA and collaborates with other members of the SSUSA CI team, Seats and Group Safran+ and other members of the Safran Lean Sigma community.

• Support deployment and use of the Lean Sigma tools across SSUSA.
• Facilitate One Safran Workshops across SSUSA.
• Plan and lead SSUSA‑level Lean Sigma projects that will contribute to increase company competitiveness.
• Ensure CI projects are on schedule and customer expectations are met.
• Make presentations to review status of projects as required.
• Provide timely internal reports to management (bi‑weekly presentations, monthly project reports, quarterly reports).
• Mentor Lean Sigma Green Belts to increase autonomy on the application of Lean sigma methodologies for successful improvement projects.
• Deliver Lean Sigma Green Belt training to Safran employees.
• Serve as instructor of CI courses that teach personnel how to assess, identify and improve their own needs.
• Develop and document best practices as standard work.
• Provide benchmarking and best practice research.
• Share best practices with CI department team members.
• Implement and make sure teams implement measures of health, safety and environment necessary to keep the physical integrity of the team.
• Optimize overall product flow and layout of the site.

A. Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in engineering or business administration.
• Associate’s degree plus 3 years relevant work experience.
• 6 years directly related work experience.

B. Work Experience – Technical Knowledge

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience and minimum of 3 years with process improvement experience.
• Lean training from the Shingo Institute, Shingijutsu or other recognized program.
• Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certification from a recognized institution.
• Must pursue One Safran referent accreditation.

C. Professional Skills

• Excellent knowledge of Lean Sigma, process improvement and problem‑solving methodologies.
• Expertise within functional areas of Continuous Improvement (at least one of the following fields):
  Office Lean, Training of Lean Sigma, Engineering Lean Sigma/Continuous Improvement (DFLSS, DFMA, VAVE, etc.), Supply Chain/Fabrication Lean Sigma/Continuous Improvement, Quality/Manufacturing Lean Sigma/Continuous Improvement.
• Strong communication, facilitation, training and leadership skills.
• Ability to influence all levels of the organization without direct authority.
• Proven ownership and execution of Continuous improvement projects that generate bottom line results.
• Consistent focus on safety, 5S, standard work and problem solving throughout value stream.
• Strong English speaking…