Senior Continuous Improvement Leader

Overview

Senior Continuous Improvement Leader – Gloucester site. Safran Landing Systems is a global leader in aircraft landing and braking systems across commercial, military, and defence fleets. We design, engineer, manufacture, and provide maintenance across the product lifecycle. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and equitable employment practices. We are seeking a Senior Continuous Improvement Leader to join our Quality team at the Gloucester site to drive operational excellence and lead strategic improvement initiatives.

• Facilitate creation of business functions' strategic deployment plans.
• Lead and support definition of business functions' improvement plans and associated CI support.
• Lead and support single or cross-functional business improvement projects across the organisation.
• Lead and support improvement-related events including One Safran, Kaizen, problem solving workshops, and Business Process Re-engineering.
• Act as a CI Business Focal for one or more areas across the organisation.
• Act as a referent for a number of internal CI processes.
• Oversee improvement activities ensuring effective utilisation of the Lean-Sigma toolset and compliance with Safran standards.
• Oversee activities relating to employee engagement and empowerment in improvement, ensuring compliance with Safran standards.

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification with proven experience leading complex business improvement and change initiatives.
• Strong experience applying and coaching on Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across various functions and levels.

• Competitive salary, annual profit share bonus and pay review.
• 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy/sell).
• Up to 8% employer-matched pension scheme and life assurance.
• Health cash plan, cycle and tech purchase schemes.
• Professional development, ongoing training, mentoring.
• Onsite amenities: parking, restaurant, bicycle storage, showers.
• Family-friendly and accessible workplace policies.
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives and employee groups (e.g., Women at Safran, Diversity at Safran, STEM ambassadors, Employee Forum, and wellbeing programs).