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As our Senior Continuous Improvement Specialist you will have the opportunity to provide leadership and implementation of assigned continuous improvement activities. This is a proactive, results oriented, hands on role to develop and lead a culture of continuous improvement, continuous improvement of our business performance, and ensure alignment throughout the business to goals and objectives. In this role, you will: Be expected to work in accordance with our core values: Safety, Accountability, Integrity, Respect, Passion and innovation. The role of the Senior CI Specialist is to enable and support in the following areas: Lead Improvement Culture: * Ensure all improvements are focused on a safety first mentality. * Develop formal training for others on lean and six sigma tools and principles. * Train - trainers in lean and six sigma tools and principles. * Coach others on lean and six sigma principles, projects, and tools. * Coach - coaches on effective coaching and mentoring techniques. * Facilitates kaizen throughout the business. * Empower and involve everyone in the continuous improvement journey. * Develop systems and mechanisms for idea capture, facilitate suggestions for improvement, recognize team members for their improvements. * Ensure employee recognition is systemic in the organization. Continuously Improve our business performance: * Leader of problem solving tools and techniques to drive hands on problem solving activities (A3, DMAIC, PDCA, data analysis * Lead cross functional teams in improvement events. * Drive implementation of continuous improvement tools and systems. * Create documentation, charts, labels to support visual factory efforts. * Deliver cost savings projects to achieve site growth and productivity improvements. * Support the achievement and documentation of all site growth and productivity requirements. * Support development of project funnel to capture future opportunities and ensure moving forward in the CI journey. * Drive 5S initiatives throughout the site, own sustainment and standardization of 5S efforts. * Ensure standard work is developed and all processes in the site have and are working to standard work. * Develop and deploy layered audit process for all standard work. * Document and share best practices with other Albany sites. Align teams to strategic priorities: * Support hoshin working and reporting sessions. * Support regular report out activities on continuous improvement projects. * Assist in development of the annual and long term CI roadmap. * Effectively communicate strategic priorities with cross functional teams. * Develop and standardize sustainable improvement systems. * Lead the development of KPI's for daily performance management connected with site strategy. * Special projects and miscellaneous duties, as needed or assigned Supervisory responsibility: No Working Conditions: Indirect Labor: Office environment, moderate to quiet noise and not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions. Some travel <10% may be required. Physical requirements: * Occasionally positions self to move an office or production item. * Frequently move about the production floor and office area to attend meetings or trainings * Must be able to remain in a stationary position up to 75% of the time * Frequently operates a computer, enters data into systems, verifies information, etc. Day Monday - Friday 7:00 am - 3:30

Qualifications: * Bachelors Degree preferred, or 4 years direct equivalent experience * 4 Years of manufacturing or related experience * Aerospace or regulated manufacturing experience preferred * Six Sigma Black Belt required or in progress * Ability to lead project based activities with minimal... For full info follow appl ication link.

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