Job Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in the Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, or Design or equivalent field of study required.
- 3 years of experience in Lean/Continuous Improvement role in a manufacturing/industrial environment required.
- Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher required.
- U.S. Person per ITAR regulations to comply with export compliance and site SSA requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong proven experience using Six Sigma tools and techniques to assign team tasks and uses the stages of Six Sigma or DMAIC to complete process improvement projects
- Proven experience applying Lean Manufacturing principles to remove process steps that provide no value to the customer and reduce waste.
- Strong desire for problem solving manufacturing production
- Aerospace industry experience highly preferred.
- Knowledge and/or experience of lean production tools.
- Strong communication, teaching and coaching skills.
- Corporate desktop environment such as Microsoft Office suite and/or equivalent.
- Project Management experience.
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.
We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.