Specialist, Continuous Improvement (20 Month Contract)

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do.

Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success.

Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs.

The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

9 / 80 work schedule available for most U.S. and Canada employees, effective October 24, 2022.

Essential Responsibilities

Work across functional disciplines of the organization; focusing on the continuous improvement culture, operational excellence, and continually enhancing our improvement tool sets and methodologies.

The ideal candidate is passionate about leading change, driving results, and promoting a culture of improvement.

• Continuous Improvement Programs : Lead Gemba and 6S maturity assessment, training, and improvements across the site.
• Operational Excellence : Support teams in operational excellence journey through people engagement, facilitation of kaizen, and driving customer focus.
• Process Analysis : Facilitate the collection, analysis and visualisation of existing process data aligned with the customer value stream to improve safety, quality, and cost.
• Lean : Application of lean tools to eliminate waste and reduce process variation with project teams.
• Project Coordination : Engage cross-functional teams in planning, execution, and monitoring of improvement projects, ensuring timely completion and validated attainment of objectives.
• Change Management : Ensure successful adoption of change through effective management of the human side of change.
• Training, Development and Learning : Support and provide training of lean tools and methodologies, and identify self-development opportunities.
• Contribute to Culture : Stay above the line while working with complex changes and conflict. Engage and contribute to the continuous improvement mindset.
• Digital Transformation : Provide fresh perspective on current CI processes, offering automation solutions to reduce teams’ administrative duties.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in manufacturing, manufacturing engineering or process development
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Lean Expert certificate an asset, demonstration of lean principles required
• 2+ years’ experience in CI
• Experienced in working with cross-organizational teams

Preferred Additional Skills

• This position requires a self-starter with an engaging style
• This position requires an accountable individual
• Utilize solid influencing and facilitation skills who will develop relationships and build on a collaborative work environment
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving and ability to coach others in the methodology
• Demonstrated working knowledge with Lean tools
• Planning and time management
• Develop and continuously improve development practices based on industry best practices and internal teams’ experience and learning
• Ability to work effectively and facilitate functional teams
• Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills
• Strong verbal and written communication and organizational skills
• Action oriented and ability to make decisions
• Data query and collection an asset
• Data visualization an asset
30+ days ago