Central Improver Black Belt (m/f/d) ArianeGroup

Background:

ArianeGroup offers a unique environment that allows people to develop their careers in the Space and Defense industry, with a variety of jobs, missions and ambitious projects to lead. Our company is looking for profiles that have the desire and ability to manage and develop our business, according to our operating methods and our values on all our sites. Mobility is a crucial element of integration and career management at ArianeGroup. Stability and mobility are complementary and provide the necessary skills to manage our programs.

ENVIRONMENTAL AND JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Continuous Improvement team offers you a unique experience within a multi-site cross-functional team:

Support ArianeGroup's transformation by anchoring the culture of excellence,
Deploy Lean Sigma, Change Management, etc.,
Develop your leadership,
Strengthening the network of Improvers...
Complete your skills with a Black Belt certification

Are you attracted to this challenge? You are already Black Belt or Green Belt, so join our dynamic team and become Central Improver!

MISSIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your mission is 100% dedicated to continuous improvement, transformation and currency exchange in order to strengthen ArianeGroup's performance.

You will accompany the transformation of the company in accordance with its strategy and in particular the development of ArianeGroup towards operational excellence through the culture of continuous improvement, based on the principles of LEAN and agility, and Leadership Model .

In this context, your main activities will be to:

Manage (minimum 50% of the activity) cross-functional and/or local improvement projects in the sectors, in line with ArianeGroup's strategy, with the objective of improving operational performance, using the most relevant methods you have learned,
Support improvement projects by providing methodoligic support to the pilot and the project team
Coach the Green Belts (supervise their project, develop their methodological and leadership skills to lead them to certification),
Deliver White Belt and Lean Manager Belt training, help create new training and update existing training
Lead change management at the level of both employees and managers,
Develop the mindset of continuous improvement, challenge and identify areas for improvement on the shopfloor,
Proactively participate in the Belts network
Contribute to the Participative Initiatives process by supporting the process including the collection of initiatives
Support managers and their teams in their mission to drive continuous improvement: support for the implementation/ improvement of performance routines and improvement plan
Lead / contribute to the definition and implementation of standards (operational excellence and/or ArianeGroup toolkit)
Occasionally lead problem resolutions

The assignment may be completed on a case-by-case basis depending on ArianeGroup's improvement policy and/or the scope concerned.

Some concrete examples of Black Belt activities:

Lead a project to reduce the number, and lead time of anomaly treatment for mechanical parts with surface treatment or to improve the training attendance rate
At the request of a manager, deploy operational excellence by leading a 5S working group or by deploying/improving a performance management routine such as QRQC or LPM
Support a management, a centre in the implementation of its improvement plan based on company guidelines, performance analysis and the needs of teams

Update the white belt training support (1st level of training in improvement) by leading a working group bringing together Black Belts from all AG sites and allowing to share their feedback
Support change management with the deployment of a new ERP at all sites and with all relevant departments

Your activities will interface mainly with the program and production departments (JZIA) or the engineering teams and support functions (HR, Facility Management, Purchasing, Finance,...) (JZIB), trans-sites or multi-organisation multi-country.

SKILLS SOUGHT:

Fluent English: read, written, spoken.

Be certified:

• Green Belt at least, in this case you can start the course certifying Black Belt
• or Black Belt

Adhere to and apply the principles of the Arianegroup model leadership: collaboration, delegation, spirit of conquest, simplicity,...

Resolution of moderate to complex issues

Risk management

Project management

ArianeGroup est convaincu que la diversité renforce l'innovation et la collaboration.
Nous accueillons toutes les candidatures et sommes engagés dans le développement d'un environnement de travail inclusif.
Nos critères de sélection sont basés sur les compétences et expériences professionnelles exclusivement.