Senior Progress Leader in Industrial Operations F/H

Senior Progress Leader in Industrial Operations F/H (158737-145988) Malakoff, France

During her/his extensive professional experience, the leader has been assigned in several industrial operational positions and continuous improvement activities (Supply Chain management, manufacturing operations, supplier performance management, quality in operations, industrialization engineering, etc.). She/he led numerous projects, re-organizations, industrial transfers, transformation and continuous improvement activities and is capable of interacting at all levels of the « customer » organization, including with top executives to help them set their vision/strategy or to build and execute its deployment or to solve complex operational issues. She/he is able to perfectly understand the global context of her/his customer, its expectations and its needs.

Safran Quality and Progress directorate, part of Industrial, Purchasing and Performance Direction, is searching senior leaders of the Safran Progress initiative (F/M) able to support operationally any kind of Industrial activity within Safran and its tier companies based in Europe. The corporate Progress direction is integrated into the Safran Quality and Progress direction, part of the Industrial, Purchasing and Performance Direction. Its aim is to lead Safran towards the highest level of performance through operational excellence in terms of achieving best-in-class industrial performance and relentlessly satisfying all external customer expectations.

Highly experienced, the related individual will help and support internal « customers » (Safran tier companies) in their transformation plan, performance improvement initiatives, and projects in various industrial operation domains (Total quality management, Manufacturing excellence, Global Supply chain management (internal/external) & industrialization of products using APQP). She/he will help them to deploy, embark and sustain in the operational excellence journey. She/he will interact with all operational domains according to the changing nature of the topics, understanding the Safran Group Company's culture, their products, and services. The person will then interact at all levels of the company organization from top to bottom. The wide field of possible action mode goes from helping and even practicing temporarily improvement/transformation project management, problem-solving, and root cause determination, deploying change management in company organizations and at suppliers, thus demonstrating coaching and training capabilities.

The progress leader:

1. Is involved in upfront contact with all Safran companies and helps frame the field of her/his action with them.
2. Sets and leads any necessary diagnostic and preliminary activity in relation to the « customer », including root cause determination and problem-solving techniques.
3. Suggests and steers the proposed improvement working plan.
4. Leads and supports all necessary workshops and team working activities required where and when needed.
5. Sustains and supports change management activities with the corresponding customer teams.
6. Extensively uses the One Safran Group standards and methodologies to help build sustainable solutions for her/his « customers » and is consequently deeply involved in methodologies evolution.
7. Acts as a coach and sometimes as the initial project leader with the aim to transfer the content and the knowledge.
8. May also organize and lead training sessions as a trainer, cascading Safran training content from Safran University.

Minimum Requirements:

Graduated Engineer with at least 15-20 years demonstrated experience in managing Total quality in supply chain or industrial operations and/or through consulting activities in related domains, preferably in the Aerospace industry but other industrial domains might be considered (Automotive, train, high technology, and complex engineered products).

- A good knowledge of the MRP2 processes, supply chain referential, and associated tools (ERP systems) is a “must”; an APICS certification or equivalent will be a plus.

- A good knowledge of the APQP referential and the industrialization of engineered products.

- Robust and strong references in managing performance improvement within organizations by mastering lean transformation techniques and management, being knowledgeable of the digital evolution of means (e.g., master black belt profile).

- Mastering of root cause determination and problem resolution techniques (e.g., 8D/9S, DMAIC, etc.).

- Robust knowledge of project management practices allowing to structure company projects from upfront framing until realization.

- Ability to act as an effective project leader over major complex projects.

- Ability to animate and lead all kinds of team activities (workshops, working teams, trainings, etc.), sometimes remotely.

Following skills and competences are required additionally to previously described technical skills:

1. Listening, analyzing, and re-questioning capabilities up to the final structuration and final synthesis capacity.
2. Able to positively challenge at all levels from top executives to operators.
3. Interpersonal strong capacities and relationship abilities.
4. Team working and mindset.
5. Ability to adapt to any kind of situation, including in doing things her/himself.
6. Convincing strengths.
7. Individual working structuration and organization using robust methods (Lean 6 sigma & others).
8. Taste for digital and able to master main IS office systems including remote community sharing tools.