Job Description

POWERED BY TEAMWORK. Are you ready to be part of a team that drives big ideas and even bigger wins? At Safran, we believe in the power of both collaboration and individual contributions. We understand that it takes diverse perspectives, problem-solving skills, dependability, and trust to push each other forward and achieve great success. For us, working here is more than just a job; it's a passion. There's the unique opportunity to lead the way in aerospace and defense and contribute to creating a safer and more sustainable world.

Safran Cabin Materials located in Marysville, WA is recruiting for a:

Continuous Improvement Engineer 1

This position will drive sustained improvements across production processes, ensuring continuous improvement in quality, efficiency and cost control. Focus on employee engagement and operational excellence within the team. Support strategic goals to improve productivity metrics, enhance cross-functional collaboration and align production capabilities with lean manufacturing and waste reduction objectives.

This professional works actively on Kaizen events/One Safran wave, give support in operations and promote lean culture in the company, also with the use of lean tools helps the organization to development or deploy 5S's program, participative innovation and layout changes; Maintains a continuous learning environment with production and support functions.

Job duties include but are not limited to:
Adheres to safe work practices and contributes to the evolution of the health, safety, and environmental program and culture.
Supports the site's projects roadmap implementation aligned with Hoshin Plan.
Plans and leads basic Lean Sigma projects (Kaizen Events/ One Safran).
Participates in the implementation of advance lean Methodologies (VSM, SMED, TPM & DMAIC).
Develop process mapping to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement trough business.
Support development of Lean six sigma methodologies by eliminating production wastes.
Sustains the QRQC program. Evaluates business metrics accuracy.
Promote & uses problem-solving methodologies (Analytical/negotiation skills) develop innovative solutions and pursue Quality Improvements.
Assists with workstation design, Standard Work, line balancing, and layout improvements.
Assists and pursue the deployment and sustainment of 5S's methodology.
Support timely internal follow up reports (CI progress or management meetings).
Serves as instructor for basic courses that teaches personnel how to assess, identify and improve their own needs and opportunities.
Fosters the Lean Sigma culture within the organization.
Sustains, drives, and promotes the Employee Suggestion Program.
Keeps focus in Best Practices sharing and implementation.
Prepare presentations to review status of projects as appropriate.
Regular, predictable attendance is required.
Other duties could be assigned.

Complementary Description

Safran Cabin headquarters are in Huntington Beach, California, with a global presence of over 11,000 employees at 36 sites. Site locations are in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Germany, France, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Tunisia and Thailand. Safran Cabin serves over 400 airlines and leasing companies globally and delivers to all airframe OEM manufacturers with a heritage spanning over 80 years in the industry.

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• Your Career: Safran is committed to providing internal mobility to our employees. We operate globally so the sky is the limit of where your Safran journey can take you.
• Your Development: Safran employees have free access to Safran University courses and external tuition reimbursement for approved programs or certifications.
• Your Benefits: Our suite of comprehensive benefits include health care (medical, dental and vision), life insurance, 401(k) savings plans with company match, paid time off, Safran Perks with BenefitHub – Employee Discounts & Rewards Marketplace for consumer products/services and more!

Job Requirements

At Safran Cabin, diversity & inclusion is a source of richness that adds quality of life, performance, and innovation. We welcome diverse contributions and provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability/medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic characteristics or information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Across all team members, we are looking for the following attributes:
• Team oriented
• Process focused
• Open & honest communication
• Quality minded
• Ability to persevere and honor commitments
• Recognizes success
• Executes with urgency
• Creates solutions
• Customer focused in everything we do

Job Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing or related discipline.
Lean Manufacturing and Six-Sigma methodologies training.
Minimum of 3+ years of experience in manufacturing processes, a must.
Minimum of 3+ years experience in Continuous Improvement, preferred.
Experience in Aerospace or a related industry is desired.
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with internal and external customers.
Capable of managing large amounts of data and multiple tasks.
Ability to build strategic working relationships at all levels of the organization.
Strong ability to analyze various options to determine best solution for the organization.
Self-starter who can thrive in a dynamic team environment and produce results with minimal management guidance.
Strong proficiency in the use of common software packages including MS Office suite - Word, Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint and Visio.
Competency in performing data analysis through data business analytics services (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
Problem solving skills - ability to analyze a problem and determine if driven by design, supplier or other factors in a timely fashion.
Capacity to operate in a pluri-disciplinary, inter-cultural and international environment.
Qualities in interpersonal relationship and in kindly challenging the organizations.
Must have excellent technical writing, oral communication, and presentation skills.
Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision.
Capacity to do benchmarking.
Additional Preferred Skills: (not required)
Lean Sigma Green belt certification.

The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a
listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job, rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

Safran Cabin Materials requires a criminal background check and drug screen to be completed and passed for all positions.