Continuous Improvement Specialist

Who YOU are and what You can become: 
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for driving operational excellence and solving complex problems? As our Continuous Improvement Specialist, you’ll lead high-impact projects that streamline processes, boost quality, and enhance customer satisfaction across departments. In this influential role, you’ll collaborate with key stakeholders to turn data into action, build consensus for change, and deliver measurable business results. If you thrive on turning challenges into opportunities for innovation, this is your chance to make a lasting impact.
 
Who WE are and where WE are going:   

ST Engineering Aerospace is located at Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, FL, at the Pensacola International Airport. We are a renowned provider of aircraft maintenance and modification (AMM) services for commercial airlines and air freight operators. We meet our customers' requirements by providing a full spectrum of high-quality, reliable, and timely AMM and engineering solutions. We have the know-how and experience to comprehensively manage complex projects, ensuring our customers' aircraft operate safely and efficiently. 

What YOU will do:  

You will partner with team members across the various departments to provide project leadership and implementation for improvement projects. You will be responsible for consulting, organizing, leading, and facilitating cross functional initiatives including mapping business processes, gathering and analyzing process data to identify root causes to develop solutions to improve and enable measurable results in process efficiency, customer satisfaction, product quality and financial savings. 

In This Role YOU will:

1.  Track the implementation, progress, and general status of continuous improvement project.
2.  Develop metrics that provide data to quantify the results of continuous improvement projects.
3. Continuous improvement plans, while working in tandem with the respective process owners and other stakeholders.
4. Communicate and build consensus on continuous improvement projects by understanding the resistance expected and assessing the best ways to implement the planned change.
5. Articulate the vision for improvement projects, inspire trust, and engender support for improvement projects.
6. You may perform other functions as directed by the Continuous Improvement Supervisor and/or The Continuous Improvement and Methods Engineering Manager.

SUPERVISION: The incumbent normally performs the duty assignment at his or her discretion and is limited only by policies set by administrative or legislative authority.  Total end results determine the effectiveness of job performance.

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS: A strong level of interpersonal skills is required to maintain an effective relationship among employees, various departments, management, and the public.

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: Must be able to cope with stress and mental exhaustion due to the pressures of accomplishing set goals, meeting short deadlines, maintaining numerous projects simultaneously, employee confrontations and long work hours.

What YOU Need

• Within 18 months of acquiring a college degree, an Engineering Degree is preferred.  (Work experience may be considered in lieu of a college degree.)
• Ability to think logically and systematically to improve and create systems to solve problems.
• Knowledge of basic quality and project management tools.
• Knowledge in the use of lean tools and methodologies including Cycle-time Reduction/Business Process Re-engineering, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Visual Management, Waste Reduction, Poka-Yoke, Kaizen, and Kanban.
• Technical knowledge, including programming for Excel, Visio, Access, drafting applications, etc.
•  Possess a sense of urgency, great attitude and work ethic and must be able to get things done without delays.
• Ability to dispassionately pierce the facts of a matter without getting sidetracked by personal and non-objective concerns or issues.
• Familiar in techniques and tools for measuring project success, and the use of statistical techniques to analyze data to generate useful information a plus.

YOU get more than Just compensation with US:  
As part of the ST Engineering family, you will be treated like family. We offer a great range of benefits that our employees value and help make ST Engineering the best place to learn and work. Our benefits reflect our commitment to attract, engage and retain the most talented people and offer a diverse selection of benefits to suit you and your family.

Some of the benefits we offer are listed below:

• Medical Benefits
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• 401k with Employer match
• PTO
• Company provided uniforms
• 6 Nationally recognized holidays
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Company sponsored events throughout the year

Background and Drug Screening Requirements-

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and secure workplace, successful completion of a background check and drug screening is a mandatory condition for employment. All offers of employment are contingent upon satisfactory results from these screenings.

Equal Opportunity -

It takes diverse talent to solve real-world problems. ST Engineering is committed to building a workplace community where inclusion is valued, and everyone feels welcomed. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. So, bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s through our differences that innovative changes are made.

Reasonable Accommodations –

ST Engineering is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please contact our Talent Strategies team at 1-571-771-0168, or by email at stena.careers@stengg.us.