Manufacturing Engineering - Black Belt - Our Journey to Operational Excellence

Date Posted:2021-05-14-07:00Country:United States of AmericaLocation:PW105: North Berwick Wells Road, Route 9, North Berwick, ME, 03906 USAAre you ready to make an impact?At Pratt & Whitney, MRL (Manufacturing Readiness Level) is a key component of our Operational Excellence Playbook and our quality improvement process within Operations. MRL is Pratt and Whitney’s method to industrialize new products and technologies in a standardized way that allows us to achieve quality, delivery, and cost targets. This is an exciting time to join our team and help the company meet our customer and shareholder commitments!Pratt & Whitney is seeking an experienced, proactive, and goal oriented Manufacturing Engineer - Black Belt, located in North Berwick, Maine, to lead deployment and execution of the process control sub-discipline within key operational organizations. Process Control will dramatically improve the company’s quality and delivery signature using Statistical Process Control / Six Sigma methodologies. The Black Belt will be responsible for assisting the organization in developing a vision, strategy, roadmap and supporting infrastructure for the integration of data driven decision making and Lean/Six-Sigma methods into daily business practices across operations, engineering, quality and business functions.Key Responsibilities:Develop the organization’s employees in variation reduction and process control proficiency by coaching, mentoring and coordinate execution of required training – Green Belts, Black Belts and Champions.

Work with senior management project champions to:

Support the project pipeline process to select, prioritize and scope projects to business objectives, integrated with other continuous improvement activities and ACE/CORE initiatives.

Schedule and facilitate periodic project reviews, and ensure sign off on Formal Gate reviews. Use scorecards and metrics to ensure progress.

Ensure technical quality of variation reduction and process control projects. Identify gaps in project execution and engage appropriate resources to address either knowledge gaps or execution gaps to ensure projects deliver intended results.

Lead significant projects critical to improve manufacturing process capability & quality performance.

Represent the organization in various forums related to Process Certification/Six Sigma approaches.

Develop standard work, procedures, and integrate industry-standard best practices.

Coordinate development and publishing of Success Stories.

Communicate lessons learned to:

Product development/engineering to enable implementation of design for variation (DFV) and robust design methods (DFSS).

Other operational organizations for read across implementation.

Basic Qualifications:Bachelor of Science in Engineering and/or Operations Degree or equivalent experience and 10+ years of prior relevant Program/Project Management, Operations, Engineering, Quality experience OR

Advanced Degree in a related field and 7+ years prior relevant Program/Project Management, Operations, Engineering, Quality experience.

Travel up to 30%.

U.S. Citizenship is required due to government contracts.

Preferred Qualifications:Demonstrated ProCert/Six Sigma project leadership/management/coaching experience.

Excellent knowledge of MS office computer software including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Able to use Minitab and other statistical software.

ACE/CORE/ 6 Sigma Practitioner/Professional certification.

Strong understanding of other continuous improvement skills: DFSS, Red-X, Lean, etc.

Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Proficiency in statistics, data analytics, DOE, and multivariate statistics.

Demonstrated proficiency leading and managing a large portfolio of cross functional projects.

Capable of influencing and getting cooperation and action from others.

Ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written), work and relate with people at all levels of the organization and be self-sufficient.

Effective team player, good coaching skills and can develop other co-workers.

Ability to encourage and motivate others to be successful.

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