Continuous Improvement Manager, Black Belt, Space Industry

• Lead Lean Six Sigma projects: drive high-impact business and operational improvement and transformation initiatives.
• Support industrial ramp-up: support strategic programs such as Ariane 6 and Prometheus in achieving their quality (Right First Time), schedule (adherence to the production plan) and cost (recurring costs) objectives.
• Diagnose flow issues, efficiency losses and process variability.
• Deploy operational excellence standards.
• Anchor improvement through change management: ensure performance gains are sustained over time.

Requirements

• Master Black Belt Lean Six Sigma certification or degree required (DMAIC, Kaizen, VSM, SMED, TOC, QRQC, statistical inference, DOE, SPC, …)
• Minimum 8 years' experience in a continuous improvement lead role or similar, with a portfolio of at least 20 significant projects.
• Field-oriented: able to establish trusted relationships with operations to deliver sustainable results.
• IT: Minitab, JASP, SAP, Teamcenter, Confluence/JIRA.
• Significant experience in industrial environments and in new product/system development.
• Language skills: professional fluent English.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Lean Six Sigma methodologies, including Master Black Belt certification, to lead high-impact operational improvement projects. Proven ability to drive change management and establish trusted relationships in industrial environments to achieve quality, schedule, and cost objectives.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Master Black Belt Lean Six Sigma Certification
• Continuous Improvement Leadership
• Minitab
• Statistical Inference
• Professional Fluent English

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Lean Six Sigma
• DMAIC
• Kaizen
• Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
• Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
• Theory of Constraints (TOC)
• Quick Response Quality Control (QRQC)
• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Operational Excellence

Soft Skills

• Change Management
• Relationship Building
• Field Orientation

Certifications & Qualifications

• Master Black Belt Lean Six Sigma

Industry Keywords

• Continuous Improvement
• Industrial Environments
• New Product Development
• Operational Improvement
• Performance Gains

Tools & Technologies

• Minitab
• JASP
• SAP
• Teamcenter
• Confluence
• JIRA