Continuous Improvement Manager

Barnes Aerospace Singapore, with legal entity name - Windsor Airmotive Asia Pte Ltd in the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), is a leading provider of Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) services and spare parts for many of the world's major turbine engine manufacturers, airline operators, and third-party providers. The Barnes Aerospace Singapore OEM Division is a world-class provider for Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), specializing in precision stamped assemblies and tight tolerance machining, serving a robust global customer base throughout the aerospace industry. To learn more about Barnes Aerospace, please visit www.barnesaero.com.

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• Act as a strategic business partner to site leadership to identify opportunities for operational and financial performance improvement.

• Analyze current processes, workflows, and systems to identify inefficiencies and develop improvement strategies that drive measurable results.

• Lead the deployment, sustainment, and continuous evolution of the VITAL Operating System at the site.

• Ensure alignment with enterprise CI standards, tools, and methodologies through close collaboration with the Director of Continuous Improvement.

• Identify, prioritize, and lead high-impact CI projects and initiatives that deliver quality, operational, financial, and customer satisfaction improvements.

• Drive successful execution of projects from concept through implementation and sustainment.

• Establish and deploy structured CI frameworks, governance, and standard work across the organization.

• Build organizational capability by training, coaching, developing and mentoring employees at all levels in CI methodologies and tools.

• Partner with operations, engineering, quality, supply chain, finance, safety and other functions to enhance productivity and drive cross-functional improvements.

• Facilitate workshops, kaizen events, training and problem-solving sessions.

• Utilize data-driven methodologies to identify root causes, track performance, and validate improvement outcomes.

• Develop and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure CI effectiveness.

• Stay current with industry trends, tools, and best practices in continuous improvement and operational excellence.

• Drive standardization and sharing of best practices across the organization.

• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience delivering measurable, step-change improvements in business or operational performance.

• Proven hands-on experience with continuous improvement tools and methodologies (e.g., Lean, Theory of Constraints, Kaizen), with relevant certifications preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence across multiple levels of the organization.

• Strong understanding of operational excellence principles across manufacturing or industrial environments.

• Analytical, data-driven approach to problem solving with strong attention to detail.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.

• Strong numerical and analytical capability.

• Project Management certification preferred, but not required, or a strong project management background.

• Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or Black Belt) is a plus.