Compliance Value Stream Spec I

Job Description The VSS role is responsible for planning, organizing, implementing, leading, and managing activities within a team-based manufacturing environment. This specific position will have an emphasis on factory compliance and building a proactive program within the factory. On a day to day basis the role requires:

• Coordinating value stream manufacturing execution and engages with factory employees as well as cross-functional team members to ensure production builds are aligned with factory compliance milestones and schedules.
• Ensures compliance with all safety and health regulations stated by internal company policy and Federal, State, and Local applicable standards.
• Participant in audits and tours within the factory. Addressing observations and findings as they are identified.
• Ensuring key business metrics are achieved within the factory and drives compliance corrective action. Utilizes data tools to monitor and develop actions to achieve quality, delivery and cost targets.
• Maintains product flow and demand pull. Understand the concepts of factory layouts, line balancing, defect prevention and continuous improvements to ensure the most efficient flow is achieved.
• Provide leadership to the manufacturing personnel by coaching and developing personnel. Assuring the manufacturing team members have the necessary training and the training matrices are updated.
• Promote a strong sense of teamwork among personnel throughout and across the factory programs. Provides leadership consistent with the Mission and Guiding Principles.
• Serve as the focal point to communicate and resolve compliance issues within their factory and between other factories. Coordinate with internal and external customers as necessary to ensure commitments are achieved. Facilitate problem solving and collaboration.
• Provide a single point of contact between Manufacturing and Operations personnel for providing status and resolving problems within the factory.
• Develop a broad cultural understanding of the Lean process. Establish the visual factory and empower the manufacturing team to achieve a smooth flow of both priority and routine tasks.
• Leads daily production meetings, and presents status of compliance in cross-functional team meetings.
• Identifies errors and initiates corrective action and monitors the quality date to ensure the effectiveness of the corrective action. Supports corrective action reviews and participates in identifying root causes and corrective actions within the value stream.
• Understanding and ensuring product costs are achieved within the value stream. Identify areas for cost take out and work with the manufacturing team to identify and implement plans to reduce or eliminate bottlenecks within the value stream. Possesses an unrelenting desire to identify and implement cost take out activities and engage in defect prevention activities.
• Performs other related duties as required

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor's Degree and 2 years work experience or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience in implementing change in manufacturing areas.
• Experience with Lean Systems and/or Six Sigma
• Sound interpersonal skills involving interfacing, coordinating and negotiating with company personnel, customers and suppliers.

About BAE Systems Electronic Systems BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you’ll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems’ game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere – from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact – for our customers and the communities we serve.

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