Black Belt Engineer Jobs in Indiana

Job Title: SME Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Company: URS Location: Crane, IN Description: Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years technical and/or operational experience that demonstrates the individual is a prominent and recognized authority in the subject matter field. Candidates must possess excellent communication and analytical skills; Effective Lean Six Sigma transformation; Strong inter personal communication; Organizational and analytical skills; Working knowledge of word-processing and integrated software applications. DoN Lean Six Sigma Black Belt trained; Mastery of DoD 5000 Acquisition, Technology, & Logistics Life Cycle Management system, policies, procedures, and tools. Position will require travel. Position will require the ability to pass and maintain a Security Clearance. Job Description : Provide high-level expert advice, assistance, guidance or counseling to the government in support of DoD programs. Specific Responsibilities involve conducting DoN Continuous Improvement (CI) transformation at the PEO level, providing program management administration, instructional training, and administrative support. The Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Black Belt will be the PEO IWS 2I Cobra Judy Replacement (CJR) and Sea-Based X-band Radar (SBX) Lean support. The tasking may also include studies, analysis and reports documenting any proposed developmental, consultative or implementation efforts/recommendations. The SME - LSS Black Belt for PEO IWS 2I will provide LSS principles to create efficiencies in the Cobra Judy Replacement and the Sea-Based X-band Radar programs. The team, as guided by the SME - LSS Black Belt, will increase product and service quality to the Fleet and other customers, increase process speed, eliminate waste, lower costs, and create optimal schedules built on data-driven processes. Essential Responsibilities:1. Supervise, coach, and lead a team for a specific area of expertise mentioned above. 2. Collaborate daily with customer(s) to determine specific needs and requirements and to counsel within the expertise area; including oversight and task execution. 3. Develop and/or review program reports, technical papers, drawings, specifications, procedures, etc.; provide comments; organize, consolidate, and adjudicate comments from various organizations, and prepare reports. 4. Perform expert-level review, analysis, and validation of engineering and logistics products; prepare executive-level reports and briefs. 5. Consult as industry expert with customer, advise on policy development, planning and implementation. 6. Interface with various technical and logistics team leaders daily to exchange information and coordinate related task performance. 7. Mentor junior-level personnel in the SME area of assigned work. General Responsibilities:1. Assist the IWS chair in guiding the PEO IWS 2I Lean Core Team on NAVSEA,PEO, Task Force Lean, and other activity reports directly related to PEO IWS 2ILean activities2. Conduct executive planning to focus the enterprise, establish performancebenchmarks, and provide gap analysis3. Establish metrics to track the performance of the organization4. Use Value Stream Analysis (VSA) to understand each product/service valuestream through the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition lifecycle5. Develop a detailed Rapid Improvement Plan (RIP) to guide a customer-focused Rapid Improvement Team on a waste identification and elimination process leading to an ideal state with specific, targeted metrics and goals obtained from structured business case analysis processes6. Maintain and track value streams, associated RIPs, and activities crossingmultiple value streams; Conduct pre-Rapid Improvement Event training to ensureeveryone has standard Lean process knowledge, as well, as specific Lean toolapplication and utilization.7. Provide Six Sigma project guidance and training using theDefine-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) methodology and other statisticaltools