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 .

Key responsibilities

- Business Partnership & Strategy

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.

- Operational Excellence & VITAL Ownership

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.

- Project Leadership & Execution

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.

- Frameworks & Capability Building

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.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration

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.

- Performance & Analytics

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.

- Continuous Learning & Best Practices

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.

What we're looking for

- 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.