Continuous Improvement Specialist

About the role

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing. When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and strategic alignment of the site's performance management system, establishing a clear connection between outcome-based KPIs and actionable monitoring measures.
• Convert operational objectives and production requirements into targeted continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring alignment with the site's overall production strategy and priorities.
• Create and maintain a centralized and reliable source of KPI information, including standardized KPI definitions and documentation to promote data accuracy, consistency, and transparency.
• Lead initiatives that standardize KPI definitions, measurement methods, reporting practices, and performance management processes across production areas.
• Deploy and Improve the Performance Management System: Manage the implementation of new KPIs, reporting tools, and performance dashboards across multiple levels of management, ensuring effective adoption and consistent use.
• Establish a structured performance governance model, including defined review processes, responsibilities, and Terms of Reference, to support accountability and effective decision-making.
• Promote a continuous improvement culture focused on practical, incremental changes that produce sustainable results rather than relying solely on large-scale transformations.
• Analyze day-to-day processes and workflows to identify opportunities to reduce waste, inefficiencies, errors, delays, and unnecessary complexity.
• Apply continuous improvement methodologies such as Kaizen and the PDCA cycle to plan,