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.
As a Lean Business Improvement Manager you will be responsible for;
- Lead Lean Business Improvement Projects (LBIPs) from initiation through deployment and sustainment.
- Develop and maintain project identification documents, business cases, project charters, and macro-level project plans.
- Establish project objectives, milestones, deliverables, and success criteria.
- Organize and facilitate major milestone reviews and governance meetings.
- Prepare and present milestone review reports to leadership and stakeholders.
- Perform detailed assessments of current-state ("As-Is") processes, systems, tools, and operational practices.
- Conduct technical analyses to identify improvement opportunities and define future-state ("To-Be") solutions.
- Evaluate process impacts across people, tools, systems, and operational workflows.
- Gather and analyze Voice of Customer (VOC) feedback to ensure business needs are incorporated into solutions.
- Identify and validate quick-win opportunities that deliver measurable value.
- Develop and execute comprehensive change management strategies.
- Identify impacted stakeholder populations and assess organizational readiness.
- Create communication plans and communication toolkits to support project adoption.
- Facilitate stakeholder engagement and alignment throughout project execution.
- Support training and deployment activities to ensure successful implementation.
- Identify project risks, opportunities, constraints, and blockers.
- Develop mitigation plans and corrective actions to address identified risks.
- Monitor project performance and proactively escalate issues as needed.
- Ensure action plans are effectively executed and tracked to completion.
- Develop technical deployment and implementation plans.
- Coordinate project execution with Quality, Production, Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Operational Support teams.
- Track project benefits against established targets and KPIs.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and sustainment activities following deployment.
- Promote Lean methodologies and best practices across the organization.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Business Management, Operations Management, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in project management, continuous improvement, manufacturing operations, quality, or industrial engineering.
- Experience leading cross-functional improvement initiatives in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and Change Management principles.
- Experience performing process mapping, impact assessments, and root cause analysis.
- Strong presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and project management tools.
- Aerospace, automotive, or advanced manufacturing industry experience.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Experience with production, quality, and engineering processes in a Final Assembly Line (FAL) environment.
- Knowledge of risk management methodologies and organizational change management frameworks
Location: Mobile, AL
Salary Range: $70,000 - $80,000
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.
Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Business Management, Operations Management, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in project management, continuous improvement, manufacturing operations, quality, or industrial engineering.
- Experience leading cross-functional improvement initiatives in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and Change Management principles.
- Experience performing process mapping, impact assessments, and root cause analysis.
- Strong presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and project management tools.
- Aerospace, automotive, or advanced manufacturing industry experience.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Experience with production, quality, and engineering processes in a Final Assembly Line environment.
- Knowledge of risk management methodologies and organizational change management frameworks.
What We Do
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company that provides innovative solutions for engineering, IT, and product development projects across the product life cycle. For decades, ALTEN Technology USA has been helping clients develop products that are changing the world, whether by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set new standards of care or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. The company provides support across industries including aerospace, defense, MedTech and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, energy and environment, rail, and more.
Why Work With Us
Potential clients in the industries we serve, Professionals in the Industries, and Potential employees within New Product Development, Engineering Services, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Embedded Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering and IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
