Lean Industrialization Director

Lead the Basel Continuous Improvement Operating Model: Define and implement the CI framework, governance structure, operating model, and meeting cadence for the Basel site. Establish clear standards, routines, and accountabilities to support sustainable improvement.

Drive Strategic Prioritization: Partner with Basel leadership to identify and prioritize the most significant efficiency opportunities across departments and value streams, ensuring resources are focused on high-impact initiatives.

Govern the Improvement Portfolio: Manage the CI pipeline from idea generation and prioritization through implementation, tracking, escalation, and reporting. Provide transparency on progress, risks, savings, and results to support effective leadership decisions.

Enable Cross-Functional Collaboration: Align stakeholders across Board Member Allocation, Heads of Department, Engineering, Planning and Scheduling, SCM, PRIN, Gulfstream Completions, 145, IT, and other relevant functions. Chair or coordinate the Cross-Functional Improvement Council to align priorities and remove barriers.

Build CI Capability and Ownership: Establish the framework for selecting, training, coaching, and activating Yellow Belt and Green Belt practitioners. Ensure they are connected to the governance model and equipped to deliver improvements within their areas.

Embed a Culture of Excellence: Work with leaders to integrate Continuous Improvement into annual objectives, operating routines, and leadership expectations, ensuring ownership remains within the business and is supported by CI specialists.

Since 1967, Jet Aviation has been crafting flight in its smoothest form. From one hangar in Basel, Switzerland, to over 5,000 employees, and some 50 locations worldwide. Aircraft Management, Aircraft Sales, Charter, Completions, Government Services, FBO, Fixed and Rotary Wing Maintenance, and Staffing. Behind every seamless Jet Aviation experience, is a team of dedicated professionals perfecting the art of flight. The artisans of aviation. The craft that brings our customers’ journey to life. In the hangar, on the ground, and behind the scenes. Enabling global flight, with passion.

Jet Aviation is driving excellence across business aviation through precision, performance, and an unwavering commitment to its customers. The role focuses on strengthening operations and embedding Continuous Improvement as a leadership-supported business discipline across Basel.

• You have a strong background in Continuous Improvement, Operational Excellence, Industrial Engineering, Operations Engineering, transformation, or a related field. You are experienced in aligning diverse stakeholders around shared priorities.

• You bring a disciplined approach to governance, portfolio management, performance tracking, and escalation. You can translate operational data into clear priorities and communicate progress, risks, savings, and outcomes to senior leaders.

• You have strong knowledge of CI methodologies, structured problem solving, waste reduction, standards deployment, and process improvement. You understand how to embed sustainable improvements into daily operations.

• You build trust and gain commitment without direct authority. As a confident communicator and facilitator, you bring clarity to complex topics and create alignment across functions.

• You have experience building capability through training, coaching, or belt-based practitioner models and can turn CI principles into practical tools and behaviors.

• You maintain momentum through complexity, competing priorities, and resistance to change, with a clear focus on measurable and sustainable results.