Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt CPI Expert - NOVACES

This role is hybrid and expected to report on site a minimum of 3 days a week. This is not a remote position.

Job Description:

Provide Lean Six Sigma consulting services as a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt for a DoD client in Ft. Belvoir, VA.

• Provide expert advice, assistance, guidance, coaching or counseling to improve DoD's mission-oriented business functions;
• Provide management and strategy consulting;
• Provide program planning, change management, auditing, assessments, and evaluations;
• Assist with and conduct studies, analyses, scenarios, modeling, and reports relating to an agency's mission-oriented business programs or initiatives;
• Conduct CPI projects using a variety of improvement methodologies (e.g., LSS, BPR, ToC, Lean, HCD, Agile Project Management (excludes software development), DFSS, etc.);
• Provide pre-investment BPR analysis;
• Provide advanced statistical analysis:
• Provide modeling, simulation, and other applicable approaches to support a robust approach to improving processes;
• Coach government personnel through project execution at all belt levels or equivalent in other methodologies throughout the life of their project(s);
• Provide coaching to DLA project leadership;
• Develop and conduct organizational CPI maturity assessments;
• Provide CPI deployment advising and execution assistance;
• Support and assist execution of enterprise and organizational CPI deployments to include assistance with government CPI governance, management, and strategy;
• Expert assessment, reporting, and preparation of organizations to achieve recognition in nationally accepted performance quality award programs (e.g. Baldrige and Shingo awards);
• Provide specific actionable recommendations to improve DLA enterprise and organizational process performance, and issuance improvements; and
• Execute recommended process improvements, and provide draft issuance improvements for government review and acceptance.
• Maintain and utilize CAPER as the authoritative source for CPI projects;
• Develop and/or deliver CPI training;
• Develop CPI tools and templates;
• Develop marketing materials specific to CPI goals and objectives.

Minimum Experience:

• Five years certified as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a record of delivering a return on investment to clients.
• Experience with CPI deployment for a large organization >25k employees.
• Five years consulting, advising, and working with federal government senior leaders (flag rank officers and senior executive service levels).

Required Certifications:

• Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification

Other Preferred Certifications:

• ITIL 4
• Lean Sensei
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Certified Change Management Professional
• Scrum Master
• Certified Quality Engineer
• Principal Data Scientist
• Balanced Scorecard Professional
• IT/Cybersecurity experience or background

Education Requirements:

• BS/BA

Security Requirements:

• Active DoD Secret clearance

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $145,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Master Black Belt: 5 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Master Black Belt certification (Required)

Security clearance:

• Secret (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Fort Belvoir, VA 22060