Job DescriptionRoles and Responsibilities

• Safety: Ensure all activities comply with GE Aerospaces safety standards and regulations. Promote a culture of safety within the team and across the organization.
• Quality: Maintain high-quality standards in all deliverables. Conduct thorough reviews and inspections to ensure compliance with industry and company standards.
• Delivery: Manage and prioritize tasks to meet project deadlines and deliverables. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Cost: Identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements. Implement best practices to optimize resource utilization and reduce waste

Specific DutiesSupport Prioritization and Escalation:

• Assist in identifying and understanding the most likely problems and capacity bottlenecks.

• Support alignment and communication between readiness leaders on priority and escalation of capacity gaps.

Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement:

• Participate in problem-solving teams to solve TTI gaps using Lean principles.
• Highlight process gaps and continuous improvement opportunities to enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness.
• Drive focus and ownership in addressing issues and implementing solutions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Collaborate with enterprise resources to drive problem solving across all available levers.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and integrity across different functions to achieve common goals.
• Eliminate unnecessary roadblocks and bureaucracy to streamline processes and enhance productivity.

Capacity Building and Predictive Modeling:

• Assist in creating and continuously improving processes to collect intelligence and construct predictive models.
• Support the connection of model predictions to product line flow leaders to ensure supply chain realities align closely with external business commitments.

Customer Focus:

• Understand internal and external customer needs and ensure that critical customer components are prioritized and addressed effectively.

Obeya Leadership:

• Serve as the Obeya leader and own the process and cadence for prioritization, escalation, alignment, and cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Safety.
• Work closely with readiness and delivery leaders to drive at-point problem solving, highlight process gaps, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Foster transparency and integrity, eliminating unnecessary roadblocks and bureaucracy, driving the right balance between process and outcomes.

Lean Coaching and Cultural Transformation:

• Coach, drive, and lead lean behaviors, principles, and tools across an operational or functional area.
• Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in operational business metrics.
• Influences policy and ensures delivery within area of responsibility, linking with other parts of the organization.
• Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Utilizes understanding of industry trends to inform decision making process.
• Leads others to find creative solutions within complex manufacturing processes with technical variety and/or interdependent production cycles. Employs sophisticated operational/product management, manufacturing or engineering techniques. Interaction with adjacent functions needed to solve issues. Has the ability to evaluate quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis. Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Presents business or technical discipline solutions to leaders. Communicates complex messages and negotiates mainly internally with others to adopt a different point of view. Influences peers to take action and may negotiate with external partners, vendors, or customers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in engineering or equivalent field
• Minimum of 5 years manufacturing operations experience

Desired Characteristics

• Strong understanding of lean manufacturing principles and practices.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proficiency in Relevant Software/Tools.
• Experience with GE Aerospaces FLIGHT DECK system
• Certification in lean methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Kaizen).

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. ​

GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

LI-EDRICH

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

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