Job Description

Roles 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 Duties

Support 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 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

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university
• At least 5 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field.
• Certification in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or Project Management (e.g., PMP, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt).
• 10+ years of experience in aviation manufacturing, composites, or related industries.
• Deep knowledge of composite materials and processes, including Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC).
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
• Experience managing large-scale projects or programs with significant complexity and resource requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute long-term business strategies.
• Experience with capacity planning, forecasting, and resource optimization
• Strong understanding of Lean principles, Kaizen, Hoshin Kanri, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Familiarity with GE Aerospace’s proprietary FLIGHT DECK lean operating model

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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