Job Description

Come join the C&SC Integrated Manufacturing Flow team and tackle the biggest challenges in the business.  This position is for an on-site manufacturing leader in Indianapolis, Indiana.

This position requires a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively as a leader in a production environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead manufacturing team to improve output and quality within the following framework:
  • 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 problem parts and area 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 address critical capacity/delivery 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university + minimum of 5 manufacturing operations leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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).

Additional Job Description

Compensation Grade

SPB1

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.

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes