Job Description

Company OverviewGE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) is a global leader in aerospace propulsion, services, and integrated systems. Currently, it has approximately 44,000 in-service commercial aircraft engines worldwide. With a century-long history of innovation and profound industry expertise, GE Aerospace is committed to inventing the future of flight, lifting people up, and bringing them home safely.

Site Overview

For 45 years in China, GE Aerospace has committed to developing and investing in China’s aviation industry with reliable, efficient, sustainable, and outstanding products and services. GE Aerospace and its joint venture CFM have served more than 60 airline customers in the Greater China Region, with over 7700 engines in service and nearly 5000 engines on order. We are devoted to the market’s quality growth propelled by technological innovation and digitalization. Together with our partners, we are shaping a sustainable future of flight that helps the industry reach its carbon-neutral goal for the benefit of us all tomorrow.

Role Overview

The On Wing Support Shanghai FLIGHT DECK Leader will be responsible for transforming results through the application of FLIGHT DECK, GE Aerospace’s lean operating model. Partnering with site teams, the On Wing Support Global Leadership team and other stakeholders, the individual will ensure that FLIGHT DECK is implemented in full across the site’s operations, and lead the changes in approach and mindset to ensure Lean principles are applied effectively throughout the site in support of strategic and operational business plans. The primary responsibilities of this position are to lead/facilitate the development of lean proficiency of the site team to improve operating processes and standard work, and to partner with any stakeholders outside of the site as needed to drive impact.

On Wing Support is a 24 / 7 / 365 operation with sites in multiple global time zones. Although every effort is made to respect local time zones of all team members, leaders within the global network are expected to be willing and flexible within reason to accommodate and support all global sites.

The Ideal Candidate

• Lead, facilitate, educate, advocate, consult and act as needed with the OWS Site team to drive the understanding and application of FLIGHT DECK
• Collaborate with FLIGHT DECK Leader peers across OWS and the broader GE Aerospace team to share learning and improvement experience for the benefit of others, identify opportunities for the site from the shared learnings of others, progress our lean culture and drive FLIGHT DECK activation.
• Develop, lead and manage a multi-year Site FLIGHT DECK Transformation Roadmap, and contribute to the same objective for OWS globally.
• Contribute to site’s operating goal achievement by facilitating and coaching the use of KPI based performance management.
• Be a champion of kaizen and facilitate kaizen events to drive improvements.
• Coach, mentor and develop organizational competencies to drive effective KPI’s, action plans, and problem solving to assure results are achieved and sustained.  Coach all aspect of FLIGHT DECK to drive standard and impactful application.
• Coach and mentor model cell implementations and work with the sites to scale through creation of robust transformation plans that assure breakthrough results.
• Partner with the ATMRO FLIGHT DECK operations team and ATMRO leaders to quickly deploy new, best-practice capability and process across ATMRO network.  Key contributor to the development and implementation of FLIGHT DECK operating system.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent experience.
• Experience applying a lean operating system including Daily Management, KPI Performance Management, Problem Solving, Action Planning and Continuous Improvement within an industrial environment.
• Flexibility to collaborate globally, accommodating communication with colleagues in an organisation spanning 14 hours time zone variance, and international travel expected to not exceed 4 weeks per year.

Preferred Qualifications

• Operations management and/or lean practitioner experience within an aircraft engine maintenance environment, or another industrial services sector.
• Interest and demonstrated ability in complex problem solving.
• Lean practitioner, capable of leading and facilitating kaizen events.
• Highly collaborative person, comfortable with conflict and debate normally associated with change.
• Critical thinker with the ability to bring others along, even those with conflicting priorities.
• Impactful communicator, with ability to work with all levels of the organization.

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate. 

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