We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated leader to join our Integrated Manufacturing team. As the Turbine Airfoils Obeya Leader, you will support the Value Stream Integration Leader in driving cross-functional integration, prioritization, escalation, alignment, and collaboration across Engineer
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Turbine Airfoils Obeya Leader
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated leader to join our Integrated Manufacturing team. As the Turbine Airfoils Obeya Leader, you will support the Value Stream Integration Leader in driving cross-functional integration, prioritization, escalation, alignment, and collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Sourcing and Engine Product Line teams.

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.

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:

  • Lead 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 boundaryless 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 for a defined top value stream problem or set of problems
  • 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

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree accredited college or university
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in Aerospace design, manufacturing, quality or operations

Desired Characteristics:

  • Bachelors degree in Engineering, operations management or equivalent experience
  • At least 7 years of experience in Aerospace design, manufacturing, quality or operations
  • Experience with GE Aerospaces FLIGHT DECK system
  • Certification in lean methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Kaizen)
  • Strong understanding of lean manufacturing principles and practices
  • Experience in Microsoft Excel
  • Experience working independently and as part of a team
  • Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
  • Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
  • Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed 
  • Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
  • Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

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

Company Details
GE Aerospace
18000 Phantom W
Victorville, California 92394 USA
www.geaerospace.com/
2232 Open Jobs Available
GE Aerospace is a world-leading provider of jet and turboprop engines, components and integrated systems for commercial, military, business and general aviation aircraft. At GE Aerospace, we believe the world works better when it flies.
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Job Info
Location
Auburn, Alabama, United States
Type
Permanent
Company Details
GE Aerospace
18000 Phantom W
Victorville, California 92394 USA
www.geaerospace.com/
2232 Open Jobs Available
GE Aerospace is a world-leading provider of jet and turboprop engines, components and integrated systems for commercial, military, business and general aviation aircraft. At GE Aerospace, we believe the world works better when it flies.

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