Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

In this role you will be accountable for planning and directing all aspects of the organizations manufacturing community relations and supply chain strategies objectives initiatives and

policies as well as play a key leadership role within the Rotating Parts & Compressor Airfoils organization.

• Lead operations team to deliver business results using FLIGHT DECK (Lean) Fundamentals and leadership behaviors.
• Demonstrated ability to operate and deliver year over year Safety Quality Delivery & Cost (SQDC) improvements in a recognized a lean management system in a manufacturing environment
• Meet plant safety and quality goals
• Establish all production schedules and meet customers delivery expectations
• Monitor & improve cost productivity while ensuring all customer commitments are met in a timely quality & compliant manner
• Establish and direct plant policies and procedures
• Have a strong focus on employee relations
• Foster well-trained and motivated staff
• Select train and develop plant supervisory and administrative staff
• Provide leadership for executing New Product Introductions (NPIs) with a strong network with engineering design
• Ensure sufficient capacity exists to achieve all customer commitments
• Develop & create training plans to maximize workforce capability
• Conduct employee performance reviews
• Schedule and conduct plant meetings; foster employee engagement and ensure that business and operational goals are effectively communicated to employees
• Promote a working environment that encourages employee involvement to achieve excellence in productivity customer service quality inventory and Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in manufacturing business or engineering from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 10 years of work experience with proven leadership in manufacturing or supply chain roles

Eligibility Requirements

• This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e. U.S. citizens permanent residents and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to access to export-controlled technology. GE will require proof of status prior to employment.

Additional Eligibility Requirement

• GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.
• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Desired Characteristics

• Masters degree in business manufacturing or engineering from an accredited university
• Experience leading a facility through a growth phase in production.
• Ability to build relationships with all levels of the shop showing respect for people while maintaining accountability for results.
• Maintain Customer-centric value stream view
• Demonstrated ability to set and manage competing priorities to drive key deliverables in a fast paced & dynamic environment. Facilitate cross functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to shape and drive culture including safety mindset understanding of potential hazards as well as defenses in place to mitigate risks
• Demonstrated ability to bring individual leaders & employees together to achieve for collective goals
• Demonstrated ability to connect across the matrix organization and leverage resources within the broader business. Clearly and effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to foster a psychologically safe environment that supports diverse perspectives and to have healthy debate and manage through difficult conversations
• OMLP graduate or similar program inside or outside GE desired
• Knowledge of the disciplines of manufacturing management such as production and inventory control variable cost productivity and fulfillment metrics quality systems cost systems and fulfillment metrics and procedures
• Proven mentoring and coaching abilities in lean principles and kaizen mindset. Demonstrated ability to motivate & inspire others through transformational change.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results in a complex global unique and sometimes ambiguous environment
• Demonstrated ability able to influence and communicate well with all levels of the organization including senior leadership
• Clear strategic and critical thinker; proven experience in translating strategies into actionable plans

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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