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Job Description

Reporting to the Enabling Functions FLIGHT DECK Leader this role will serve as a coach facilitator and advocate to the Sciences Engineering and Strategy organization to drive the understanding and adoption of FLIGHT DECK. This will be accomplished through:

• Partnering with Sciences Engineering and Strategy leaders to prioritize and solve problems based on voice of the customer and voice of the process.

• Implementing and coaching the Daily Management process including daily management meetings Genba walks and Kata coaching cycles.

• Be a champion of kaizen and facilitate kaizen events to drive improvements.

• Coach and develop team members at all levels of the organization to help them build lean skills and become lean practitioners.

• Coach mentor and develop organizational competencies to drive effective KPIs action plans and problem solving to drive sustainable results.

• Delivering step-change performance improvement through the execution of Hoshin Kanri improvement priorities and action planning.

• Working with colleagues to quickly deploy new best-practice capability and processes.

• Embrace Lean digital tools and rigorous prioritization to drive continuous improvement and increase employee and customer satisfaction.

• Support the function to accelerate problem solving application.

• Share best practices across different segments GE Aerospace Defense and Systems.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college AND a minimum of 5 years experience applying Lean in a global matrix organization.

• Proven ability to achieve results using the Lean toolset.

• Experience facilitating 5-day Kaizen events including preparation coaching stakeholders in framing the problem statement facilitating the session to identify opportunities and drive decision-making assigning ownership and managing follow-up.

• This position requires U.S. citizenship status.

Desired Characteristics and Experience:

• 10 years of experience in manufacturing quality improvement and 5 years of experience in lean or operations leadership Lean methodology and Six Sigma tools.

• Lean practitioner capable of facilitating Value Stream & Kaizen events and coaching core tools such as Daily Management structured Problem Solving and Standard Work. Continuous improvement experience in both transactional and supply chain operations environments.

• Proven to be effective driving outcomes in large matrixed organizations able to influence without direct authority.

• Experience delivering Hoshin Kanri (HK) breakthrough objectives.

• Change agent and able to make the case for lean and demonstrate immediate impact. Experience with Change Management and how to drive adoption and develop maturity.

• Demonstrated bias for action with ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.

• 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 collaborator.

• Problem solver: analytical-minded challenges existing processes critical thinker.

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This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident U.S. Citizen have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e. a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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