Job Description Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as the Additive Value Stream Integrated Manufacturing Leader. This leadership role is pivotal in driving cross functional integration, owning the process and cadence for prioritization, escalation, alignment, and cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Safety. The successful candidate will work closely with readiness and delivery leaders to drive at-point problem solving, highlight process gaps, and identify continuous improvement opportunities. This role demands extreme focus and ownership, fostering transparency and integrity, and eliminating unnecessary roadblocks, driving the right balance between process and outcomes, through system level leadership across the value streams.
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Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Prioritization and Escalation:
- Collaborate with area readiness leaders and product line flow leaders to identify and understand the most likely problem parts and area capacity bottlenecks driving overall value stream top constraints on a rolling 5-quarter horizon.
- Drive alignment and communication between readiness leaders on priority and escalation of capacity gaps.
Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement:
- Establish and directly lead or delegate & coach problem-solving teams (shop, readiness, sourcing, PT) as appropriate to work on the most critical capacity/delivery gaps using Lean principles (VSM, daily management, at-point problem solving, tie visual management to problem-solving outcomes across the part value stream).
- Highlight process gaps and continuous improvement opportunities to enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness.
- Drive extreme focus and ownership in addressing issues and implementing solutions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Align enterprise resources to drive boundaryless problem-solving across all available levers (Sourcing, Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, PL Commercial/Services).
- 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.
- Demonstrate influencing skills and the ability to drive action through data and outcomes.
Capacity Building and Predictive Modeling:
- Create and continuously improve processes to collect intelligence and construct predictive models to inform capacity-building strategy.
- Drive connection of best available 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.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, or related field from accredited university or college with minimum of 10 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 13 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 15 years of professional experience
- Minimum 7 years of professional experience manufacturing management, with a focus on problem solving, capacity planning, and priority setting.
- Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience
- Eligibility Requirement:
- -Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
- Proven experience in a leadership role within a complex manufacturing or engineering environment.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong understanding of process improvement methodologies and problem-solving techniques with demonstrated success implementing FLIGHT DECK.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to drive alignment and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment through influencing.
- Experience with predictive modeling and capacity planning is highly desirable.
- Strong focus on safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC) principles.
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Strong technical/engineering experience
- Experience with lean principles, value stream mapping (VSM), and daily management practices.
- Ability to lead and coach teams to achieve high-performance outcomes.
Application Process: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and cover letter detailing their qualifications and experience relevant to this role.
Note: This job description uses an understanding of public lean knowledge and not the proprietary GE Aerospace FLIGHT DECK system. For more information on GE Aerospace's FLIGHT DECK, please visit: https://spo-teamsite.ge.com/sites/GEAerospaceFlightDeckActivationHub
We look forward to welcoming a dedicated and dynamic leader to our team who will drive excellence in process and cadence management.
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity 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. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes