Job Description Summary
Job Description
About GE Aerospace:
Are you ready to see your future take flight? At GE Aerospace, we are advancing aviation technologies for today and tomorrow. Your work will contribute to the production of advanced jet engines, components, and integrated systems that power commercial and military aircraft. You'll be part of a team that embraces your drive, your curiosity, and your unique ideas and perspectives. Most importantly, you'll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world!
Working at our Grand Rapids Facility
For more than 15 years our manufacturing facilities in Grand Rapids have helped fuel the growth and success of GE Aerospace. We're producing high quality electronics and avionics parts and equipment to exacting standards. Including Avionics Computing Systems, Mission System, Navigation and Guidance and Vehicle Health & Data Management products. We're the career home for union and non-union employees who seek purpose and challenge in their careers. People just like you.
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Role Overview:
The Senior Manufacturing Staff Manager (Material Plan & Execution) will oversee sourcing and fulfillment operations, ensuring that production meets the highest standards of safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC). This role requires a strategic leader with a strong background in manufacturing processes, lean principles, and team management.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Manage customer fulfilment of orders while ensuring operational alignment with production plans and KPIs, which includes optimizing inventory and improving processes.
- Provide support in data analysis that will enable fulfilment of parts, identify reasons for gaps, and supporting root cause analysis.
- Enable shipping team to meet the daily shipping target with a focus on critical shipment parts, which includes monitoring of shipment in transit and coordination with dock manager.
- Coordinate closely with Quality team on final shipment loading and ensure correct shipping procedures are followed.
- Lead others to find creative solutions within complex manufacturing processes with technical variety and/or interdependent production cycles.
- Interact with adjacent functions to solve issues. May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.
- Present business or technical discipline solutions to leaders and influence peers to take action.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 9 years of experience in Manufacturing/Operations leadership)
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Manufacturing/Operations leadership
Preferred Qualifications:
- Supply chain experience with component manufacturing and assembly
- 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
This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
Additional Information
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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 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