Job Description Summary
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 Description
Roles and Responsibilities:
Safety: Ensure all activities comply with GE Aerospace's 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:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, operations management or equivalent experience
At least 7 years of experience in Aerospace design, manufacturing, quality or operations
Experience with GE Aerospace's 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
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 Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\EEOC\KnowYourRights\10\20.pdf) . 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
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.