Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the operations team to execute and achieve business goals using Lean manufacturing methodology
• Drive business outcomes and through standard work for daily, weekly, and monthly operating reviews and metrics, action planning and robust problem solving.
• Achieve established safety, quality, delivery, and cost goals ensuring sufficient capacity exists to meet customer commitments

• Ensure assigned employees are aware / comply with all GE government, customer and applicable policies, procedures, rules and regulations
• Monitor & improve cost productivity while ensuring all customer commitments are met in a timely, quality & compliant manner
• Control manufacturing processes through plans that consider personal requirements, materials, sub-contracting, facilities, tooling and equipment
• Have a strong focus on positive employee and union relations
• Select, train, and develop plant leadership team
• Be responsible for driving continuous improvements in shops to ensure that internal business metrics are met
• Provide ongoing supervision and counseling for employees, guiding them and assisting with career development and training
• Collaborate and problem-solve cross-functionally to achieve business objectives

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of 8 years of manufacturing or operations leadership experience

Desired Characteristics

• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn, global mindset
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Focused:  strategically prioritizes work, committed
• Leadership: Continuous improvement mindset, strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative, demonstrated ability to motivate & inspire others
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker
• Ability to energize, develop and builds rapport at all levels within an organization.
• 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
• Demonstrated ability to set and manage competing priorities to drive key deliverables in a fast paced & dynamic environment
• 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 connect across the GE matrix organization and leverage resources within the broader business
• Lean mindset with demonstrated ability to apply tools and process rigor
• Demonstrated capability in employee and union relations
• Demonstrated ability able to influence and communicate well with all levels of the organization, including senior leadership

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