Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Lead operations team to deliver business results using FLIGHT DECK (Lean) Fundamentals and leadership behaviors.
• Demonstrated ability to operate and deliver year over year Safety, Quality, Delivery, & Cost (SQDC) improvements in a recognized a lean management system in a manufacturing environment
• Monitor & improve cost productivity while ensuring all customer commitments are met in a timely, quality & compliant manner
• Establish all production schedules and meet customer’s delivery expectations
• Security: Cultivates a safe and compliant culture through formal EHS Commitment; leads by example on Genba walks; share best practices and learnings within RPCA.
• Quality: Influences teams to develop plans & actions to meet quality and manufacturing KPIs.
• Delivery management:  Works with the Sr management team in the setting of the long-term strategic vision for the site that drives delivery goals and target flow down into the organization.
• Inventory: Ensures efficient inventory levels across the organization to meet customer demands and cash requirements.
• Productivity: Promote FLIGHT DECK principles across the organization to ensure that customer needs are met at all levels; instill a culture of continuous improvement and problem solving.
• Talent: Establishes a high performance, accountable work culture and environment that attracts, retains and motivates across diverse team members; ensures healthy bench strength for critical positions.
• Organizational Culture: Ensures that the participative management culture is maintained at all levels of the organization and that its principles are applied.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, business, or engineering from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 10 years of work experience with proven leadership in manufacturing or supply chain roles

Desired Characteristics

• Master’s degree in business, manufacturing, or engineering from an accredited university
• Experience leading a facility through a growth phase in production.
• Ability to build relationships with all levels of the shop, showing respect for people while maintaining accountability for results.
• Maintain Customer-centric, value stream view
• Demonstrated ability to set and manage competing priorities to drive key deliverables in a fast paced & dynamic environment. Facilitate cross functional collaboration.
• 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 bring individual leaders & employees together to achieve collective goals
• Demonstrated ability to connect across the matrix organization and leverage resources within the broader business. Clearly and effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to foster a psychologically safe environment that supports diverse perspectives and to have healthy debate and manage through difficult conversations
• OMLP graduate or similar program inside or outside GE desired
• 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
• Proven mentoring and coaching abilities in lean principles and kaizen mindset. Demonstrated ability to motivate & inspire others through transformational change.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results in a complex, global, unique and sometimes ambiguous environment
• Demonstrated ability able to influence and communicate well with all levels of the organization, including senior leadership
• Clear, strategic, and critical thinker; proven experience in translating strategies into actionable plans

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