Job Description Summary

The FLIGHT DECK Manager will partner with the leadership team at all levels to drive product flow and process improvements that deliver lead time reductions and maximize cash flow. Further develop the site’s lean culture by facilitating FLIGHT DECK training at all levels of the organization.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

Lean Transformation:

• Lead lean transformations within manufacturing cells to improve process quality and create capacity by reducing cycle time, inventory, and waste.
• Establish site lean standards following FLIGHT DECK, GE Aerospace's proprietary lean operating model, for standard work, problem solving, visual management/5S and daily management, and support the deployment of the principals by training employees.
• Be a champion of Kaizen that impacts product flow, production to TAKT, and inventory turns.
• Teach, promote, and practice the lean principles and tools.
• Lead Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen events to identify process wastes and to develop and implement corrective actions.
• Create Standardized Work Instructions, layouts, and process flow diagrams.
• Facilitate functional managers in establishing process flow by implementing visual management tools and methods to pull product through the work cells.
• Coach teams using the Problem-Solving methodology through the define, analyze, countermeasure and sustain phases.

Lean Culture:

• Facilitate, train, and coach team members in the use of FLIGHT DECK
• Educate, coach, and mentor others on Lean philosophy and application.
• Lead the site’s hourly Lean Coordinator program.
• Assist with the development and implementation of the Lean Training Matrix
• Communicate and coordinate effectively with supply chain partners to achieve goals and results.
• Identify potential process improvement projects and execute on areas of opportunities to support plants and product groups in supporting their customer(s)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree accredited college or university (or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 4 years of experience in lean deployment and execution ideally in a manufacturing environment).
• Minimum of 3 years of lean deployment and execution ideally in a manufacturing environment experience.

Desired Experience and Characteristics:

• Proficient in MS Office suite and industry specific tools (Visio, Minitab, Excel)
• Managed mid to large size transformational projects (facility relocation, restructuring, new product/process development)
• Coached/influenced all levels of stakeholders (shop floor to plant leadership) towards meaningful change.
• Experience in Lean Manufacturing, Lean Transformation, Operational Excellence
• Experience with Value Stream Mapping, Daily Management, Kaizen Events, Standard Work, Problem Solving, Visual Management
• Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously.
• Experience working in manufacturing, specifically in a shop floor environment.
• Experience training others in principles of Lean methodology
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn​
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively​
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed, delivers on time
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker, detail oriented
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborator, influencer, relationship builder

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.

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