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GE Aerospace · 6 days ago

Flight Deck - Lean Leader - Aerospace Research

Niskayuna, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$100K/yr - $205K/yr

10+ years exp

GE Aerospace is focused on fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within its Aerospace Research division. The Flight Deck - Lean Leader will drive Lean processes, facilitate training sessions, and lead initiatives to enhance organizational effectiveness across the value stream.

AerospaceCommercialManufacturing

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Support a culture of continuous improvement and simplicity across AR

Collaborate with extended teams to improve operating cadences across all organization through tool deployment and coaching

Responsible for driving measurable and sustained deployment of standard work, 5S and lean initiatives across AR

Develop, maintain, and track the “health” of the AR value stream as part of the continuous improvement process

Design and implement data management processes to extract and transform data for both existing and new KPIs within the Transformation Office

Present success stories and challenges associated with Kaizen activity across AR

Analyze and summarize complex data in support of Kaizen activities using excel and other analytic tools

Drive system level solutions to reduce manual intervention and reduce process

Drive continuous improvement in the daily, weekly monthly operating cadence within the Transformation Office, coordinated with the rhythm of the entire enterprise

Work with other process improvement leaders to prioritize, coordinate, load balance and implement Kaizen activities across AR

Support the development and implementation of standard work across the AR organization

Responsible for ownership of specific daily, weekly, and monthly management processes that measure the health of operations with respect to supporting the top of the house bowler

Deploy lean across the enterprise by leading and participating in Lean events to remove waste and improve organizational effectiveness

Develop materials where required and train and coach various teams on Lean tools, methodologies and how to effectively deploy FLIGHT DECK

Collaborate with various operational colleagues to ensure solutions are comprehensive, sustainable, and properly account for the impact across the entire value stream

Responsible for maintaining a voice of the customer (VOC) operating rhythm and process improvement prioritization process across the entire value stream

Partner with Aerospace Engineering on short and long-term business process improvement initiatives

Work on tradeoff studies to determine where there are system level solutions for larger scale process improvements

Qualification

Lean processesKaizen eventsProcess improvementData managementChange managementPresentation skillsInterpersonal skillsLeadership skillsProblem-solvingProject management

Required

Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 10 years of experience in operations, program management and/or quality management roles

Must be willing to work onsite in Niskayuna, NY

US citizenship required