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GE Aerospace · 16 hours ago

CMC Raw Material Obeya Leader

Huntsville

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

GE Aerospace is a leader in the aerospace industry, seeking a CMC Raw Material Obeya Leader to enhance cross-functional integration and collaboration. The role involves driving key initiatives in CMC Raw Material, focusing on problem-solving, efficiency improvements, and fostering a culture of safety and quality within the organization.

AerospaceCommercialManufacturing

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Ensure all activities comply with GE Aerospace's safety standards and regulations. Promote a culture of safety within the team and across the organization

Maintain high-quality standards in all deliverables. Conduct thorough reviews and inspections to ensure compliance with industry and company standards

Manage and prioritize tasks to meet project deadlines and deliverables. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely completion of projects

Identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements. Implement best practices to optimize resource utilization and reduce waste

Assist in identifying and understanding the most likely problems and capacity bottlenecks

Support alignment and communication between readiness leaders on priority and escalation of capacity gaps

Lead problem-solving teams to solve TTI 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

Collaborate with enterprise resources to drive 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

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

Understand internal and external customer needs and ensure that critical customer components are prioritized and addressed effectively

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

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

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

Influences policy and ensures delivery within area of responsibility, linking with other parts of the organization

Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Utilizes understanding of industry trends to inform decision making process

Leads others to find creative solutions within complex manufacturing processes with technical variety and/or interdependent production cycles. Employs sophisticated operational/product management, manufacturing or engineering techniques. Interaction with adjacent functions needed to solve issues. Has the ability to evaluate quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis. Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision

May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Presents business or technical discipline solutions to leaders. Communicates complex messages and negotiates mainly internally with others to adopt a different point of view. Influences peers to take action and may negotiate with external partners, vendors, or customers

Qualification

Lean manufacturing principlesCMC/PMC engineeringAnalytical skillsRelevant Software/ToolsLean methodologies certificationEffective communicationInterpersonal skillsTeam collaborationProblem-solving skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in engineering or equivalent field (or a high school diploma/GED with a minimum of 4 years engineering experience)

Minimum of 5 years manufacturing operations experience or engineering experience