FLIGHT DECK Leader – Manufacturing Engineering Transformation

Job Description SummaryThe FLIGHT DECK Leader will be responsible for driving lean transformation and continuous improvement across manufacturing engineering operations, ensuring alignment with GE Aerospace’s FLIGHT DECK operating model. This role requires expertise in lean principles, project or program management, and quality management processes to deliver measurable results in safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC). The FLIGHT DECK Leader will partner closely with the Manufacturing Engineering leader and their extended team to activate FLIGHT DECK and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• FLIGHT DECK Implementation: Lead the full adoption of FLIGHT DECK fundamentals, including Standard Work, Daily & Visual Management, Value Stream Management, Operating Cadences, and Hoshin Kanri, to optimize manufacturing processes.
• Leadership & Coaching: Advise and coach site leadership and teams on FLIGHT DECK principles, acting as a change agent to embed lean practices and drive cultural transformation.
• Process Improvement: Utilize lean tools and methodologies to solve complex problems, develop objectives, and achieve both short-term and long-term goals.
• Kaizen Facilitation: Sensei/Coach gemba coaches to facilitate week-long kaizen events aligned with site-level metrics and business priorities.
• Training & Development: Manage the training and development of extended manufacturing engineering team to ensure alignment with FLIGHT DECK transformation efforts, including curriculum development, delivery, and audit readiness.
• Continuous Improvement: Champion change across the organization, leveraging tools such as the FLIGHT DECK Activation Hub to foster growth and adoption of lean practices.
• Collaboration: Interface effectively with OEMs, internal teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to position technology and processes for current and future success.
• Metrics & Impact: Drive measurable improvements in SQDC performance, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and customer expectations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education:  Bachelor’s Degree accredited college or university with a minimum of 5 years of lean manufacturing leadership experience.
• Experience Alternative: High school diploma/GED with a minimum of 10 years of lean manufacturing leadership experience.

Desired Experience and Characteristics:

• Experience: 10+ years in manufacturing, engineering, quality improvement, program management, with 5+ years in lean/FLIGHT DECK or operations leadership utilizing lean methodologies.
• Problem Solving: Proven ability to analyze problems, identify root causes, and implement efficient solutions.
• Leadership: Strong interpersonal, communication, and team leadership skills, with the ability to facilitate across all organizational levels.
• Organizational Skills: Ability to manage diverse activities simultaneously and work effectively in a matrix organization.
• Behaviors:
  • Humble: Respectful, receptive, agile, and eager to learn.
  • Transparent: Shares critical information, speaks with candor, and contributes constructively.
  • Focused: Strategically prioritizes work, quick learner, and committed to results.
  • Leadership Ability: Strong communicator, decision-maker, and collaborative.
  • Problem Solver: Analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, and critical thinker.

Why Join GE Aerospace?
As a FLIGHT DECK Leader, you will play a critical role in advancing GE Aerospace’s lean transformation and defining the future of flight. You will have the opportunity to lead impactful initiatives, coach teams, and drive measurable improvements that align with the company’s vision to deliver exceptional value to customers and shareholders.

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. 

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General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.​

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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