GE Aerospace
Composites Obeya Leader - GE9X Rate Attainment
The Composites Obeya Leader - GE9X Rate Attainment will support the Value Stream Integration Leader in driving cross-functional integration, prioritization, escalation, alignment, and collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Safety. This position requires a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team. This role will focus on leading the Composites Part Family to ramp to the required rate for GE9X. This role will own the current and future state value stream maps for all composite parts on GE9X. The role will develop and manage action plans to achieve the future state. Roles and Responsibilities
Safety:
Ensure all activities comply with GE Aerospace's safety standards and regulations. Promote a culture of safety within the team and across the organization. Quality:
Maintain high-quality standards in all deliverables. Conduct thorough reviews and inspections to ensure compliance with industry and company standards. Delivery:
Manage and prioritize tasks to meet project deadlines and deliverables. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely completion of projects. Cost:
Identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements. Implement best practices to optimize resource utilization and reduce waste. Specific Duties
Support Prioritization and Escalation: 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. Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement: Participate in problem-solving teams to solve 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. Cross-Functional Collaboration: 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. Capacity Building and Predictive Modeling: 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. Customer Focus: Understand internal and external customer needs and ensure that critical customer components are prioritized and addressed effectively. Obeya Leadership: 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. Lean Coaching and Cultural Transformation: 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. Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university At least 5 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience Desired Qualifications
Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA), Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field. Certification in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or Project Management (e.g., PMP, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt). 10+ years of experience in aviation manufacturing, composites, or related industries. Deep knowledge of composite materials and processes, including Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC). Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization. Experience managing large-scale projects or programs with significant complexity and resource requirements. Demonstrated ability to develop and execute long-term business strategies. Experience with capacity planning, forecasting, and resource optimization Strong understanding of Lean principles, Kaizen, Hoshin Kanri, and continuous improvement methodologies. Familiarity with GE Aerospace's proprietary FLIGHT DECK lean operating model
The Composites Obeya Leader - GE9X Rate Attainment will support the Value Stream Integration Leader in driving cross-functional integration, prioritization, escalation, alignment, and collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Safety. This position requires a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team. This role will focus on leading the Composites Part Family to ramp to the required rate for GE9X. This role will own the current and future state value stream maps for all composite parts on GE9X. The role will develop and manage action plans to achieve the future state. Roles and Responsibilities
Safety:
Ensure all activities comply with GE Aerospace's safety standards and regulations. Promote a culture of safety within the team and across the organization. Quality:
Maintain high-quality standards in all deliverables. Conduct thorough reviews and inspections to ensure compliance with industry and company standards. Delivery:
Manage and prioritize tasks to meet project deadlines and deliverables. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely completion of projects. Cost:
Identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements. Implement best practices to optimize resource utilization and reduce waste. Specific Duties
Support Prioritization and Escalation: 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. Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement: Participate in problem-solving teams to solve 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. Cross-Functional Collaboration: 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. Capacity Building and Predictive Modeling: 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. Customer Focus: Understand internal and external customer needs and ensure that critical customer components are prioritized and addressed effectively. Obeya Leadership: 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. Lean Coaching and Cultural Transformation: 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. Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university At least 5 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience Desired Qualifications
Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA), Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field. Certification in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or Project Management (e.g., PMP, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt). 10+ years of experience in aviation manufacturing, composites, or related industries. Deep knowledge of composite materials and processes, including Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC). Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization. Experience managing large-scale projects or programs with significant complexity and resource requirements. Demonstrated ability to develop and execute long-term business strategies. Experience with capacity planning, forecasting, and resource optimization Strong understanding of Lean principles, Kaizen, Hoshin Kanri, and continuous improvement methodologies. Familiarity with GE Aerospace's proprietary FLIGHT DECK lean operating model