Airfoil Casting Readiness Leader

Job Description SummaryAre you ready to see your future take flight? At GE Aerospace, we are advancing aviation technologies for today and tomorrow. Your work will contribute to the production of advanced jet engines, components, and integrated systems that power commercial and military aircraft. You’ll be part of a team that embraces your drive, your curiosity, and your unique ideas and perspectives. Most importantly, you’ll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world!
As the Airfoil Castings Readiness Leader, you will co-develop and implement processes relating to readiness and capacity with airfoils castings suppliers. In this role, you will lead the implementation of this process with specific airfoils casting suppliers ensuring that there is cadence and proactive problem solving in the space. The goal for this role will be to ensure there is an understanding of current state and a plan to meet global requirements from this commodity as demand increases over a rolling 5-year window. The role requires high levels of evaluative judgment and operational acumen to achieve desired business outcomes.
This role requires up to 10% travel.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Central Readiness team to learn and implement the readiness process within the Castings Commodity
• Develop relationships within the commodity, supplier(s), and part family
• Build models of airfoil casting capacity at various stages of the value chain to visualize the constraints in a quantitative way
• Build action plans and apply structured problem solving to alleviate the constraints in conjunction with the Supplier Team
• Engage the commodity leadership team and major stakeholders in regular cadence around readiness and drive action plan execution with the Supplier Teams & the suppliers themselves to grow capacity
• Communicate supplier’s constraints to be incorporated in S&OP rhythms to respond to demand changes
• Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPI) & standard work for readiness processes at end state within the commodity
• Support daily management processes & standard work for airfoil castings vendors
• Supports TAVS SIOP process for castings
• Utilizes understanding of industry trends to inform decision making process.
• Present business or technical discipline solutions to leaders
• Communicate complex messages and negotiate mainly internally with others to adopt a different point of view
• Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 4 years of Sourcing, Supply Chain, Operations, and/or Project Management experience)
• At least an additional 5 years of experience in Sourcing, Supply Chain, Operations, and/or Project Management

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience influencing cross-functionally to drive successful outcomes
• Experience analyzing and resolving problems
• Experience documenting, planning, marketing, and executing projects or improvements
• Demonstrated ability to build strong internal and external relationships
• Experience leading programs and/or projects
• Established project management skills
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan 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. ​

GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its 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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