Digital Operations Site Leader

4 weeks ago


Cheltenham, United Kingdom General Electric Full time

**Job Description Summary**: As the Digital Operations Site Leader, you will be responsible for leading the day-to-day operations for the GE Aerospace Defense & Systems Cheltenham location as part of the Digital Operations team. In this role, you will partner with the local leadership team, defining the digital strategy for the site and supporting DT operations. This role requires strong project, interpersonal, leadership, compliance and change skills. You will report functionally to the Defense & Systems Digital Operations Leader and operationally to the Site Senior Leadership Team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Act as Senior DT Leader for GE Aerospace Defense & Systems Cheltenham site.
- You will work with the appropriate teams and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to support Digital Operations at the site. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners and Developers.
- Deploy and support Operational Technology Network (OTN), engaging with Manufacturing Engineering, Test Equipment and third party teams as necessary.
- You will identify opportunities for necessary changes and pursue/lead them when appropriate, evaluate progress and involve peers and team members in analysing strengths and weaknesses in performance. You will be responsible for working with stakeholders to embrace the implications of change.
- Actively engage with the business to participate in lean/process improvement initiatives & enable business transformation leveraging digital tools.
- Work on cross-functional projects/teams to deliver technology solutions for the business.
- Strong communication and influencing skills ensuring stakeholder alignment, operating in lock-step with DT Leadership.
- Evaluate new technologies (office automation and collaboration tools, mobile devices, wearables, etc. ) to improve overall employee experience and increase productivity.
- Partner with the other Defense & Systems Digital Operations Leaders, including UK Client and Infrastructure Leaders to support operational issues and project directives.
- Manage the local DT budget and identify projects to optimize DT spend.
- Coordinate and Communicate all Change Management and Risk Management Activities.
- Initiates technology obsolescence and improvement projects.
- Maintain culture of compliance with DT and across business stakeholders; working with ACTR and other SME groups to maintain an environment which is fully compliant with Cyber Essentials and CMMC requirements.
- Use high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems in areas of operational, product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering.

**Education Qualification**

**Desired Characteristics**:

- Strong listening skills and attention to detail, needed to understand business needs
- Strong business acumen / influencing skills to drive action with stakeholders and DT partners
- Experience using lean six-sigma problem solving methodologies

Business Acumen:

- Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
- Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
- Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
- Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment

Leadership:

- Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
- Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
- Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.

Personal Attributes:

- Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
- Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
- Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

**Flexible Working**

GE supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance.

**Total Reward**

At GE Aviation we understand the importance of Total Reward. Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savi



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