Lean Transformation Leader

3 weeks ago

Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom GE Aviation Full time
Job Description

GE Aviation is seeking a highly skilled Lean Transformation Leader to join our team. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for driving business-wide transformation and implementing Lean principles to improve our Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost performance.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement a multi-year continuous improvement program to eliminate waste, improve customer satisfaction, and increase market share.
  • Lead and execute strategic, cross-functional projects with high visibility and impact to the operations.
  • Manage and facilitate all Continuous Improvement initiatives and strategy.
  • Drive a continuous improvement culture within the organization by prioritizing opportunities and execution of a Lean transformation strategy and metrics.
  • Use metrics to provide support to process owners in linking projects to strategic operational objectives.
  • Drive plant cost savings initiatives.
  • Assist teams in developing Lean roadmaps to use in the deployment of strategic objectives.
  • Ensure successful definition and execution of large, cross-functional improvement initiatives tied to annual strategic priorities and capex.
  • Identify best practices within and outside the company and serve as a channel for best-practice sharing and adoption across business units.
  • Provide guidance for projects and kaizen events.
  • Challenging organizational leaders when necessary to create an action-based culture of continuous improvement and increase CI and Lean-oriented thinking throughout the organization.
  • Work with the finance department to evaluate project savings estimates, validate reported CI benefits, and ensure accurate accounting of CI productivity.
  • Be an active participant and contribute hands-on to the lean efforts across the organization.
  • Responsible for design and build organizational capacity and self-sufficiency with the Lean fundamentals needed to transform the key value streams through kaizen events.
  • Support the leadership team in establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) and implementing a robust daily management system to drive continuous improvement.
Essential Skills
  • Significant experience in large businesses (Automotive, Aerospace, etc), high-paced and changing environments.
  • Previous demonstrated experience in Lean / Continuous Improvement of processes/shop operations by applying Lean principles.
  • Lean practitioner, capable of facilitating kaizen events and coaching the core tools of Lean.
  • Experience driving business-wide transformation preferably in a major turn-around.
  • Proven to be effective driving outcomes in large, matrixed organizations - understands Change agent, able to make the case for lean and demonstrate immediate impact.
  • Highly collaborative, comfortable with conflict and debate normally associated with change.
  • Critical thinker with the ability to bring others along, even those with conflicting priorities.
  • Impactful communicator from the shop floor to executives.
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Suite, including advanced skills with Excel.
  • Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn.
  • Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively.
  • Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed.
Desired Skills
  • Degree level, process management, operations, industrial engineering, or engineering management.
  • Experience in process optimization, operations, or business management.
  • Advanced skills in the use of data management tools to monitor progress toward goals.
  • Certifications in quality or CI.

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