Sourcing Quality Operations Leader

Job Description Summary

Managers who have responsibility across multiple job families (eg. Quality Assurance & Quality Control). Have direct reports (or dotted line reports). Should be used for regional or product line scope.

Interprets simple internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may influence work.

Job Description

• Design and develop the operating system to support our quality performance priorities and strategy. This will include Sourcing Quality MORs, WORs, and support of Daily Management.
• Drive problem solving for Sourcing quality KPI gaps across the enterprise.
• Drive strategic breakthrough with Zero Defect transformation in partnership with the Part Family Quality Leaders.
• Serve as a coach, facilitator, educator, advocate, and accountability partner to the cross-functional quality team to drive to standards resulting in effective and efficient problem solving of quality disruptions and manufacturing defects.
• Coach the Sourcing quality team to FLIGHT DECK standards to advance our problem-solving skills.
• Partner closely with other divisions/functions to prioritize and improve critical processes across Aerospace.
• Share best practices across Quality.
• Manage and drive kaizen processes to enable continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in operations or large-scale project/program management
• Models the GE Behaviors (Humility, Transparency, Focus): this is mission-critical for all GE executives as an enabler for continuous improvement.

Desired Characteristics and Experience:

• Experience successfully driving change at scale.
• Knowledge of and experience in aerospace manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of quality processes, systems, and impact to business results and priorities.
• Demonstrated ability of solving complex problems through the application of Lean
• Hands-on experience driving process improvement in a leadership role.
• Results orientation – must deliver sustainable results.
• Ability to accurately assess key business metrics and situations from a senior leader perspective.
• Able to influence others. Highly credible.
• Collaborative, team orientation – knows when to lead and when to follow.
• Customer focused and demonstrated a high sense of urgency.
• Impactful communicator from the shop floor to the senior leadership levels.

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)).

Additional Information

- This is a remote position

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