FLIGHT DECK (Lean) Specialist

Job Description Summary

The FLIGHT DECK Specialist supports lean transformation efforts across manufacturing operations at the McAllen Repair Shop (Focusing in one Value Stream) to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and inventory performance. This role partners closely with operations, engineering, and cross-functional teams to drive the application of FLIGHT DECK Fundamentals across the shop floor.

The position requires strong technical and operational knowledge, the ability to influence at all levels of the organization and demonstrated experience leading sustainable lean improvements in a manufacturing environment.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Drive the understanding and application of FLIGHT DECK lean principles, behaviors, and tools
• Connect the Voice of the Customer (VOC) to Targets to Improve (TTIs) and KPIs using Leader Standard Work (LSW)
• Partner with cross-functional teams at the genba (shop floor)
• Support site operating rhythms, including daily management, action planning, and Levels 6 and 7 reviews
• Improve and sustain key performance indicators (KPIs) and standard work across the shop-floor processes
• Implement and sustain 5S and visual management standards and controls across the shop-floor
• Lead kaizen events, structured problem solving, and the implementation of future-state value stream maps (VSMs) and transformation plans

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university (or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 4 years of experience facilitating lean transformation in a manufacturing environment)

Desired Characteristics and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Industrial, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering)
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed 
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
• 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.

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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

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). Employees may also be subject to random and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol testing.