Global Engineering Operations – Lean Leader
Switzerland Global Enterprise
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Niskayuna • Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $197,600 - $296,400 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Act as a lean champion and an innovative thought leader for engineering, focused on driving standardization, simplification and digitalization for the product development lifecycle
- Work closely with exponential technology teams, including AI and Robotics, to ensure deployment, adoption, sustained usage, and measurable value capture for these technologies across engineering, manufacturing and functional organizations
- Facilitate cross-functional kaizen events focused on high-impact areas
- Ensure standard work, root cause analysis, and sustainable countermeasures are embedded
- Capture and disseminate best practices across GE Vernova’s portfolio
- Act as a knowledge integrator to support replication of successful approaches
- Work with business units and people operations to develop the required talent profile, engineering skillsets and strategy for meeting GE Vernova’s engineering talent needs for the next decade
- Support co-ordination of critical activities across the CTO organization when required
- Work with DT to develop and implement a robust reporting infrastructure across the end-to-end product development lifecycle, extracting data from appropriate systems to provide real time actionable insights on our product development efficiency and effectiveness
- Provide valuable insights and direction on opportunities for investments, synergies and enhancements across the engineering operations
- Support CTO organization with hands-on quality improvement projects aligned to strategic priorities and Hoshin Kanri (Strategy Deployment) objectives
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in a relevant field/discipline
- 10+ years of experience working across engineering, operations and manufacturing, supply chain and sales, with a proven track record influencing across the end-to-end product development process
- Lean practitioner with proven experience leading quality and Lean transformation initiatives in complex industrial environments
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate kaizen events and deploy standard work to create successful sustainable changes
- Some familiarity with ISO 9001, APQP, and other quality management systems
- Hands-on experience with RCA tools, and operational excellence frameworks
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
- Access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling, and referral services
- Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants
- Tuition assistance
- Adoption assistance
- Paid parental leave
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time-off for vacation or illness
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
lean transformationquality improvementroot cause analysiskaizen facilitationdata extractionreporting infrastructureoperational excellence frameworksstandard work deploymentdigitalizationproduct development lifecycle
Soft skills
thought leadershipcross-functional collaborationknowledge integrationtalent developmentstrategic prioritizationcommunicationinfluencingproblem-solvinginnovationcoordination