Senior Lean Leader

Job Description Summary

Coach, drive and lead lean behaviors, principles, and tools across a operational or functional area. Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in operational business metrics.

Job Description

Company Overview

Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas, we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight!

Site Overview

GE Aerospace Engine Services Malaysia (GEESM) in Subang plays a vital role in ensuring the safety and performance of aviation fleets every day. Established in 1997 as a Center of Excellence for CFM56 engines, GEESM has grown into a key hub of our global operations. It now services commercial aircraft engines, components, and accessories.

Employing more than 700 highly skilled local professionals and providing MRO services to more than 50 airlines worldwide, GEESM continues to exceed our customers’ expectations. With our technical expertise and pioneering spirit, we elevate the flying experience to new heights.

Role Overview

The Business Lean Leader is responsible for transforming GE’s results through the application of FLIGHT DECK, GE Aerospace’s proprietary, lean-based management system. Specifically, the Business Lean Leader will work closely as a partner with the site leadership team to implement Lean practices, driving both a change in operating mindset and ensuring the Lean and management system fundamentals of FLIGHT DECK are effectively applied in support of strategic and operational business plans. The primary responsibility of this position is to develop the proficiency of the leadership team and employees in applying these fundamentals to continuously improve our Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost performance.

Essential Responsibilities

• The Business Lean Leader will serve as a facilitator, educator, advocate, consultant and accountability partner to the Business teams to drive the understanding and application FLIGHT DECK to drive better results. FLIGHT DECK is the proprietary, Lean-based management system that GE Aerospace has developed to continuously improve the business. It incorporates Standard Work, Value Stream Management, Kaizen with Lean techniques and Daily Management into an operating cadence where problem solving and action planning are employed to transform outcomes; all centered on Respect for the People that create value for our customers.
• Collaborate with the leadership team to assess the critical value streams, processes and practices as compared to lean company benchmarks, both internal and external, establish a transformation plan based on the prioritized gaps as context for the application of kaizen events.
• Be an active participant and contribute hands-on to the lean efforts across the organization.
• Design and build organizational capacity and self-sufficiency with the FLIGHT DECK fundamentals needed to transform the key value streams through kaizen events.
• Assist the leadership team in establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) and implementing a robust daily management system to drive continuous improvement.
• Assist teams in establishing daily, weekly and monthly operating cadences per the FLIGHT DECK fundamentals.
• Develop a culture of problem solving at all levels of the organization and proficiency with problem solving techniques appropriate for each level.
• Establish a kaizen event rhythm and leverage that activity to develop lean proficiency for all employees; creating internal capabilities to facilitate kaizens and sustain continuous process improvement without external support.
• Participate in talent reviews and the hiring process, to advise leaders on the lean development needs of the team and ensure lean proficiency is considered in the hiring decision for all positions.
• As a senior lean leader, you will drive lean transformations and enhance operational efficiency within the Malaysia team by leading initiatives and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You will coach and mentor staff at all levels to ensure effective KPI management and sustainable results.
  
  

The Ideal Candidate

• Seasoned Lean practitioner with over ten years of experience leading operations in mature lean organizations. They should have a proven track record of driving complex business-wide transformations, solving intricate problems, and applying Lean techniques such as Daily Management, Problem Solving, Value Stream Management, and Standard Work.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Ten-plus years of experience leading operations in mature lean companies.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems and transforming results and process through the application of Lean techniques.
• Lean practitioner, capable of facilitating kaizen events and coaching the core tools such as Daily Management, structured Problem Solving, Value Stream Management, Standard Work and Transactional Process Improvement. Experience in transforming process from traditional “batch and queue” to “flow and pull” experience preferred.
• Experience driving business-wide transformation preferably in a major turn-around. The ideal candidate has been through complex change; bringing a will to win with strong followership.
• Proven to be effective driving outcomes in large, matrixed organizations – understands how to navigate geographies, cultures, relationships, etc.
• 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 board room.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
  
  

Whether we are manufacturing components for our engines, driving innovation in fuel and noise reduction, or unlocking new opportunities to grow and deliver more productivity, our GE Aerospace teams are dedicated and making a global impact. Join us and help move the aerospace industry forward.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes