Production Control Leader

Job Description Summary

When you come to work at the GE Aerospace Airfoils facility in Greenville, you’ll come to realize that you’re in a place where you can do your best. We’re producing High Pressure Turbine Blades that help power tomorrow’s commercial and military aircraft. We’re using innovative production methodologies including complex machining, special processes, and NDT.

The Production Control Leader (5th Shift) will ensure reliability and consistency of daily operations on the production line to ensure customer needs are met. As the Production Control leader at GE Aerospace, you will coach and supervise all direct reports within the business segment to support production. You will also provide on-going support in implementing technical, practice and procedural solutions to improve Safety, Quality and Delivery. You will be responsible for scheduling resources, providing technical and people leadership, and facilitating the flow of throughput to meet customer requirements and promises. This position will require you to comply with internal safety, quality system, business policies, and regulatory requirements, support business goals and objectives. You will also mentor, facilitate and enhance a teamwork-oriented culture via coaching, feedback, and creative solutions to drive morale and enhance overall team and company culture through people leadership.

Job Description

This is a 5th Shift Position covering Weekend Nights: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Create, executes, and monitor production plans according to the appropriate instructions
• Coach, develop, and supervise hourly production employees
• Drive a positive shop floor culture focused on safety, quality, delivery, and employee engagement, emphasizing team cohesion and morale
• Ensure and promote safety as a job priority throughout the plant
• Perform administrative duties to support the business segment, including time and attendance, labor vouchers, disciplinary actions, missing time corrections, etc.
• Execute production through resource allocation, critical part execution, and collaboration with production team
• Coordinates the day-to-day interface with cell management, technical resources, and maintenance, ensuring smooth operations and addressing immediate issues
• Collaborate across teams and shifts (Engineering, Quality, Materials, Maintenance, and Operations) to identify and implement technical solutions to improve losses and productivity metrics by reducing costs and improving quality and throughput
• Practice sound human relations and communications skills to motivate, develop and drive a self-directed workforce culture
• Coach associates on issues such as employee relations and conflict resolution
• Engage employees to understand business goals, meet production requirements, and value their individual contribution
• Collaborate with FLIGHT DECK team to develop and implement Lean process improvement initiatives to increase productivity, reduce cycle time, and reduce manufacturing losses
• Collaborate with Maintenance and Engineering to analyze and diagnose equipment and tooling problems and coordinate corrective measures to minimize downtime and interruption of schedules

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university (or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 4 years of Manufacturing experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of Manufacturing experience

Desired Characteristics:

• Project management experience
• Machining experience
• Managing shop operations experience
• Adaptability to changing roles, responsibilities, and priorities, indicating a dynamic and flexible approach to managing production operations
• Strong experience with computers
• Experience analyzing and resolving problems
• Experience documenting, planning, marketing, and executing programs
• 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

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

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