Manufacturing Launch Manager

Job Description Summary

Drives initiatives to improve the effectiveness of the Engineering function and interfaces with other functions to provide effective coordination of metrics, dashboards, functional processes, and cross-functional initiative coordination. Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end launch execution for major projects implemented at the Batesville plant.
• Develop and maintain a master launch plan with key milestones, owners, due dates, dependencies, and decision points.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across ME, PLN, OP'S, FIN, EHS, QE, SRC, and MNT to ensure project readiness and timely issue closure.
• Establish and lead regular launch operating rhythms including status reviews, action tracking, readiness reviews, and escalation meetings.
• Drive site readiness for equipment, tooling, staffing, training, materials, documentation, and process control requirements.
• Identify and manage project risks related to safety, quality, delivery, cost, schedule, supply continuity, and capacity.
• Escalate critical issues and decision needs to plant leadership with clear impact statements and recovery recommendations.
• Partner with Finance to monitor project budgets, spending outlook, and cost risks.
• Partner with Planning and Operations to ensure launch schedules align with production requirements and capacity constraints.
• Partner with Engineering and Quality to ensure process readiness, validation requirements, and control plans are completed before launch.
• Partner with EHS and Maintenance to ensure facility, equipment, and environmental/safety readiness.
• Ensure launch performance and decision-making are communicated clearly to stakeholders through dashboards, summaries, and milestone reviews.
• Lead startup support and post-launch stabilization activities until performance objectives are achieved.
• Capture lessons learned and standardize best practices for future launches.
• This role will act as the key industrialization support for the plant in planning and presenting status of all hard capacity / layouts / etc.. to meet project timing.
• This role will work with Business Leaders to determine soft capacity needs, timing and hiring / training plans to meet project timing.
• Reporting out on project status, timelines, action plans, etc… will be required.  Recovery plans and options to mitigate project delays will be a normal expectation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university (or a high school diploma/GED with a minimum of 4 years project mangement experience experience
• Minimum of 5 years manufacturing leadership experience

Desired Characteristics

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.
  
  

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

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.