Repair Operation Manager

Job description / Role

Job Description Summary
Perform the daily operations of plants to ensure reliability and consistency on the production line. Includes Service Shops. The role has some autonomy but is focused on execution of activities within an operating discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Some judgment may be required but this is typically with guidance.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities
- Manage an operation, business, unit, or part of a production facility in order to reach defined targets in quality, cost, delivery and safety.
- Ensure continuous business improvement according to benchmarks and standards.
- Team management of salaried employees.
- Developing in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline.
- Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute policy/strategy.
- In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
- Lead the implementation of a new lean line / improve an existing line to ensure reliability and consistency on the production line.
- Partner with the Plant Leadership team and develop a customer-based process improvement strategy, which drives safety, customer responsiveness, lead time reduction, productivity and quality improvement in line with business/functional objectives
- Expected to resolve problems through the application of acquired expertise and in coordination with the functional leaders and the shop manager
- Uses some level of judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters but with guidance.
- Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks.
- Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems.
- May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.
- A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor with proven interpersonal skills or an early people leader who can hire and develop talent.
- Provides informal guidance to new team members

Requirements

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.
- This role requires advanced experience in the Manufacturing & Operation Management.
- Strong Lean skills / leading change and driving sustainable improvement.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Established project management skills.
- Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.

Desired Characteristics
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Lean and Six Sigma training is preferred.
- Knowledge of financial drivers and systems in a P&L.
- Strong customer advocate.
- Prior experience managing an hourly paid workforce is preferred.
- Strong oral and written communications skills.
- Prior experience with gas turbine components repair processes.

Additional Information
- Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

About the Company

GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company, dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and oil and gas, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 300,000 people worldwide.

GE's Oil & Gas business is a leader in the development and delivery of advanced product and service offerings for the global oil and gas industry. As a consequence of the rapid expansion of its technology base, GE's Oil & Gas is capable of addressing the largest and most complex engineering and application challenges entirely from its own worldwide resources. So whether it's the world's largest LNG compression trains, re-injection of high sulfur gas, enhancing the safety and productivity of the world's oil and gas pipelines, or equipment for the production of oil and gas from harsh environments, GE is leading the charge.