FLIGHT DECK Leader - OWS Seoul

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Company Overview:

Are you ready to see your career take flight? At GE Aerospace, we believe the world works better when it flies. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. We have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen.

Site Overview:

On Wing Support Korea was launched in 2000 at Gimpo Airport. Recognizing the growing need for support, we expanded the center in 2013. It was relocated to the Gimpo Aerospace Industrial Complex with enhanced quick-turn service capabilities for large engines. One of seven global centers, it serves as a crucial hub for quick-turn and real-time services in Asia Pacific to keep our customers flying.

Role Overview:

• Lead, facilitate, educate, advocate, consult and act as needed with the OWS Site team to drive the understanding and application of FLIGHT DECK

• Collaborate with FLIGHT DECK Leader peers across OWS and the broader GE Aerospace team to share learning and improvement experience for the benefit of others, identify opportunities for the site from the shared learnings of others, progress our lean culture and drive FLIGHT DECK activation.

• Develop, lead and manage a multi-year Site FLIGHT DECK Transformation Roadmap, and contribute to the same objective for OWS globally.

• Contribute to site’s operating goal achievement by facilitating and coaching the use of KPI based performance management.

• Be a champion of kaizen and facilitate kaizen events to drive improvements.

• Coach, mentor and develop organizational competencies to drive effective KPI’s, action plans, and problem solving to assure results are achieved and sustained.  Coach all aspect of FLIGHT DECK to drive standard and impactful application.

• Coach and mentor model cell implementations and work with the sites to scale through creation of robust transformation plans that assure breakthrough results.

• Partner with the ATMRO FLIGHT DECK operations team and ATMRO leaders to quickly deploy new, best-practice capability and process across ATMRO network.  Key contributor to the development and implementation of FLIGHT DECK operating system.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is preferred to possess the mindset of 1) Collaborative 2) Proactive and 3) Altruistic.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent experience.

• Experience applying a lean operating system including Daily Management, KPI Performance Management, Problem Solving, Action Planning and Continuous Improvement within an industrial environment.

• Flexibility to collaborate globally, accommodating communication with colleagues in an organisation spanning 14 hours’ time zone variance, and international travel expected to not exceed 4 weeks per year.

Preferred Qualifications

• Operations management and/or lean practitioner experience within an aircraft engine maintenance environment, or another industrial services sector.

• Interest and demonstrated ability in complex problem solving.

• Lean practitioner, capable of leading and facilitating kaizen events.

• Highly collaborative person, 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, with ability to work with all levels of the organization.

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

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