**Job Description Summary**:
**Essential Responsibilities**
Key responsibilities include:
- ELT partner and lean coach supporting the Aeroderivative ITR process owner(s) to help develop the process design strategy and prioritize improvements.
- Define and manage the portfolio of Kaizen/AWOs and lean projects to address business level hoshin plan; define budgetary needs, timing, resource demand, etc and facilitate execution of the projects & AWOs throughout the year
- Coordinate monthly operating reviews with the Aeroderivative ITR leader to gauge performance of the value stream with regard to Safety, Quality, Delivery & Cost
- Determine need for PSRs based on current trend analysis of process KPIs and known issues pertaining to the value stream
- Facilitate completion of the PSRs in a timely manner following the standard work (problem definition, causal analysis, countermeasure development & implementation, sustainment)
- Promote a culture of "Lean Thinking" among the Engineering People Leaders focused on Servant Leadership, Customer Focus and Employee Empowerment
- Develop expertise and experience in the applicable Lean models, concepts and tools across the Engineering organizations
- Facilitate and ensure the linkage of Lean improvements to real financial impact;
- Drive the necessary process standardization/harmonization for one integrated and streamlined Gas Power Engineering organization
**Qualifications / Requirements**
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an accredited university or college OR relevant experience to the level of responsibility
- Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in successfully managing programs/projects or driving continuous improvement initiatives
**Desired Characteristics**
- Self-directed agent who can prioritize & manage a multitude of parallel projects, initiatives, activities to deliver results
- Proven to be effective driving outcomes in a large, globally matrixed organization
- Demonstrates the GE Leadership Behaviors: Act with Humility, Lead with Transparency, and Deliver with Focus
- Critical, systems thinker with the ability to bring others along, even those with conflicting priorities
- Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement
- Comfortable with conflict but leads as a collaborator, facilitator and strong partner
- Energizer who acts autonomously & engages others to make the impossible possible in times of huge change & opportunity
- Customer advocate who continuously strives to simplify & streamline processes to reduce costs, create capacity & deliver increased customer value
- Data-driven but decisive despite ambiguity
- Engineering or leadership experience in the power generation industry and related to the value stream
Demonstrated ability to coach and teach Lean tools to others
- Practical knowledge of Six Sigma DMAIC, TOPS 8D or other problem-solving techniques
- Appropriate experience driving business transformation and / or lean adoption, preferably within an Engineering organization
- Clear, concise written and oral communications to the appropriate level
**Additional Information**:**
Relocation Assistance Provided**:No