Plant Manager

Role Summary:

This Plant Manager role will be responsible for leading plant manufacturing operations for the Long Island NY facility and the Pompano Beach site . If you have an entrepreneurial mindset and previous experience in a manufacturing or supply chain leadership role this is the perfect opportunity for you. You will have full P&L responsibility for this site that produces power conversion products and cockpit control assemblies and panels primarily for our military business.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Continually improve key plant metrics
• Conduct employee performance reviews
• Establish and direct plant policies and procedures
• Meet plant production and quality goals
• Have a strong focus on employee relations
• Foster well-trained and motivated staff
• Select, train and develop plant supervisory and administrative staff
• Ensure sufficient capacity exists to achieve all customer commitments
• Be responsible for driving continuous improvements in factory yield
• Drive Product Quality and Lean to ensure that internal business metrics are met
• Develop & create training plans to maximize workforce capability
• Establish all production schedules and meet customer’s delivery and quality expectations
• Drive operations team towards execution of Business Goals using Lean Manufacturing methodology
• Provide leadership for executing New Product Introductions, with strong collaboration with engineering design
• Monitor & improve cost productivity while ensuring all customer commitments are met in a timely, quality & compliant manner
• Schedule and conduct plant meetings; foster employee engagement and ensure that business and operational goals are effectively communicated to employees
• Promote a working environment that encourages employee involvement to achieve excellence in productivity, customer service, quality, inventory and Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in a manufacturing or supply chain role (Including leadership experience)
• Previous experience in lean manufacturing or six sigma

Desired Characteristics:

• Proven leadership skills (experience successfully managing people / projects / issues)
• Master’s Degree in Manufacturing / Business / Engineering from an accredited university or college
• Six sigma certification or equivalent quality certification
• Proven mentoring and coaching abilities, demonstrated ability to motivate and inspire others
• Ability to build relationships with all levels across the plant
• Demonstrated ability to set and manage competing priorities to drive key deliverables in a fast paced & dynamic environment
• Demonstrated ability to shape and drive culture including safety mindset
• Demonstrated ability to bring individual leaders and employees together to drive for collective goals
• Demonstrated ability to work across a matrix organization and leverage resources within the broader business
• Demonstrated ability to foster healthy debate and manage through difficult conversations
• Knowledge of the disciplines of manufacturing management such as production and inventory control, variable cost productivity, and fulfillment metrics, quality systems, cost systems, and fulfillment metrics, and procedures
• Demonstrated capability in employee relations
• Demonstrated leadership, energizing teams and project management
• Lean trained with demonstrated ability to apply tools and process rigor
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results in a complex, global, unique and sometimes ambiguous environment
• Proven ability to prioritize, plan and execute important business and supply chain initiatives
• Demonstrated ability able to influence and communicate well with all levels of the organization, including senior leadership
• Clear, strategic, and critical thinker; proven experience in translating strategies into actionable plans

About Us:

GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers. www.ge.com
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

GE 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). This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to access to export-controlled technology. GE will require proof of status prior to employment.

Additional Locations:

United States;New York;Long Island;