Job Description Summary

The Repairs Value Stream (RVS) Leader will have responsibility for providing functional leadership for the global RVS team and driving increased performance to deliver continuous improvements in safety, quality, delivery, and cost while fostering a culture of inclusion and respect. This leader will also maintain strong partnerships across the Global Supply Chain (GSC), Services and the broader Gas Power business.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

Critical objectives and focus areas include the following:

• Provide functional leadership for the RVS team inclusive of 11 plants and ~1600 employees and indirect support to ~10 additional multi-modal sites.
• Drive increased performance with hands-on leadership to deliver step change improvements in safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Integrate Lean practices to increase the continuous improvement focus to support achievement of critical operational and financial goals.
• Lead an execution focused culture, rooted in Lean fundamentals and capabilities, training individuals to build capabilities and scale impact while implementing highest impact Lean approaches in the most relevant business areas.
• Consistently deliver productivity improvements annually through combination of labor productivity, continuous improvement, and optimized processes. Partnering with relevant functions where necessary to enable more widespread productivity gains.
• Work collaboratively with GSC and Gas Power teams to optimize the product portfolio. Proactively support and identify opportunities to enhance product design to quality and design to value efforts as well as portfolio rationalization to improve product quality and decrease costs. Seek out ways to drive product innovation in addition to tightening the link between product, supply chain and service organizations to optimize performance, quality, and cost of the total lifetime of a product.
• Partner closely with sourcing and inventory teams to enable pull-based inventory that delivers the right materials and the right time at the right cost to reduce repair delay time and cost due to inventory. Further optimize inventory cost and quality through coordinated sourcing practices.
• Partner with the Services organization to enhance customer experience, prioritize on key initiatives, and drive business outcomes
• Partner with the Repair Engineering teams (AMRT/RDC) to develop repair standards and processes that maximize customer and business value
• Build alignment with key stakeholders on critical outcomes; serve as a key leader of the GSC business, modeling ownership and accountability for results while collaborating with other senior leaders effectively to do what is best for the overall business.

Position Criteria:

• Safety leadership. Understands safety culture starts with leadership.  Drives operational leadership in EHS and is familiar with the challenges of global site work in implementing safety programs. 
• Operational Acumen. Is equally comfortable driving operational execution (including Lean) as s/he is in developing strategy.  Will establish operating rhythms to drive rigor and focus on the most critical business objectives w/ clear performance indicators and diagnostics for predictive action.
• Supply Chain Domain. Has experience optimizing an operating footprint in accordance with the financial objectives of the business. – including manufacturing, logistics, S&OP, and sourcing in a matrix environment.
• Customer-oriented. Strong track record in achieving/maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction (e.g., OTD, Quality, etc.) and demonstrating success in developing metrics to drive improvements in this area.
• Lead with Lean. Proven experience integrating Lean practices throughout an organization and increasing the continuous improvement focus to support achievement of critical financial goals. Demonstrable ability to establish an execution focused culture, rooted in Lean fundamentals and capabilities.
• Collaboration. Modeling ownership and accountability for results while collaborating with other senior leaders effectively to do what is best for the overall business, including clear communication and leadership behaviors as noted below. Demonstration of holding team accountable to do the same.
• Leadership. Demonstrates the GE Vernova Way. Able to build/coach teams to embrace the culture needed for success.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in supply chain with a