Job Description Summary

As the Client CIO to the Plant manager, the site leader is responsible for ensuring that DT and Factory priorities are aligned, and for partnering with site leadership to determine where can DT further enhance operations with technology that align with the priorities of the site. The site leader will be responsible for staying informed of the latest industry trends and leading practices; promoting these internally to stretch and challenge current thinking / approaches. The Client CIO will be responsible for identifying information and insights that are relevant other teams and proactively shares it; breaks downs silos to connect needs and solutions across teams / functions.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

Owns wing-to-wing execution of technical projects to deliver high quality outcomes to internal and external customers. Partners with functional product owner to define features backlog and requirements, works with technical team internal and external to the initiative to ensure outcomes delivery on time, within scope and budget and of desired quality. Makes sure project management practices are followed and improved as needed.  Manages expectations and timelines to keep customers informed, working across teams in a regularly way.

Work cross-functionally to manage factory priorities, issues and translating the demand, through Lean / Kanban principles, to features and functions that need to be delivered across the IT matrix and IT platforms to improve factory performance. Including, but not limited to IT/OT infrastructure, shop floor support, operations technology, MES, ERP, quality tools, and materials/warehouse mgmt.

Ensures business critical information is cascaded to the team in a timely manner.

Participate in Lean Action workouts to ensure that physical changes to material flow is represented in the supporting systems and that new capabilities are developed in concert with the Lean transformation. 

Act as a first line internal customer to ensure that global and local priorities are considered when ‘catching’ products/programs/projects delivered or led by external IT teams

Serve the leadership community by develop their digital literacy both in general terms and regarding to the product portfolio of GE Gas Power

As a partner to Application owners, vendors, and AppOps leaders, ensure that the tools that ‘run’ the manufacturing plant are effectively supported, including but not limited to: 

• Daily trouble-shooting of critical issues  Application upgrades, patching and ‘doing’ Release Management and Change Management per ITIL best practices  Drive the provisioning and operationalization of hardware, IT/OT changes, new 3rd party software.  Supervise and direct vendors
• Supervise MSS Tech in terms of daily priorities and providing guidance.
• Mange asset inventory and data quality with specific focus on cyber security and data protection.
• Implement and manage critical cyber controls per policy for access, asset, and vulnerability management.  As a product owner for selected products, work closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Lean and Quality functions to innovate, prototype, design, build, and support Operations Technology products that automate the data flow and optimize the physical manufacturing processes through contemporary Cloud and Edge Information 

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) 
• Minimum Years of Experience: 5
• Prior experience in at least one software engineering discipline, is mandatory. 

Desired Characteristics

• Possess a passion for supply chain and manufacturing that demonstrably makes tangible improvements in operations technology and software to drive automation of manufacturing methods 
• Able to bridge and converge Information Technology with Operations Technology
• MES Deployment experience
• Basic knowledge of networking technologies and topologies as well as information security
• Strong team player – collaborates well with others to solve problems and actively incorporates input from various sources
• Experience working with others on a global basis 
• Applies knowledge to coach and mentor others 
• Demonstrated customer focus – evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer, builds strong customer relationships, creates processes with customer viewpoint and partners with customers to help shape their future initiatives 
• Strong analytical and strong problem solving skills -communicates in a clear and succinct manner and effectively evaluates information / data to make decisions, ant