Materials and Logistics Quality Leader

GE Aerospace•Erlanger, KY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Materials and Logistics Quality Leader will provide strategic and technical leadership to drive Zero Defect Culture and Proactive Quality across the warehousing and materials network. The person in this role will lead the quality organization for our internal logistics and warehouses as well as partner with leadership to drive continuous improvement and problem-solving advancement. This role will manage critical quality KPIs to the business and coach and drive towards KPI improvement action plans.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, or related field
Minimum 10 years of quality, engineering, manufacturing, or related experience
Ability to travel 25-30%

Nice To Haves

People Leader experience
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a strong ability to interact and engage at all levels of the organization from the shop floor to senior leadership
Understanding of GE Aerospace quality policies and procedures
Proven leader in driving Continuous Improvement
Strong Problem-solving and FLIGHT DECK application experience
Strong program and project management skills
Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
Focused: adaptive learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed
Practitioner of Advanced Product Quality Planning in a supply chain environment

Responsibilities

Assure performance to Key Performance Indicators in delivered and process quality.
Quality leadership defines and leads the implementation of the quality org, processes, DM, and visualization to align to our Aerospace quality management system.
Drive adherence to quality deliverables associated with product line and customer requirements.
Maintain strong regulatory compliance across the logistics network including regulatory and customer audit.
Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems that impact the function. Has ability to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders. Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations. Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
Owner of Zero-Defect Culture and Proactive Quality for logistics operations.
Collaborate with logistics leadership including reaching in to key leaders at the manufacturing and supplier sites on top-level improvement priorities.
Champion the Lean Transformation in logistics quality operations, providing subject matter expertise on methods and tools such as problem-solving.
Lead a local and remote/decentralized team of quality professionals across our materials warehouses.
Partner with Materials plant leaders and with the cross-functional shop and supplier quality teams to drive priorities and continuous improvement.
Work closely with horizontal teams in programs, design engineering, shop operations, product support engineering, customer teams, and extended quality organization.
Coach/mentor team on an ongoing basis.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace
Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants
tuition assistance
adoption assistance
paid parental leave
disability insurance
life insurance
paid time-off for vacation or illness