Operations Manager

Job Description Summary

Lead the daily operations of plant, leveraging Lean principles to ensure reliability and consistency on the production line and distribution operations for our customers. Includes Customer Service teams. Impacts the team’s ability to achieve service, quality, and timeliness of objectives. The role is subject to operating policy objectives. There is moderate autonomy within the role. High levels of operational judgment are required to achieve outcomes required.

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Job Description

Key responsibilities/essential functions include:

• Driving distribution and manufacturing teams, in US and/or Mexico, towards execution of Business Goals using Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing methodology.
• Ensuring sufficient capacity exists to achieve all customer commitments per the OPSI plan.
• Driving Product Quality, Six Sigma, and Lean so that internal business metrics are met.
• Manage an operation, business, unit, or part of a production facility in order to reach defined targets in quality, cost, delivery and safety. Ensure continuous business improvement according to benchmarks and standards. Team management of salaried employees.
• Manages a small to medium team of senior professionals as well as others. Requires specialized knowledge within the function. Influence the development of strategy for the area of responsibility, including control of resources and influences policy formulation.
• Interprets simple internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may inform work.
• Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems in areas of operational, product management, manufacturing, technology, or engineering. 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.
• May lead functional teams or projects with minimal resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Communicates difficult concepts and may influence others' options on particular topics. May guide others to consider a different point of view.
• Comply with EHS regulations and policies; identify and report any EHS concern and support on corrective actions.

Quality Expectations:

• Complete all planned Quality & Compliance training within the defined deadlines.
• Identify and report any quality or compliance concerns and support corrective actions.
  

Required Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Engineering / Business Administration or similar
• 5 years of experience with leadership in manufacturing or supply chain role
• Bilingual
• Ability to learn complex systems and business processes and define requirements for solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Mentoring and coaching abilities, demonstrated ability to motivate & inspire others
• Clear thinker: Simplifying strategy into specific actions with clear accountability, making decisions with speed & accuracy based on best available information & communicating priorities clearly & concisely

• Leadership, energizing teams, and project management
• Ability to motivate and maintain high moral, employee involvement, safety and teamwork
• Six Sigma trained with ability to apply tools and process rigor
• Ability to deliver results in an ambiguous environment
• Change agent with energy, passion & enthusiasm to drive change
• Interpersonal, teamwork & networking skills
• External Focus: Understanding customer needs, marketplace dynamics, industry trends, & the competitive landscape in the industry/function & considering the external impact of business activities & decisions on the external environment
• Master Degree / MBA
• APICS Certification
• Medical Quality Regulatory experience
• EHS / VPP Regulation experience
• Experience with Warehouse Management System / Customer Service / Logistics

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership –always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.