Lead Production Supervisor

**Job Description Summary**: Perform the daily operations by leading a team of skilled workers to ensure reliability and consistency on the production line. The role is focused on execution of activities within an operating discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Some judgment may be required but this is typically with guidance.

**Company Overview**:
Are you ready to see your career take flight? At GE Aerospace, we believe the world works better when it flies. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. We have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen.

**Site Overview**:
For more than 40 years, our advanced facilities in Singapore have led aerospace innovation across Asia Pacific. From automating processes to leveraging smart factory technologies, robotics, and additive manufacturing, GE Aerospace is shaping the future of aviation at GE Aerospace Engine Services Singapore (GEAESS).

GEAESS is our largest site for engine component Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO), responsible for more than 60% of our global repair volume.

**Role Overview**:

- Lead the daily production meetings to assess daily capability to meet Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost objectives.
- Handle day to day people issues - absenteeism, turnover, recruitment, disciplinary investigation & execution, tardiness, accident or incident investigation. Track and coordinate appraisal of technicians.
- Identify production bottlenecks and constraint points; understand available capacity: track labor utilization and efficiency, and ensure these are managed in production to maximize cell output.
- Plan, schedule, update and track training of technicians; Develop training plan within the component such as proper update of OJT record and EHS training requirements.
- Develop and maintain skill matrix for cell that documents skill level of each employee and ensures a cross-training plan is in place to support volume growth.
- Work with Engineers and Lean Specialists to implement quality/productivity/cost out/yield improvement projects in the Cell.
- Handle day to day people issues - turnover, recruitment, disciplinary investigation & execution, tardiness, accident or incident investigation. Track and coordinate appraisal of technicians.
- In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
- Uses some level of judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters but with guidance. Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks. Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.
- Acts as a resource for newly joined colleagues with less experience. Requires to co-lead projects with low risks and resource requirements.

**Required Qualifications**
- Possesses a Degree or Diploma in Engineering from a local or internationally recognised university or polytechnic.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience within Aviation or similar manufacturing production industry in the same capacity/role.
- Good knowledge/familiarity in Lean Concepts.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Team player
- Ability to work independently and lead a team of 30-40 skilled workers.

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:No