Lead Production Engineer

General Electric

Essential Responsibilities

You will:

• Provide manufacturing / technical assistance and leadership to assigned work group
• A job at this level requires good interpersonal skills and may be required to lead a team (manage production employees and production schedule requirements to include timekeeping, overtime, time off and discipline)
• Support and meet production schedules, drive productivity and quality initiatives, and manage the area within budget guidelines and controls
• Utilize data analysis to improve safety, decrease quality defects, and increase productivity
• Communicate and enforce handbook and other plant policies
• Interface with internal and external customers, define priorities for shift and work group leveraging production meetings (and shift change meetings, as needed)
• Actively participate in 5S, Environment, Health and Safety initiatives and corrective actions
• Actively participate on cross-functional teams and demonstrate necessary leadership and coaching skills to other team members
• Help train and develop skills of production employees; educate production employees on business strategy and metrics

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering& Production Engineering
• Min 7-8 years experience in Transformers Manufacturing Processes
• At least 5 years of coaching/supervisory/leadership experience
• Fluent English and Turkish (written & verbal)
• Energetic/high level of sense of urgency/decisive

Desired Characteristics

• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively?
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed ?
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative?
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker
• Ability to work effectively with  teams and serve as a positive change agent
• Lean / Six Sigma training