At GE Appliances, a Haier company, we believe great manufacturing starts with great leadership. As a Manager, Manufacturing Operations, you'll play a critical role in leading daily production, developing teams, and driving operational excellence within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
This is an opportunity for a hands-on leader who thrives on solving problems, improving processes, and creating a culture where safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance are achieved through teamwork and accountability.
PositionManager, Manufacturing Operations - Door Line
LocationUSA, Louisville, KY
How You'll Create PossibilitiesManufacturing Operations:- Supports the Business Leader by overseeing daily operations and driving continuous improvement across an assigned production area.
- Directly manages hourly production team members, including Team Leaders.
- Owns operational performance for safety, quality, delivery and cost. Aligns area goals with plant-wide objectives.
- Leads daily start-up of production area. Ensure proper staffing, adjusts for absenteeism and reviews daily production plans with Team Leaders.
- Ensures production line boards are completed accurately and used for performance tracking, issue identification and shift-to-shift communication.
- Maintains strong technical understanding of operations and follows escalation protocols to address abnormalities and corrective actions.
- Acts as first responder for production issues, facilitating proper escalation and resolution.
- Enforces Lean Manufacturing principles and escalation processes under the Appliance Production System.
- Participates in daily production meetings, communicating key issues to leadership and cascades necessary information to Team Leaders.
- Oversees implementation of standardized work and coaches Team Leaders to ensure process stability and adherence.
- Ensures Job Instruction methods and cross-training matrices are followed to maintain skill depth and consistency.
- Maintains 5S standards to ensure a safe, organized and efficient work environment.
Continuous Improvement:- Leads teams in aggressive response to inefficiencies. Drives root cause analysis and sustainable countermeasures.
- Supports the Business Leader in managing cross-functional teams (PIEs, Team Leaders, KPOs and other lean resources) to identify and reduce waste.
- Serves as first responder within the escalation process to resolve operational issues.
- Participates in department reviews, helps prioritize open items and ensures timely closure with accountability.
- Leads and champions Kaizen Events; ensure countermeasures are implemented effectively.
- Uses tools such as Yamazumi charts to plan and execute work area rebalancing.
Leadership & Administration:- Partners with HR to ensure fair, consistent and timely administration of all employee relations matters.
- Manages staffing levels, job postings, timecards and pay accuracy.
- Oversees overtime needs, compliance with overtime guidelines and posting of overtime schedules.
- Issues timely, well-documented discipline and supports HR in completing prompt, thorough investigations when needed.
- Communicates company updates, process changes and other written communications promptly and clearly.
Quality:- Enforces all quality standards and processes.
- Monitors daily quality performance leads to problem-solving and escalates unresolved issues.
- Ensures Team Leaders embed quality standards into Standardized Work.
- Partners cross-functionally with engineering and quality teams to resolve and prevent issues.
- Tracks and reduces scrap through analysis and preventive action.
- Drives improvement in First Pass Yield and Service Call Rate (SCR) through proactive problem-solving and collaboration.
Safety:- Promotes a proactive safety culture and ensures compliance with all PPE, safety rules and procedures.
- Leads and owns accident investigations within 24 hours, identifies root causes and implements corrective actions.
- Maintains the department safety action list and ensures timely closure of corrective actions from incidents and ergonomic assessments.
- Drives accountability for safe behaviors through daily engagement and visible leadership presence on the floor.
What You'll Bring to Our TeamRequirements:- 5+ years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment, including supplier management and project implementation, with demonstrated technical acumen across supply chain functions such as manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, materials, quality, procurement, and fulfillment and/or be a GE Appliances Supply Chain Development Program or GearUp graduate.
Preferred:- BS/BA degree preferred, ideally in engineering, supply chain management or business.
- Six Sigma certification preferred, with strong knowledge of Lean, DMAIC, workout and other change mechanisms.
- Demonstrated accomplishments showing results-driven methodology, analytical methods, schedule achievement, teamwork.
- Prior Lean Manufacturing implementation experience.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to influence and engage others effectively.
Working Environment:- You will work in both an office and manufacturing environment.
