Weekend Global Transportation Operations Specialist

Job Description Summary

As a member of the Global Transportation team, you’ll work on an international team that contributes to GE Aerospace’s transportation & logistics excellence. You will develop a deep understanding of the business’ logistical needs and the impact of our operations and resolve some of our biggest transportation challenges.

You’ll execute our transportation processes to ensure our supply chain’s logistics operate smoothly and use a data driven, analytical approach to resolve issues and improve our performance.

This role will work a non-standard work schedule, your typical work week will be Friday through Monday to ensure our logistics operations and our ability to delivery material to clear our engines to build continues to flow through the weekend.

This role is open to remote consideration in EST and CST.

• Execute the Clear to Build Process and Standard Work to transport, track and ensure parts are delivered to meet our future weekly engine output goals.
• Surface emerging international and domestic delivery issues and act as the transportation escalation point during the weekend to pull in the right stakeholder to resolve delivery issues.
• Lead cross-functional projects to ensure optimal internal process for supply chain fulfilment. Develop relationships to gain knowledge of business plans requiring logistics strategy, tactical and transactional refinement to meet demands.
• Embrace and utilize supplier metrics to develop and implement process improvements aimed at reducing the shipment processing cycle time, enhancing quality, productivity, and service capability. In addition, global transportation finances, price inflation and deflation, premium transportation utilization, and on-time delivery performance.
• Enable operations team by preparing both operational and financial performance data, through embracement of global transportation digital tools.
• Contribute to GE Aerospace’s transportation quality program to include identifying transportation supplier process & performance gaps and managing long term process improvements with suppliers. Develop and maintain relationships with supplier operations personnel to assist with defect resolution, corrective & preventative action implementation.
• Plan and implement changes in operating practices that contribute to the overall reduction in operating expenses while providing satisfactory services the customers.
• In collaboration with GTO Operations, identify cost savings projects and effectively manage to completion and realized savings.
• Champion regulatory, policy and procedure compliance as well and EHS standards.

• Bachelor of Science (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 4 years of logistics experience) + 3 years of logistics experience

• Experience of both international and US domestic logistics operational experience.
• Understanding of global customs requirements.
• Root cause analysis, corrective & preventative action process expertise.
• Advanced MS Excel.
• Possess a strong customer centric service approach, while balancing policy, procedures, and transportation objectives & goals.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain schedules and meet deliverables in a fast paced highly dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge and expertise managing in a metrics-based environment to include data compilation and analysis, and effectively managing performance gaps.
• Possess excellent organizational skills to effectively manage multiple priorities concurrently.
• Operational background an advantage.
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn.
• 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.

The salary range for this position is $89,. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a…