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About GE Aerospace
GE Aerospace (General Electric Aerospace) designs and produces commercial and military jet engines, components, and integrated systems for aircraft manufacturers and airlines worldwide. Industry: Aerospace & Aviation Engines
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JOB TITLE: Director - Digital Operations, Manufacturing Execution
The Director - Digital Operations, Manufacturing Execution leads the digital operations function for the Manufacturing Execution ecosystem. This leader provides cross-functional leadership across support, product, and architecture teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and well-governed operations for critical manufacturing applications. Key responsibilities include platform stewardship, service continuity, and steady-state ownership of the PlantApps, PFMD, and Bluestreak platforms. The role involves establishing support models, managing service governance, and driving uptime, operational stability, and issue resolution. The successful candidate will utilize expertise in Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), service management, incident management, and release readiness. This position solves the complex business problem of maintaining high-performance, business-critical digital manufacturing platforms while ensuring operational readiness for migrations, upgrades, and platform transitions within a large-scale enterprise manufacturing environment.
Lead the digital operations function for Manufacturing Execution, ensuring platform stewardship and service continuity.
Provide steady-state ownership for a portfolio of manufacturing digital platforms including PlantApps, PFMD, and Bluestreak.
Manage the support model, operating model, and service governance required to sustain MES-related platforms.
Drive uptime, operational stability, support responsiveness, and issue resolution across the manufacturing ecosystem.
Govern service delivery through clear KPIs, operating cadences, escalation paths, and performance reporting.
Lead root cause analysis and continuous improvement efforts to reduce repeat issues and strengthen reliability.
Ensure operational readiness and service continuity for releases, upgrades, migrations, and platform transitions.
Drive adherence to compliance, controls, and cybersecurity requirements while simplifying operational processes.
What we're looking for
Must have legal authorization to work in the U.S. or UK.
Must obtain and maintain Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance.
Must have a Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience, an Associate’s degree with 11 years, or a High School Diploma with 13 years.
Must have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in Digital Operations.
Strong experience leading digital operations, service delivery, or platform operations in a complex enterprise environment (preferred).
Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or other business-critical digital platforms (preferred).
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams across support, product, architecture, and engineering in a matrixed global organization (preferred).
Authorized to work in the United States for this opening.
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