Operational Excellence and Projects Lead
Employer · GE Vernova
Production manager
Strategy manager
Production engineerFull-timeMealsVeresegyház
The Operations Leader works directly with the Plant Leader to drive operational excellence, standard work, and execution across Veresegyház plant. This role serves as a key partner to the Plant Leader in translating business strategy into clear operating priorities, establishing consistent management systems, and driving accountability across the organization.
Tasks
- Partner directly with the Plant Leader to establish and execute plant priorities, operating rhythms, and leadership standard work.
- Drive consistency and discipline in the plant operating system, including daily management, visual management, tiered accountability, escalation, and performance reviews.
- Work across functional and operational teams to ensure priorities are understood, actions are clearly owned, and commitments are executed.
- Establish and sustain leader standard work across the plant, helping leaders focus their time on the activities that drive safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance.
- Identify gaps in operating performance and drive structured problem solving and follow-through across the organization.
- Support the Plant Leader in preparing and executing key business reviews, operating reviews, and leadership meetings.
- Partner with Lean, Quality, EHS, Materials, Engineering, and Operations leaders to drive common operating standards and continuous improvement.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives and special projects identified by the Plant Leader, with responsibility for developing the strategy, engaging stakeholders, and delivering measurable results.
- Support plant-wide transformation efforts including Lean, 5S, quality improvement, productivity, capacity, automation, digital manufacturing, and organizational capability.
- Serve as a trusted thought partner to the Plant Leader, bringing data, insights, and recommendations to complex business decisions.
- Build relationships across the site and broader Gas Power organization and represent the plant in cross-functional and cross-site forums.
- Develop a broad understanding of the Gas Power business, products, customers, value streams, and functional organizations.
- Help connect strategy to execution by ensuring plant priorities translate into clear actions and sustained results at the shop-floor level.
Conditions & benefits
Multi-element benefits packageCompany car, annual bonus, cafeteria, health insuranceWorking conditionsExcellent working conditions in our modern factoryEquipmentCompany laptop and phone for workRestaurantRestaurant offering quality meals (healthy and affordable menu options)Recreation and wellnessBook lending, own gym, and outdoor sports fields for relaxation after workCommunityGE Volunteer Groups: teams aimed at improving our environment through community collaboration
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or another technical discipline.
- Significant manufacturing leadership experience.
- Major manufacturing and/or operations experience.
- Fluent Hungarian and English language skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and cross-functional collaboration, including environments where not all resources report directly to you.
- Experience establishing operating systems, standard work, performance management, and structured problem solving.
- Demonstrated success leading complex business initiatives and driving measurable results.