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GE Gas Power
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Access to affordable, reliable, flexible, and sustainable power is fundamental to modern life. As the world is shifting towards a lower carbon future, GE Gas Power is ready to be your partner in leveraging the role of natural gas for powering the world today and tomorrow. GE’s foundations were laid by Thomas Edison nearly 130 years ago to provide innovative solutions for a wide range of critical problems around the world. GE’s deep-rooted culture serves as the backbone for every step we’ve taken at GE Gas Power. With more than 300,000 employees and operations in over 170 countries, GE employees reflect both the local communities we serve and the people with whom we do business.

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We believe diversity makes us more competitive and creates value for our customers, shareholders, and employees. We believe in the value of each person’s unique identity, background, and experiences and are committed to fostering an inclusive culture, where everyone feels empowered to do their best work because they feel accepted, respected, and that they belong. By embracing diverse teams and perspectives, we are better equipped to build a world that works.

Our approach to diversity will be based on the following objectives:

• Our employees – to continue to strive to ensure that our workforce is as diverse as the communities we serve, while always upholding the importance of merit.
• Our workplace – to foster an inclusive culture that recognizes employees’ unique needs, helps them reach their full potential, and nurtures their diverse talents.
• Our community – to strive for diversity in suppliers and partners and engage with the communities in which we operate to support diversity.

The Early Career Training is a 6 months program and it is an investment in young talents where GE trains fresh graduates who meet the required criteria to perform their traineeship in a GE business. The traineeship duration varies upon business requirement and will develop the general skills of the trainee and provide on the job knowledge and technical experience. Positions requiring understanding of a concepts, methods and procedures.

Job Description

Role Summary/Purpose

As the partner to the Plant manager, the site IT specialist is responsible for ensuring that DT and Factory priorities are aligned, and for partnering with site leadership to determine where can DT further enhance operations with technology that align with the priorities of the site. The site IT specialist will be responsible for staying informed of the latest industry trends and leading practices; promoting these internally to stretch and challenge current thinking / approaches

Essential Responsibilities

• Owns wing-to-wing execution of technical projects to deliver high quality outcomes to internal and external customers. Partners with functional product owner to define features backlog and requirements, works with technical team internal and external to the initiative to ensure outcomes delivery on time, within scope and budget and of desired quality. Makes sure project management practices are followed and improved as needed. Manages expectations and timelines to keep customers informed, working across teams in a regularly way.
• Work cross-functionally to manage factory priorities, issues and translating the demand, through Lean / Kanban principles, to features and functions that need to be delivered across the IT matrix and IT platforms to improve factory performance. Including, but not limited to IT/OT infrastructure, shop floor support, operations technology, MES, ERP, quality tools, and materials/warehouse mgmt.
• Ensures business critical information is cascaded to the team in a timely manner.
• Participate in Lean Action workouts to ensure that physical changes to material flow is represented in the supporting systems and that new capabilities are developed in concert with the Lean transformation.
• Act as a first line internal customer to ensure that global and local priorities are considered when ‘catching’ products/programs/projects delivered or led by external IT teams
• As a partner to Application owners, vendors, and AppOps leaders, ensure that the tools that ‘run’ the manufacturing plant are effectively supported, including but not limited to:

• Daily trouble-shooting of critical issues
• Collaborate with the regional deployment leader to drive the provisioning and operationalization of hardware, IT/OT changes, new 3rd party software.

Qualifications / Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• Fresh graduate up to a maximum of 2 years of experience
• Strong proficiency with MS Office suite of products such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Active listener with good communication skills in English
• Strong team player with ability to communicate effectively across functional teams – collaborates well with others to solve problems and actively incorporates input from various sources
• Demonstrated customer focus – evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer, builds strong customer relationships, creates processes with customer viewpoint and partners with customers to help shape their future initiatives

Desired Characteristics

• Basic knowledge of networking technologies and topologies as well as information security
• Able to bridge and converge Information Technology with Operations Technology
• Demonstrated leadership potential and hunger to share knowledge to coach and mentor others
• Demonstrated mindset of curiosity and continuous learning
• Experience working with others on a global basis
• Strong analytical and strong problem solving skills -communicates in a clear and succinct manner and effectively evaluates information / data to make decisions, anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve, creates actionable strategies and operational plans
• Change oriented – actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives, confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly
• Possess a passion for supply chain and manufacturing that demonstrably makes tangible improvements in operations technology and software to drive automation of manufacturing methods

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