Executive Site Leader

Job Description Summary

The Executive Site Leader sets the vision, strategy, and operational direction for the Electric Avenue (EA) manufacturing site. As the senior leader of the facility, this role holds end-to-end accountability for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People, and Innovation, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, customer commitments, regulatory requirements, and business objectives. The leader serves as the primary steward of the site's performance, culture, competitiveness, and long-term sustainability. Working across Planning, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, Human Resources, and Global Operations, the Executive Site Leader translates business strategy into clear priorities and measurable results. This transformational leader combines strategic vision with operational discipline to build organizational capability, inspire teams, accelerate change, and deliver sustainable performance for customers, employees, and GE HealthCare.

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of site operations, delivering world-class performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People, and Innovation.
• Develop and execute the site's strategic vision, operating plans, and business objectives, balancing customer, employee, operational, and financial priorities.
• Drive Heartbeat transformation, operational excellence, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build a high-performing, inclusive organization through strong talent development, engagement, and succession planning.
• Ensure short- and long-term capacity, product quality, delivery, customer satisfaction, and financial targets are achieved while meeting customer and regulatory requirements.
• Champion a culture of quality and compliance by ensuring adherence to the GE HealthCare Quality Manual, Quality Management System, Quality Management Policy, Quality Goals, applicable regulatory requirements, production controls, and training expectations, with timely escalation and corrective action to protect product conformity and customer outcomes.
• Ensure the organization has the technical, functional, and manufacturing process capabilities required to deliver product quality, customer satisfaction, and sustained compliance with established production standards and work instructions.
• Partner with manufacturing operations and functional teams globally to align site priorities with enterprise objectives, customer commitments, and growth strategies.
• Establish robust governance, operating mechanisms, and performance management systems to ensure execution discipline.
• Serve as the primary operations owner for the product portfolio across direct and indirect functions, representing the site internally and externally, influencing stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership, and advancing GE HealthCare's culture, values, and business goals.
• Own the site operating plan, financial performance, productivity agenda, and capital investment strategy, ensuring resources are deployed against the highest-value business and customer priorities.
• Establish and sustain a culture of environmental, health, safety, and security excellence, with clear accountability for risk identification, regulatory compliance, and incident prevention.
• Ensure site resilience through robust business continuity, crisis management, supply continuity, and operational risk mitigation strategies.
• Represent the site with customers, regulatory bodies, government and community stakeholders, and enterprise leaders, protecting GE HealthCare's reputation and advancing strategic priorities.
• Shape the site's long-term manufacturing and technology strategy, including footprint, automation, capability, and capital decisions that strengthen competitiveness and support growth.

Key Competencies

Leadership Strong communication skills with executive presence. Ability to make timely decisions in complex and ambiguous situations. Proven ability to build and sustain high-performing organizations. Ability to energize teams and drive accountability at all organizational levels.

Operational Excellence & Execution Drives world-class performance through Lean, Six Sigma, and disciplined operating systems. Delivers sustainable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, and cost. Drives productivity, profitability, and long-term growth.

Transformation & Innovation Champions digital transformation, AI and automation. Creates an environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement. Proven ability to lead change effectively across all levels of the organization and drive business transformation.

Talent & Culture Development Strong people leadership and talent development capabilities. Strong coaching and mentoring skills with demonstrated capability developing succession pipelines. Creates an inclusive, engaged, and accountable culture.

Cross-Functional Leadership Builds strong partnerships across business functions and global operations. Influences stakeholders to achieve enterprise objectives. Aligns teams around customer and business priorities. Demonstrated ability to influence across a matrixed organization.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Education Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Business, or related discipline required.
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Experience Minimum 15 years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing, operations, supply chain, or industrial environments.
• Proven experience leading complex manufacturing organizations and delivering significant operational performance improvements.
• Demonstrated success implementing Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Experience leading organizational transformation, automation, and digital manufacturing initiatives.
• Proven financial and business acumen, including ownership of operating plans, productivity initiatives, and capital investment decisions.
• Experience operating within a regulated manufacturing environment preferred.
• We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation.

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

At GE HealthCare, we see possibilities through innovation. We’re partnering with our customers to fulfill healthcare’s greatest potential through groundbreaking medical technology, intelligent devices, and care solutions. Better tools enabling better patient care. Together, we are not only building a healthier future but living our purpose to create a world where healthcare has no limits.