US Senior & Time Manager

Job Description Summary

GE Aerospace’s US Pay & Time Center of Excellence (COE) delivers accurate, timely payroll and time & attendance services for exempt and non-exempt employees, with a strong focus on complex, high-volume manufacturing environments. The team aligns payroll and timekeeping processes with business goals, using standard work and governance to ensure high-quality preparation, processing, and documentation of pay.

The US Senior Pay & Time Manager leads a team of payroll and time & attendance specialists supporting employees across multiple US manufacturing sites, operational locations, and business units. This role sets direction and drives strategic initiatives to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant payroll and timekeeping, enabling employees to focus on delivering excellence in safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC). As a key partner to plant and site leaders, HR, and senior stakeholders, this role uses Flight Deck to drive process improvements, standardization, simplification, and operational efficiency, leveraging internal and external best practices to enhance payroll and timekeeping systems.

This role partners closely with HR Managers, Business Leaders, Digital Technology, and other People Operations teams to improve processes, enhance system functionality, and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. You will influence strategy and priorities across sites and programs, with particular focus on hourly, shift-based manufacturing populations. You will lead the compliance, productivity, and efficiency of payroll and time & attendance service delivery;

drive continuous improvement; build leadership capability to sustain results; and serve as a peer mentor to other team leaders in the NAM organization.

• Ensure pay is processed on time, accurately, and in compliance with government regulations, company policies, and, where applicable, collective bargaining agreements for hourly manufacturing and other employee populations.
• Lead day-to-day time & attendance operations for multi-shift, hourly manufacturing and operations teams, including accurate recording of hours worked, overtime, shift differentials, premiums, and leave.
• Lead a high-performing team of payroll and time & attendance specialists; build technical proficiency in Workday Payroll and timekeeping systems; provide ongoing training and development.
• Partner with site and plant leaders, vendors, HR Partners, Total Rewards, Union Relations/Employee Relations, and People Ops teams on compliant, sustainable pay and time practices; resolve complex escalations and risk.
• Manage the partnership with Digital Technology and time & attendance application implementation and support; shape the system roadmap and strategy; guide and collaborate on system enhancements and maintenance with a focus on manufacturing and continuous operations.
• Drive process improvements and strategic initiatives that simplify and standardize timekeeping and payroll processes across manufacturing sites and business units.
• Resolve complex escalations, explaining payroll and timekeeping concepts clearly to executives, HR, and production employees on the shop floor.
• Implement and sustain standard work for pay & time processes and procedures, including standardized site-level timekeeping practices and controls.
• Build strong cross-functional and executive relationships; align objectives and resources across functions; identify risks and drive mitigation plans, especially those impacting hourly operations and production continuity.
• Analyze payroll and time & attendance data (e.g., timecard errors, missed punches, overtime trends, attendance patterns); lead root cause analysis; translate insights into action plans with measurable outcomes.
• Manage over/underpayment processes and partner with HR and Union Relations/Employee Relations to ensure appropriate actions, communication, and remediation.
• Identify pain points in manufacturing and operations timekeeping processes and design sustainable solutions that support continuous improvement.
• Provide payroll and time & attendance expertise during M&A and other…