Job Description Summary
Unison is the leading provider of differentiated engine controls accessories and performance monitoring solutions in the Aerospace Defense & Space segments. Serving both original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket customers Unison designs manufactures and supplies the most advanced components and systems in the world.
As the Chief Manufacturing Engineering Leader for Unison P&L you will oversee and influence budgets and operational plans collaborating with crossfunctional teams to drive success. This role provides autonomy within the framework of established policies allowing you to make impactful decisions. We seek a professional with strong evaluative judgment and operational expertise to achieve outstanding results.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
- Attract and retain talent managing medium to large teams while developing expertise in your function.
- Develop roles that are experts in their discipline providing professional or thought leadership.
- Influence policy and ensure delivery within your area of responsibility linking with other parts of the organization.
- Interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products processes or services.
- Utilize understanding of industry trends to inform the decisionmaking process.
- Lead others to find creative solutions within complex manufacturing processes with technical variety and/or interdependent production cycles.
- Employ sophisticated operational/product management manufacturing or engineering techniques.
- Interact with adjacent functions to solve issues.
- Evaluate the quality of information received and question conflicting data for analysis.
- Use multiple internal and external resources outside of your function to help arrive at a decision.
- Lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements risk and/or complexity.
- Present business or technical discipline solutions to leaders.
- Communicate complex messages and negotiate mainly internally with others to adopt a different point of view.
- Influence peers to take action and negotiate with external partners vendors or customers.
- Travel up to 50% of the time.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 14 years of experience in engineering manufacturing engineering industrial engineering or operations).
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Industrial Engineering or Operations.
Desired Characteristics
- Models the GE Aerospace Behaviors (Humility Transparency Focus): this is missioncritical for all GE leaders as an enabler for continuous improvement.
- Results orientation must deliver sustainable results.
- Ability to accurately assess key business metrics and situations from a senior leader perspective and leverage lean to drive improvement.
- Collaborative team orientation knows when to lead and when to follow. Customer focused and demonstrates a high sense of urgency.
- Impactful communicator from the shop floor to the Boardroom.
- Problem solver analyticalminded challenges existing processes critical thinker.
- Deep expertise in manufacturing engineering disciplines design engineering new product introduction and working cross functionally with commercial operations and engineering teams
- Knowledge of tollgate and manufacturing/technology readiness processes
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
- Ability to document plan market and execute programs. Established project management skills.
This role requires access to U.S. exportcontrolled information. Therefore for applicants who are not asylees refugees lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e. not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) otherwise known as a U.S. Person) final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. exportcontrolled information from the U.S. Government.
Additional Information
GE Aerospace 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).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Required Experience:
Chief