Job Description Summary

This position is for the Turbine Airfoils Sourced Casting Quality Leader within the Product Safety & Quality organization reporting directly to the Turbine Airfoils Casting Quality Leader. The role is responsible for ensuring the quality of manufacturing processes product and technologies employed by external casting vendors. As a frontline leader this position owns and influences quality action planning budgets operating strategies and industry initiatives across the GE Aerospace sourced portfolio of turbine airfoil castings.

Guided by established operating policies this role requires collaboration with and leadership of cross-functional teams including Casting Technologies Design Engineering Quality and Operations. This position has the high potential to significantly impact the Turbine Airfoils Part Family and greater Product line P&Ls. Achieving success in this role demands high levels of evaluative judgment and operational expertise.

Key responsibilities include leadership of SQDC (Safety Quality Delivery and Cost) for external casting suppliers and processes as well as driving advancements in Advanced Quality Supplier Development Quality Improvements and Technology Breakthroughs.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Influences/Defines and leads the implementation of the quality organization process and tools to support a strategy for the Aerospace Airfoil Casting Industry. It implements a culture of Quality in the organization and defines and leads improvement initiatives to achieve business excellence.
• Manages a small to medium team of lead and senior professionals. Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise within Quality and/or Investment Castings.
• Requires strong commercial awareness of the industry and is expected to influence the development of strategy within own area including control of resources and influences policy formulation.
• Will lead functional teams driving projects wit moderate resource requirements risk and/or complexity.
• Communicates difficult concepts and may influence others options on business critical initiatives and product offerings.
• Impacts the teams ability to achieve service quality and timeliness of objectives. Work is subject to functional policy objectives. Regularly advises management in the function and/or in the business. Has a supportive role in decision making about important subjects. High levels of evaluative judgment are required to achieve outcomes required.
• Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems that impact the business and industry.
• Has ability to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders. Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations. Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
• Ability to lead through influence with external suppliers to meet quality requirements and business goals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 4 years of experience in Casting Quality).
• Additional 5 years experience in Quality Castings Manufacturing or Engineering
• US Person. Refer to Internal Revenue Code section 7701(a)(31) for the definition

Desired Characteristics

• Casting Expertise and/or Airfoil Mechanical Design Expertise
• Focused quick learner strategically prioritizes work accountable
• Strong communicator decision-maker collaborative
• People Leadership and Career Growth Pipeline
• Established project management skills.
• Humble respectful receptive agile eager to learn
• Transparent. Freely shares critical information in a timely fashion to the right people speaks with candor contributes constructively to the team and industry
• Problem solver who is analytical-minded challenges existing processes and is a critical thinker
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document plan market and execute programs. Established project management skills

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and along with programs like HealthAhead your physical emotional financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program which provides 24/7 confidential assessment counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance adoption assistance paid parental leave disability insurance life insurance and paid time-off for vacation or illness.

GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e. is a Sponsor). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate amend suspend replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsors welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled 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. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Additional Information

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position