Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the site expert on vacuum furnace operation maintenance and repair defining and controlling process conditions tooling and equipment settings to ensure safe reliable performance
• Lead troubleshooting and repair of vacuum furnaces using advanced diagnostics root cause analysis and TPM principles to reduce unplanned downtime and chronic equipment-related losses
• Partner closely with maintenance and machine repair teams to plan and execute preventive and predictive maintenance develop PM routines and optimize spare parts strategies for critical furnace assets
• Collaborate with engineers team coaches and business leaders to align furnace capability with production requirements SQDC targets and value stream plans escalating risks and proposing data-driven solutions
• Coach operators and frontline teams on autonomous maintenance equipment care abnormal condition recognition and standard work adherence to build ownership and improve equipment reliability
• Use structured problem solving and waste identification (DOWNTIME) to eliminate equipment-related causes of defects waiting and extra processing in the heat treat value stream
• Provide clear credible communication across levels of the organization from shop-floor maintenance and operators to engineering value stream leaders and senior leadership ensuring shared understanding of equipment status risks and improvement actions

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university (or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 4 years of hands-on vacuum furnace maintenance and repair experience)
• At least an additional 3 years of hands-on vacuum furnace maintenance and repair experience

Desired Characteristics:

• Extensive hands-on experience in the operation maintenance and repair of industrial vacuum furnaces in a manufacturing environment
• Demonstrated expertise in troubleshooting furnace issues interpreting furnace charts/data and restoring equipment to stable capable operation
• Strong understanding of heat treat processes metallurgy basics and the relationship between furnace performance product quality and safety
• Experience/expertise in vacuum furnace operation maintenance and repair including advanced diagnostics refurbishment and rebuild techniques
• Strong total productive maintenance (TPM) mindset with a track record of building operator ownership preventive/predictive maintenance routines and early equipment management practices
• Experience/ability to train coach and influence both operators and maintenance personnel fostering shared accountability for equipment care and reliability
• Experience/ability to work effectively across a wide range of stakeholders including maintenance/machine repair engineers team coaches business leaders and site leadership
• Commitment to safety and disciplined execution of maintenance procedures lockout/tagout and other critical safeguards
• Experience/skill in structured problem solving and waste identification (DOWNTIME) using data to eliminate chronic equipment-related defects waiting and extra processing in the value stream
• Comfortable working door-to-door across the process from Genba on the shop floor to discussions with engineers team coaches business leaders and site leadership with strong interpersonal and influencing skills
• Humble: respectful receptive agile eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information speaks with candor contributes constructively
• Focused: quick learner strategically prioritizes work committed
• Leadership ability: strong communicator decision-maker collaborative
• Problem solver: analytical-minded challenges existing processes critical thinker

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 employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident U.S. Citizen have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e. a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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