Job Description Summary

An AEO Repair Engineering team is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of repairs for the overall Aeroderivative engine fleet including the LM500, LM5000, LM6000, LM2500, LMS100 and LM1600 products. The team is instrumental in supporting our Aerospace repair shops and our Customers repair shops meet financial targets and enhancing their repair capability to service the end users of our Aeroderivative products. The Lead Repair Engineer is an individual contributor who will work to make decisions, apply concepts and resolve issues on assigned projects guided by established business policies, procedures, standards and best practices. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring moderate levels of operational judgment.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Development of repair and inspection technologies to meet short term and long-term business needs
• Ability to work across functions in the development, implementation, and final industrialization of a repair to support our shops and customer shops.
• Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services as it pertains to repair.
• Provide technical leadership to personnel supporting assigned projects to find creative solutions to complex problems with technical variety and/or interdependent processes.  This will include being a resource for less experienced colleagues.
• Leverage prior experience and knowledge and broaden knowledge of one’s own technical discipline to meet product deliverables. This may require use of multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
• Prepare and present technical data to internal and external customers, including leadership.
• Share engineering information and promote open dialogue. This includes timely communications on significant issues or developments
• Assure proper documentation of technical data generated for the assigned projects and/or tasks is consistent with engineering policies and procedures
• Developing specialized knowledge in their discipline. Serves as best practice/quality resource. Has awareness of latest technical developments in own area. Contributes towards strategy and policy development, and ensure delivery within area of responsibility.
• Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering. Takes new perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with moderate risks and resource requirements. Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of 3 years of additional experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Repair
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.  We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Desired Characteristics

• 6 years of additional experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Repair
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems
• Early adopter of change, adjusting to find faster, simpler approaches that are impactful
• Strong project management skills
• Strong prioritization and organizational skills
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.
• Prior repair, manufacturing and/or design engineering experience

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.

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