Job Description Summary

Job Description

Working at our Grand Rapids Facility

For more than 15 years our manufacturing facilities in Grand Rapids have helped fuel the growth and success of GE Aerospace. We’re producing high quality electronics and avionics parts and equipment to exacting standards. Including Avionics Computing Systems, Mission System, Navigation and Guidance and Vehicle Health & Data Management products. We’re the career home for union and non-union employees who seek purpose and challenge in their careers. People just like you.

Role Overview

The Avionics Manufacturing Consulting Engineer leads projects and initiatives with broad scope and high impact to the business and is a recognized expert in manufacturing of electronic and electromechanical products. In this role you will be responsible for complex assignments with long-term business implications, manage complex issues within functional area(s) of expertise, and contribute to the overall business strategy. See CEO-PRO-110, Aviation Systems Controlled Title Holder Process, for additional detail.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Serve as a recognized technical expert in manufacturing/process engineering, producibility (Design For Manufacturing) factors, Avionics business processes, and provide guidance to program management, design, and supply chain organizations.
• Remain cognizant of the state-of-the-art in your area of expertise
• Provide technical leadership in design/producibility reviews, manufacturing reviews, task forces, industrial committees, problem solving efforts, and design boards as necessary
• Work closely with the Design Chief Consulting Engineer(s) in area of expertise to integrate design and manufacturing engineering processes and initiatives
• Provide technical consultation to assigned organization and to other internal and supplier engineering and manufacturing organizations
• Identify and recommend where improvements in knowledge of the specific discipline are needed or where technical training is needed, including key technology area strategy for manufacturing disciplines
• Establish a collaboration and documentation strategy to assure early involvement of manufacturing engineering on manufacturing process capability and producibility matters
• Provide leadership to help focus and integrate new technology smoothly into production
• Suggest areas where technology advancements are needed and recommend approaches / programs to pursue, including intellectual property strategy
• Lead / support teams to address top problems within the organization or projects in focused technical areas
• Consult with and support the Chief Manufacturing Engineer in the execution of goals and initiatives of the CME Team
• Collaborate with multi-year product and technology strategy teams to ensure the necessary manufacturing & process capabilities are in place to support those strategies

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 14 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience within the Aviation / Aerospace industry)
• Minimum of 10 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience within the Aviation / Aerospace industry

Preferred Qualifications

• Considered an expert in a specific manufacturing engineering discipline
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Ability to formulate strategy for technical manufacturing talent development and provide technical content for training packages
• Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization
• Proven ability to lead teams through problem solving and/or root cause investigations
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification

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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