AEOE Legacy Configurations Engineering Manager

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead business initiatives regarding design, test and manufacturing technology, quality, and productivity.
• Identify and promote the development of improved processes related to design, analysis, manufacturing, quality, and productivity.
• Establish and monitor programs, plans and budgets to assure business needs are covered as well as customer satisfaction.
• Ensure employees receive the training and guidance needed to increase their responsibilities and technical contributions.
• Establish and communicate the work-group goals that meet the needs of the business.
• Provide leadership and administrative management and define roles and responsibilities of assigned personnel.
• Conduct performance appraisals and participate in salary planning.
• Promote professional growth through timely performance feedback, coaching and counseling.
• Represent and promote department compliance activities.
• Maintain ample awareness of technical efforts within the work group to assure technical excellence, timely completion of work and reviews, appropriate use of resources and consistency of methods across programs.
• Assure communication of technical and business information between organizations and within the work group.
• Communicate technical, organizational, resource, and personnel issues to higher management.
• Ensure procedures are established and adhered to, maintaining high-quality engineering that conform to Engineering Standards, Design Practices, and applicable Operating Procedures.
• Implement engineering standards and specifications consistent with GE needs, policies, and practices.
• Provide leadership in furthering digitization process and programs.
• Provide an effective and efficient service for all assigned organizations.

Required Qualifications

• Aeronautical, mechanical, or related engineering/design bachelor’s degree.
• Experience on GE Aerospace aeroderivative engines externals configurations design (incl. Marine Module).
• Solid knowledge and proven technical experience of diverse GE Aerospace aeroderivative engines product lines (e.g., LM2500, LM6000 or LM2500 Marine)
• Proven solid technical contributions as it applies to scope of the team (MRB certification on externals configurations or marine module hardware is a plus).
• Experience on NPI, manufacturing and field support projects of GE Aerospace aeroderivative engines externals configurations hardware (incl. Marine Module).
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes as they apply to scope of the team.
• Solid knowledge of GE Aerospace Engineering processes and standards.
• Prior experience as externals configurations engineering focal point for a GE Aerospace aeroderivative program.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Experience coordinating relevant projects with greater autonomy/ownership.
• Experience managing conflict and labor challenges.
• Experience managing competing priorities and multiple projects at the same time with effectiveness.
• Experience mentoring and developing others.
• Strategic thinking skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree in mechanical design.
• Experience managing contractors.
• Experience auditing manufacturing processes as they apply to hardware and scope of the team.
• Experience interacting with GE Aerospace aeroderivative engines customers.

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