Senior Advanced Quality Engineer- Turbine Airfoils

Job Description Summary

This role is for the Turbine Airfoils Advanced Quality Engineer (AQE) within the Product Safety & Quality organization. The Advanced Quality Engineer is an accomplished and forward-thinking individual contributor on a team that will serve as the strategic arm of our Turbine Airfoil Quality organization. Reporting directly to the Part Family Advanced Quality Leader, this role is pivotal in driving proactive transformations, leading strategic initiatives that enhance quality processes and outcomes, implementing policy enhancements to address systemic issues, and fostering a culture of operational and problem-solving excellence.

The successful candidate will support across the part family to perform Root Cause and corrective actions, read-across activities, standardization, and implement permanent tactical and systemic corrective actions across the part family. This team will also be pivotal in supporting and equipping the broader Turbine Airfoils Quality team with the skills and methodologies needed to achieve superior execution, redesigning processes to align with organizational objectives and continuous improvement principles to create a culture of team-based problem-solving and standardization within the manufacturing shops & suppliers and across the value stream.

Travel in this role is likely to be 10-50% depending on part family performance and needs. Travel will be primarily to the Turbine Airfoil sites in Eastern United States.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Individual contributor with expertise in Quality and / or Turbine Airfoils, with ability to mentor and influence with indirect leadership skills.
• Requires an individual contributor with indirect leadership skills and ability to develop talent. Utilizes in-depth knowledge of Turbine Airfoils design & Quality, and analytical thinking to execute policy / strategy.
• Helps to define and leads the implementation of the quality organization, process and tools to support strategy. It implements a culture of Quality in the organization and defines and leads improvement initiatives to achieve business excellence.
• Assist directly in developing expertise within Quality and Turbine Airfoils manufacturing team. Pivotal to the cultural and technical transformation of the TAVS quality team.
• Grow the reputation of the organization. Creates and Influences policy and ensures delivery within own function, linking with other functions of the organization.
• Communicates complex messages and negotiates internally and externally with others. Influences peers to take action and may negotiate with external partners, vendors, or customers.
• Has significant influence on part family Quality.
• Leads and supports diverse cross-functional teams to find creative solutions to address complex problems that may impact the organization. Has the ability to evaluate quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis. Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.

Required Qualifications

Desired Characteristics

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing.

GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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