Job Description SummaryAt Avio Aero, a GE Aerospace Business, we’ve been reimagining the power of flight for more than 100 years. We are specialized in the design, production and maintenance of components and systems for both the civil and military aviation. In the Commodity of Forging and Raw Mater

Lead Supplier Quality Engineer - Forging and Raw Material

GE Aerospace • 
Victorville, California, United States
Position Type: Permanent
Job Description:
Job Description SummaryAt Avio Aero, a GE Aerospace Business, we’ve been reimagining the power of flight for more than 100 years. We are specialized in the design, production and maintenance of components and systems for both the civil and military aviation.

In the Commodity of Forging and Raw Material the Lead Supplier Quality Engineer will ensure deliveries consistently meeting all customers’ quality and regulatory requirements and lead preventive enhancement initiatives to supplier manufacturing processes.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

  • Actively participate to sourcing and industrialization processes to achieve the target of zero Customer Defects

  • Lead with sourcing and product engineering preventive assessment of design to manufacturing

  • Ensure that quality is consistently flexible and able to react to changing demands

  • Provide engineering support to supplier manufacturing process ensuring consistent application of quality techniques to resolve quality issues of capability, tolerancing and materials by leading the implementation of action plans and providing resources

  • Lead supplier eligibility assessment, readiness review and surveillance audits

  • Lead APQP ensuring that PPAP are approved on-site when it is required

  • Handle daily shop issues related to supplied parts by identification & containment of non-compliances

  • Lead with all the related stakeholders all problem-solving events to contain internal scraps and supplier escapes, find root cause and corrective action, make the risk assessment and standardize through the Lesson Learnt/FMEA

  • Lead risk assessment (e.g. PFMEA, PQA, etc) to ensure the compliance to product/process/system quality requirements

  • Determine improvement parameters by identifying statistical methods relevant to sustain manufacturing processes to adhere to standard requirements and prevent occurrence of any non-conformity related to product, process or system

Qualification/Requirements

  • Masters degree in Engineering, preferably in Chemical/Materials Engineering or Chemistry/Material Science

  • Previous and proven experience in driving quality assurance and control in Industrial/Automotive industry/Steel Mill Manufacturer/Forging/Casting/Foundries or Heat Treatment and strong experience in Quality/Manufacturing roles

  • Strong knowledge in Material analysis techniques

  • Basic Knowledge of GD&T

  • Proven experience with main quality tools (i.e. PDCA, Ishikawa diagram/3x5 Why/Process Flow Diagram/Process Flow Chart, Production Control Plan/FMEA, APQP/PPAP, SPC/Run Charts, MSA)

  • Fluent Italian and English, both spoken and written

  • Willingness to travel at least 50 of the time

  • Work Visa in accordance with local regulation is required

Desired Characteristics

  • Motivation, focus on delivering quality

  • Strong analytic problem-solving mindset

  • Humble, transparent, open minded and teamwork

What we offer

Smart working and work life-balance

Avio Aero, when possible, promotes remote work and encourages a good, healthy and satisfying work-life balance. We value our employees’ wellbeing; hence we offer a variety of improvement programs aimed to preserve anyone’s psychological safety and daily needs.

Total Rewards

At Avio Aero, we understand the importance of Total Rewards. As a new joiner to Avio Aero we are pleased to offer the following welcome benefit plan:

  • Performance related bonuses and local bonus scheme

  • Flexible benefits platform

  • GE share plan

  • Life and injury insurance

  • Private medical cover  

  • Employee assistant program

  • Employee special awards (service and recognition)   

  • Local special agreements and discounts

  • English and languages training for you and one member of your family

  • Technical, Leadership and development trainings

Inclusion & Diversity

Avio Aero is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are strongly committed to maintain an inclusive and diverse environment. Every employment decision is taken regardless to national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, etc.

We are not all the same. Just be Yourself AvioAero!

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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