Job DescriptionKey Responsibilities

Safety, Quality, Delivery & Cost (SQDC) Leadership

• Lead composite manufacturing engineering activities with an uncompromising focus on Safety and Quality while delivering on cost, delivery, and rate commitments.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for critical manufacturing, tooling, and quality issues impacting certified aerospace hardware.
• Ensure compliance with AS9100, NADCAP, FAA regulations, internal GE specifications, and product certification requirements.
• Champion GE Aerospace FLIGHT DECK operating principles to drive standard work, problem solving, and continuous improvement.

Technical & Manufacturing Leadership (Hands-On)

• Provide technical authority for composite manufacturing processes including hand layup, AFP/ATL, resin infusion, RTM, autoclave curing, compression molding, and bonded assemblies.
• Lead process development, validation, and production readiness activities for new and existing aerospace programs.
• Review and approve manufacturing plans, process specifications, work instructions, and engineering changes.
• Lead structured root cause investigations (PFMEA, RCCA) for non-conformances, escapes, yield losses, and tooling-related issues.

Tooling Engineering, Configuration Control & GD&T

• Own the composite tooling engineering strategy, including molds, cure tooling, trim and drill fixtures, assembly fixtures, and automated manufacturing systems.
• Ensure strict tooling configuration control, including tool definition, revision management, change incorporation, and alignment with product configuration baselines.
• Lead tooling qualification, first article inspection (FAI), and ongoing tool health and capability assessments.
• Apply and enforce GD&T (ASME Y14.5) principles to composite parts and tooling to ensure dimensional integrity, interchangeability, and producibility at rate.
• Partner with design engineering to influence datum structures, tolerance schemes, and tool design to balance performance, manufacturability, and lifecycle cost.

Plant & Equipment (P&E) Strategy and Execution

• Lead manufacturing engineering ownership of P&E strategy to enable current production and future growth in composite manufacturing.
• Define equipment capability requirements, capacity models, and rate-readiness plans aligned with program demand forecasts.
• Partner with Operations, Facilities, and Finance to develop capital investment cases for new equipment, tooling, automation, and facility upgrades.
• Provide technical oversight for P&E selection, specification, procurement, installation, commissioning, and qualification.
• Ensure new and existing equipment meets safety, quality, and regulatory requirements and is fully integrated into standard work.
• Drive equipment reliability, uptime, and lifecycle management through data-driven improvements and obsolescence planning.
• Support long-term site and footprint planning to enable production ramp, new product introduction, and cost competitiveness.

Organizational & People Leadership

• Lead and develop a multi-level manufacturing engineering organization, including senior engineers sub section leader and tooling manager.
• Establish clear technical standards, governance, and decision-making frameworks across composite manufacturing.
• Drive hiring, succession planning, and capability development aligned with long-term GE Aerospace production and growth strategies.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, respect, and continuous improvement consistent with GE Aerospace values.

Program & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as the primary composites manufacturing engineering interface to Design Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Operations.
• Provide manufacturing engineering leadership for program milestones including design reviews, production readiness reviews, and rate readiness assessments.
• Support supplier selection, qualification, and development for composite materials, tooling, and external manufacturing partners.
• Influence make/buy decisions and manufacturing footprint strategies across current production shop floor.

Strategy, Scale & Continuous Improvement

• Define and execute long-term composites manufacturing strategy, including automation, advanced inspection, and digital manufacturing initiatives.
• Lead capital investment planning for tooling, equipment, and facilities to support production ramp and cost reduction objectives.
• Drive Lean, FLIGHT DECK, and cost-out initiatives while maintaining aerospace safety and quality standards.
• Establish metrics and operating rhythms to track engineering effectiveness, process capability, and organizational health.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing, or related discipline).
• 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams in a regulated aerospace production environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in composite materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, and inspection.
• Strong working knowledge of GD&T (ASME Y14.5) and its application to composite parts and tooling.
• Proven experience with tooling configuration control and formal aerospace change management processes.
• Experience supporting certified aerospace production programs and rate manufacturing.
• Willingness to support on-site manufacturing operations and occasional travel as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in aerospace composite manufacturing engineering.
• Experience with automated composite fabrication, robotics, and digital thread initiatives.
• Familiarity with PFMEA, SPC, MRB, FAI, and advanced quality systems.

Key Leadership Attributes

• Strong technical judgment and bias for action
• Ability to lead through influence in a matrixed organization
• Commitment to safety, quality, and compliance
• Clear communicator across executive, engineering, and shop-floor teams
• Continuous improvement and customer-focused mindset

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. ​

GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

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This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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