Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Engineer repair special tooling
• Execute the design, analysis, and evaluation of repair special tooling using sound engineering principles while adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product/program requirements (with a focus on mechanical engineering).
• Become a technical subject matter expert
• Develop and deepen your knowledge of engine component repair, using your prior experience and technical expertise to help drive and execute policy and strategy.
• Connect engineering with business impact
• Build an in-depth understanding of key business drivers and how your work supports them. Understand how your team integrates with other teams and contributes to the broader operation.
• Solve complex, real-world problems
• Use your experience and judgment to propose creative solutions beyond set parameters. Draw on multiple internal resources, technical skills, and analytical thinking to tackle more challenging tasks.
• Continuously improve repair tooling processes
• Develop, refine, and standardize repair special tooling processes and requirements to improve reliability, safety, and ease of use.
• Design with the customer in mind
• Understand and design to customer requirements and CTQs, ensuring solutions meet or exceed expectations.
• Own schedule, cost, and quality
• Monitor and manage the schedule, cost, and quality of your design deliverables, keeping programs on track and stakeholders aligned.
• Support manufacturing and the shop floor
• Partner with manufacturers through builds, validate and troubleshoot equipment on the shop floor, and ensure tooling works as intended in real-world conditions.
• Drive improvement projects; Lead and support special projects aimed at improving design processes, tooling performance, and overall quality.
• Travel with purpose; Occasionally travel to support tooling validations, resolve issues, and connect directly with users of your designs.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology from an accredited university (or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 4 years of manufacturing or repair-related processes experience)
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Mechanical Engineering ,Mechanical Engineering Technology, manufacturing or repair-related processes

Desired Characteristics and Experiences

• Proficient in design, test, and analysis tools and systems
• Strong in stress analysis / stack-up
• Experience in repair special tooling design
• Experience with aerospace component repair and manufacturing processes
• Understanding/experience with machining and manufacturing
• Experience with machine workholding of engine hardware from piece parts to complex assemblies
• Experience with repair processes including: Flame, Arc, Plasma Spray, HVOF, HVAF, chemical cleaning, FPI, NDT, surface treatment, thermal spray, paint, machining, composites, welding, additive, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to analyze and resolve problems
• Established project management skills to drive results
• Strong PC proficiency
• Respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Open communicator who shares critical information
• Speaks with candor and contributes constructively
• Quick learner who strategically prioritizes work
• Committed to delivering results
• Strong communicator and collaborator
• Confident decision-maker able to influence and lead across teams
• Analytical-minded and challenges existing processes
• Applies critical thinking and seeks better ways of working

This role is an excellent fit for someone who wants to see their designs in action, spend time both at the screen and on the shop floor, and play a critical role in how engine components are repaired safely and efficiently.

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.

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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