Job Description Summary

Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas, we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight!

Engineering is at the center of what we do, and we are looking for talented, innovative engineers who can help us design and develop products for today, tomorrow, and in the future. If you are a dreamer, doer, and inventor who wants your voice to be heard and see your ideas take flight, this is the opportunity for you.

Location: Grand Rapids, MI

This position, which offers a blend of onsite and hybrid work arrangements, is based in Grand Rapids and necessitates a presence in the office for 2-3 days each week. An extensive corporate relocation package is also available for eligible candidates.

Job Description

This role provides project and technical leadership within Platform Hardware team. In this role you will direct, manage, drive and support day-to-day Engineering, operations, continuous improvement, technology growth, and innovation projects. You will work across the organization to ensure technical rigor, compliance, and smart solutions in meeting project and business milestones.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide project management of multidisciplinary design teams, managing cost, scope, and schedule.

• Lead technical design/verification activities and reviews.

• Develop product requirements specifications and assist in the high-level design of both Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) and Circuit Card (CCA).

• Provide oversight of the technical, planning and execution of projects.

• Apply standard principles of project management with forecasting, SPI, CPI and earned value.

• Lead projects to closeout. 

• Communicate status and determine program needs with stakeholders.

• Lead global teams to deliver competitive solutions in a timely manner.

• Perform product certification planning, reviews, test plan & procedure development for Integration, Verification & Robustness activities.

• Coordinate with sourcing and manufacturing to lead projects through transition from design to initial LRU build and into formal test.

• Oversee test execution and debug, perform generation of test reports, develop mitigation plans for issues & risks and monitor to closure.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college or a high school diploma / GED with at least 10 years of experience in hardware design/development or project leadership.

• This is a Grand Rapids, MI opportunity and requires relocation to Grand Rapids, MI if you do not currently reside in the area (relocation assistance provided).

Desired Characteristics:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

• Experience in writing and executing project plans.

• Knowledge of GE Hardware development processes.

• PMP training.

• Experience in Avionics products or Test Systems.

• Demonstrated experience with Proposals and RFQ.

• Demonstrated experience with supplier management.

• Strong customer interface skills and customer focus.

• Proactive, self-starter.

• Dedicated, fast paced, customer-centric solution provider with strong knowledge in product development process-flow, best practices and Lean methodologies for process improvement.

• Ability to quickly identify and resolve technical issues.

• Ability to manage key project initiatives, providing key milestone reporting and status updates.

• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to help build coalitions and consensus among team members and functional leaders to achieve cross functional collaboration and improvement.

• Ability to facilitate meetings and working sessions.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Detail oriented and well organized, the ability to work independently, exercise good judgment, and respond quickly to numerous high priorities and demands.

• Demonstrated management of expectations across multiple stakeholders and communicate information accordingly.

• Broad exposure and demonstrated mature leadership experience, including change management.

• Substantial experience in Test Software, Hardware & Systems Engineering.

• Experience evaluating and delegating work to outside suppliers

• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn.

• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively.

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance that begins on the first day of employment

• Permissive time off policy for newly hired employees

• Generous 401(k) plan 

• Tuition Reimbursement 

• Life insurance and disability coverage

• Bonus Plan Eligible

• And more!

Eligibility Requirement (s):

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this.

• US Citizen: This role requires use of technical data subject to U.S. Government contract restrictions and this posting is only for U.S. Citizens.  GE will require proof of status prior to employment.

• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

To protect the interests of all parties, GE Aerospace will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to GE Aerospace, including unsolicited resumes sent to a GE Aerospace mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to GE Aerospace coworkers, or to GE Aerospace’s database will be considered GE Aerospace property.