Digital Engineering - MBE Technology Manager

This role is based in Evendale, OH with on-site work expected at least 3 days a week.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead teams to formulate, validate, and implement digital capabilities, software & infrastructure

• Support program teams & enable model-based process requirements

• Planning & execution using lean/flight deck methodologies

• Developing and embedding change to processes for NPI

• Coordinate implementation of new processes with cross function experts in design, manufacture, and operations

• Lead efforts to solve both technical and schedule related problems

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other personnel

• Communicate roadmap and progress to subject matter experts, program leaders, and business leaders

• Ensure work is thoroughly documented

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from accredited university or college
• 8+ years of relevant experience (Design, Manufacturing, Ops, Project Management, Inspection)
• 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.
• Candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain US government security clearance
• Technical knowledge of manufacturing process
• Technical knowledge of design process
• Demonstrated leadership & project management
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to be self sufficient
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs
• Ability to analyze and resolve problems
• Ability to influence cross functional teams
• Ability to maintain or obtain a Government Security Clearance

Desired Characteristics:

• 3+ years of experience in an aerospace or engineering position
• 3+ years of experience in manufacturing process design
• Technical knowledge of best practices in MB-DMI
• Technical knowledge of product characteristic traceability
• Technical knowledge of product definition standards and GD&T
• Experience using Siemens NX CAD, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM/Teamcenter), Solumina, CAM, NC Programming

Business Acumen:
• Evaluates technology to drive features and roadmaps. Maps technology trends to internal vision. Differentiates buzzwords from value proposition. Embraces technology trends that drive excellence beyond traditional practices (e.g., Test automation in lieu of traditional QA practices).
• Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders. Recommends a well-researched recommendation of buy vs. build solution. Conveys the value proposition for the company by assessing financial risks and gains of decisions and return on investment (ROI). Manages the process of building and maintaining a successful alliance. Understands and successfully applies common analytical techniques, including ROI, SWOT, and Gap analyses. Able to clearly articulate the business drivers relevant to a given initiative.

Leadership:
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome. Uses experts or other third parties to influence.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team. Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization.
Communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.

Personal Attributes:
• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. 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.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes