Quality Engineer

Job Description Summary

The GE Aerospace facility in Madisonville, KY produces a mix of more than 800 unique High Pressure Turbine Blades and Nozzles in support of 37 aircraft engine programs.

Approximately 85% of our products are deployed in military aircraft with a 47/53% mix of engines and repairs. This campus is the career home for people who share a commitment to learning, achieving, and collaboration. We take pride in our level of volunteerism and community service as well as a culture that helped us achieve 16.5 average employee years of service.

As the Quality Engineer, you will develop, initiate, try storm, and maintain quality systems, procedures, guidelines, and processes to ensure fulfillment of internal and external requirements. You will ensure that projects and products are compliantly meeting engineering and quality standards, demonstrate working knowledge of industry's quality system, advanced product quality planning, statistical process control, measurement metrology, auditing, event investigation, leading corrective action, and preventative countermeasures. As the Quality Manager, you will work and communicate cross-functionally and carry out the commitment of quality compliance to the facility's diverse environment.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and monitor overall process mapping for quality improvement purposes
• Standardize processes, tools and performance management system
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of a discipline and analytical thinking to execute policy/strategy
• Act as a resource for colleagues and Quality Organization
• Extract, compile, examine, and evaluate data to formulate into meaningful analytics to aid decision making of the leaders, colleagues, and organization
• Explain information, develop skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field
• Convey performance expectations and handle sensitive issues
• Problem-solve quality issues through problem definition, measure the frequency and severity, analyze the data yielding from process/field/simulation, improve the situation with effective countermeasures, and control the processes going forward
• Use judgment to propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address more complicated, day-to-day problems

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma/ GED with at least 4 years of experience in manufacturing, shop manufacturing, or quality + minimum of 3 years manufacturing, shop manufacturing, or quality experience

Desired Characteristics:

• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

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)).

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