Lead Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description:

The Manufacturing Engineering Specialist will work in a production shop environment and serve as manufacturing product engineer. The role will have hardware ownership of an afterburner component. The role will provide exposure to lean principles and techniques as we redesign and improve our processes and lay-out. Opportunity for growth within the department and within GE.Impacts departmental operations and responsible for ergonomic/safety improvements, FTY, inactive hardware, aged WIP, cost of quality (CoQ) and productivity/efficiency improvements. Quantifiable job outcomes include supporting a 0-injury culture, reducing CoQ by 50% YoY, reduce aged WIP greater than 365 days to $0, and support delivery for a $66M business.Roles and ResponsibilitiesDeveloping in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline. Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute policy/strategy.In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.Uses judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters with guidance. Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks. Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor with proven interpersonal skills or an early people leader who can hire and develop talent. Provides informal guidance to new team members