Turbine Airfoils Coatings Quality Leader

Front Line Manager

Front Line Manager reporting to the Turbine Airfoils Core Solutions Quality Leader responsible for creating, developing, and implementing a supplier quality strategy for a segment of the RPCA Coatings & Chemical Process quality team, ensuring alignment with the Part Family Quality Leader's vision for the entire team. Individual will drive quality for protective coating and chemical processing suppliers, including quality plan implementation, part qualification quality support, and utilizing APQP tools to proactively prevent defects. Own supplier results, drive improvements utilizing supplier scorecard and process data. Own supplier audits, ensuring compliance, and driving improvement plans where needed. Interprets simple internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may influence work scope, standards, load reduction, and growth.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• People leader of a small to medium team (3-6) of professionals and contractors, accountable for all quality outcomes of coating and chem process vendors for Turbine airfoils
• Drive improved supplier performance through launch and execution of supplier Quality Improvement Plans to (1) reduce quality escapes, (2) reduce manufactured defects, and (3) improve additional metrics such as corrective action cycle times, design change incorporation cycle time, etc
• Collaborate with internal sites utilizing supplier for purchased services on quality concerns and best practices.
• Drive APQP and AS13100 into the supply base, to transform the quality capabilities of the commodity.
• Utilize FLIGHT DECK and its lean tools as the primary method to solve problems and manage performance of the commodity.
• Lead critical problem solving efforts for supplier escapes
• Lead team to partner with sites managing FAI and SPS packages on farmout instructions to ensure proper technical expertise is involved.
• Develop competencies of the Supplier Quality team, in order to continually improve technical capabilities of the team to (1) understand and relate to the product from a design technology perspective; (2) understand and relate to GD&T and technical standards typically found on prints and standards for the product; (3) understand and relate to the commodity's typical manufacturing and metrology processes from a manufacturing engineering perspective; and (4) improve understanding of critical quality tools required to analyze a supplier's process (MSA, GR&R, SPC, Statistics, etc)

Required Qualifications :

Desired Characteristics :

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.

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)).

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