Job Description SummaryThe Externals Design Staff Engineer for Advanced Programs will report to the Externals Design Manager within the GE Evendale Advanced Technologies Organization. The engineer will be responsible for designing externals for various ground-test and flight-test technology demonstrator engines, with hardware including tubes, ducts, hoses, harnesses, and brackets. The maturation of these technologies is central to the realization of aviation industry sustainability goals in the first half of the 21st century.Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
As the Externals Design Engineer, you will:
- Collaborate with the Systems Integration Team and other hardware module groups to design an externals package that meets cost, weight, reliability, and maintainability objectives.
- Apply GE best practices and design standards
- Present results to internal (GE) and external (airframer, government, …) customers
- Collaborate effectively in a diverse, global, distributed work environment
- Lead a virtual/global externals module team including Design Engineers, Product Definition, & Stress/Thermal/Flow Analysts to achieve
- Mentor less-experienced members of the team.
Additionally, you will have the responsible to continually mature your personal and professional development through training opportunities, mentorship, and formal career path definition.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering accredited college or university
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a mechanical design discipline
Desired Characteristics
- Highly motivated, self-starting, and passionate
- Exceptional communication skills and willingness to continually improve communication and influencing skills in distributed work environments
- Significant experience designing jet-engine hardware
- Significant experience using solid-modelling software
- Significant experience using Finite Element Analysis and interpreting results
- Significant experience with MS Office Suite
- Significant experience with supporting the assembly and test of complex mechanical systems.
- Demonstrated team leadership, collaboration, and facilitation skills
- Flexible and friendly approach to working in teams
- Project planning and project management experience
- Keen listener and innate drive to succeed
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 offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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 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
