Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the theory, design, development, practical implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of the GE Aerospace SMS to support product safety methodologies and techniques for engines, services, systems, equipment and devices.
• Execute processes to identify, evaluate, assess and mitigate safety risks inherent to the product design, production and maintenance, to an acceptable level.
• Provide SME guidance for safety policies, procedures, rigorous safety risk assessments, hazard evaluations, risk correction/control, monitoring, safety assurance processes, training and safety promotion across the Business in coordination with global GE Aerospace business activities and priorities.
• Ensures integration of human factors principles to drive design, production and maintenance improvements in order to eliminate human error in products and services.
• Requires specialized expert knowledge within the SMS function. Ability to influence the development of strategy for the area of responsibility, including control of resources and influences policy formulation within GE Aerospace, with external industry partners, suppliers and regulators.
• Interprets simple internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve SMS performance, products, processes or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may inform work.
• Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems in areas of operational, product management, manufacturing, technology, services or engineering. Has ability to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders. Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations. Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
• Provide technical consultation on product problems throughout the business including supplier and field support.
• Provide technical consultation to cross-functional teams throughout the business to improve or resolve manufacturing, product center, supplier, or field issues.
• Effectively communicate and provide recommendations through the analysis, preparation and presentation of technical data to internal and external GE customers using reports, records, and letters

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Systems Engineering

Desired Characteristics

• Masters degree in engineering from an accredited university or college
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to document, plan, market and manage programs that further the knowledge, understanding and capability of the business.
• Problem analysis and resolution skills
• Demonstrated leadership in defining the state of the art in at least one technical specialty, along with the ability to teach and set standard practices within this field.

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.

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