Advanced Quality Engineer - Turbine Airfoils

Advanced Quality Engineer - Turbine Airfoils

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Job Description Summary This role is for a Lead Turbine Airfoils Advanced Quality Engineer within the Product Safety & Quality organization. The Advanced Quality Engineer is an accomplished and forward‑thinking quality engineer who will serve as the strategic arm of our Turbine Airfoil Quality organization, reporting directly to the Part Family Advanced Quality Leader. This role is pivotal in driving proactive transformations, leading strategic initiatives that enhance quality processes and outcomes, implementing policy enhancements to address systemic issues, and fostering a culture of operational and problem‑solving excellence.

The successful candidate will support across the part family to perform root‑cause and corrective actions, read‑across activities, standardisation, and implement permanent tactical and systemic corrective actions across the part family. The team will also support and equip the broader Turbine Airfoils Quality team with the skills and methodologies needed to achieve superior execution, redesign processes to align with organisational objectives and continuous‑improvement principles, and create a culture of team‑based problem‑solving and standardisation within the manufacturing shops, suppliers and across the value stream.

Travel in this role is likely to be 10‑50% depending on part family performance and needs, primarily to Turbine Airfoil sites in Eastern United States.

• Individual contributor with expertise in quality and/or turbine airfoils, with the ability to mentor and influence with indirect leadership skills.
• Utilises in‑depth knowledge of turbine airfoils design and quality, and analytical thinking to execute policy/strategy.
• Defines and leads the implementation of the quality organisation, process, and tools to support strategy, implementing a culture of quality and leading improvement initiatives to achieve business excellence.
• Directly develops expertise within the quality and turbine airfoils manufacturing team, pivotal to the cultural and technical transformation of the TAVS quality team.
• Builds the reputation of the organisation, creates and influences policy, and ensures delivery within own function, linking with other functions of the organisation.
• Communicates complex messages and negotiates internally and externally with others, influencing peers to take action and negotiating with external partners, vendors, or customers.
• Has moderate influence on part family quality.
• Supports diverse cross‑functional teams to find creative solutions to address complex problems that may impact the organisation, evaluating quality of information received and questioning conflicting data for analysis.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least four years of experience in turbine airfoil quality).
• Additional three years of experience in turbine airfoils quality, castings, manufacturing, and/or engineering.
• US Person (see Internal Revenue Code section 7701(a)(31) for definition).

• Quality expertise and/or turbine airfoil mechanical design expertise.
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritises work, accountable.
• Strong recognised leadership ability, strong communicator, decision‑maker, collaborative.
• Established project management skills.
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn.
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candour, contributes constructively.
• Problem solver: analytical‑minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal and leadership skills, demonstrated ability to analyse and resolve problems, lead programmes / projects, document, plan, market, and execute programmes.

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and wellbeing, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach; an Employee Assistance Program with 24/7…