GE Aerospace Supply Chain Management - Placement

Job Description Summary

In the 12-month Supply Chain Management Placement, you'll gain invaluable skills and experience in covering all aspects of procurement, sourcing, logistics and supply chain management.

Are you ready to see your future take flight? At GE Aerospace, we are advancing aviation technologies for today and tomorrow. Your work will contribute to the production of advanced jet engines, components, and integrated systems that power commercial and military aircraft. You’ll be part of a team that embraces your drive, your curiosity, and your unique ideas and perspectives. Most importantly, you’ll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world!

At GE Aerospace, our Sourcing and Supply Chain teams are a critical part of inventing the future of flight. Dedicated to finding the supplies and tools for our manufacturing and business processes. These teams work with a variety of supplier partners researching the best rates and negotiating contracts to support every step in our supply chain process.

In this 12-month Supply Chain Management Placement, you'll gain hands‑on experience in procurement, sourcing, logistics, supplier delivery, and supply chain management. Your specific responsibilities will depend on your location and role. You may work on supplier engagement, order management, tender reviews, cost reduction, inventory management, or logistics support. You could collaborate on cross‑functional process improvements, drive cost‑out projects, and support initiatives like Product Cost and Defect PSR.

Responsibilities could include data analysis, dashboard creation, problem‑solving, and process optimization. You'll assist Operations Leaders with reporting, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure compliance with lean tools like Hoshin Kanri. Role might involve project planning, lean manufacturing implementation, SQDC monitoring, and driving daily management activities to align with business strategy and achieve targets.

We have several types of roles in this area:

• Lean/Process Improvement – Caledonian
• Dowty & Wales Materials and Planning – Caledonian & Cheltenham
• Sourcing Projects – Cheltenham
• Sourcing Fulfilment – Cheltenham
• Business Operations (Supply Chain) – Cheltenham
• Planning – Cheltenham
• Supply Chain Management – Dowty

You will be guided by structured goals and objectives and will have responsibility to deliver on inspiring projects supported by your People Leader and team around you. We will guide you throughout the year to ensure you make the best of your GE Aerospace experience. Your People Leader will offer coaching and mentoring, and you will be provided with the opportunity to connect with other placement students across the UK.

This opportunity is offered in our Cardiff, Caledonian (Prestwick, Scotland), Cheltenham, and Gloucester (Dowty, a GE Aerospace company) sites, during the process we will ask you to share your location and role preferences.

GE Aerospace Wales specialises in the maintenance, repair and overhaul of a range of commercial jet engines. The facility, based in Nantgarw, just north of Cardiff, occupies over 1.2 million square feet of workshop space and has two state‑of‑the‑art aircraft engine test facilities, along with a significant repair capability – known as Component Repair Wales. The site has the capability to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services for a range of engine types – including the world’s most powerful commercial aircraft engine the GE90‑115B and the world’s most popular commercial engine the CFM
56. As one of the largest commercial aircraft engine maintenance facilities in the world, with annual sales…