The GE Aerospace facility in Madisonville, KY produces a mix of more than 800 unique High Pressure Turbine Blades and Nozzles in support of 37 aircraft engine programs.Approximately 85 of our products are deployed in military aircraft with a 47/53 mix of engines and repairs. This campus is the career home for people who share a commitment to learning, achieving, and collaboration. We take pride in our level of volunteerism and community service as well as a culture that helped us achieve 16.5 average employee years of service.As the Quality Engineer, you will develop, initiate, try storm, and maintain quality systems, procedures, guidelines, and processes to ensure fulfillment of internal and external requirements. You will ensure that projects and products are compliantly meeting engineering and quality standards, demonstrate working knowledge of industrys quality system, advanced product quality planning, statistical process control, measurement metrology, auditing, event investigation, leading corrective action, and preventative countermeasures. As the Quality Manager, you will work and communicate cross-functionally and carry out the commitment of quality compliance to the facilitys diverse environment.Job DescriptionRoles and Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement, and monitor overall process mapping for quality improvement purposes
- Standardize processes, tools and performance management system
- Utilize in-depth knowledge of a discipline and analytical thinking to execute policy/strategy
- Act as a resource for colleagues and Quality Organization
- Extract, compile, examine, and evaluate data to formulate into meaningful analytics to aid decision making of the leaders, colleagues, and organization
- Explain information, develop skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field
- Convey performance expectations and handle sensitive issues
- Problem-solve quality issues through problem definition, measure the frequency and severity, analyze the data yielding from process/field/simulation, improve the situation with effective countermeasures, and control the processes going forward
- Use judgment to propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address more complicated, day-to-day problems
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma/ GED with at least 4 years of experience in manufacturing, shop manufacturing, or quality)
Desired Characteristics:
- Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
- Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
- Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed
- Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
- Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker
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.
GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
Additional Job Description
Compensation Grade
PB1
This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
Additional Information
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities 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.
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
