Job Description SummaryThe Sub-Section Manager for Flight Safety, Commercial Engines is responsible for ensuring product safety and reliability, aligning with functional, business, and company objectives. Key responsibilities include performing system safety trade studies/analyses, supporting the safety management system teams, and ensuring product reliability. The role involves implementing and enhancing safety policies and procedures and managing safety-related certification efforts while promoting a safety culture. This position reports to the Executive Commercial Flight Safety Leader.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

Provide leadership and technical direction for assigned program tasks and personnel.

Advocate for enhancements in fire safety and reliability for new aircraft engine designs, adhering to technical and program requirements.Partner with Product Line Engineering teams to develop, drive, and support reliability goals and requirements.Promote industry presence and partnerships; this will include influencing and developing technical standards for fire prevention and testing.Represent the Flight Safety Office in appropriate program meetings to ensure compliance to the policies and procedures set in place. Promote a safety culture within the enterprise.Provide support, council, and recommendations to section management.Establish work group goals within framework of section technical and financial objectives.Maintain broad awareness of efforts within group to assure technical quality excellence, timely completion of work and reviews, appropriate use of resources, and responsiveness to customer/program needs.Facilitate communication of technical and business information between organizations and within work groupCommunicate with management on technical, organizational, resource and personnel issues.Define roles and responsibilities for assigned personnel.Conduct performance appraisals and participate in salary planning.Promote professional growth through timely performance feedback, coaching and counseling.Ensure company compliance initiatives and training requirements are implemented within work group.This role will have direct reports

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Computer Science (or high school diploma/GED with 6 years' experience in systems engineering).At least 5 additional years of experience in a program or project leadership role within an engineering environmentLegal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.  We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Desired Skills:

Effective team building and project management ability.Strong oral and written communication skills, this role requires interfacing with senior management and external regulators.Strong interpersonal and leadership skillsAwareness of statistical reliability techniques and lifecycle managementConduct performance appraisals and participate in salary planning.Promote professional growth through timely performance feedback, coaching and counseling.Ensure company compliance initiatives and training requirements are implemented within work group.Knowledge of safety risk assessment generation, interpretation and presentationAbility to travel globally.Experience with the Flight Safety & Reliability tasks for Commercial / Military programs through the product life cycle; including design, product risk assessments, hazard tracking, accident/incident record maintenance, and accident incident investigation.Act as a change agent to bring common safety & reliability process to Commercial & Military programs.Should be willing to become an accident investigator.

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 Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace 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 Aerospace 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