Lynn Engineering Compliance Lead

Job Description SummaryAre 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!
In this role, you will drive initiatives to improve compliance efficacy within the engineering function through cross-functional coordination with legal, operations, cyber security, central compliance, sourcing, international trade compliance (ITC) and other groups. You will provide effective coordination of metrics, dashboards, and engineering processes for significant impact on approaches, projects, programs, and ways of working within engineering. You will be responsible for improving quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the engineering organization within Defense & Systems (D&S), including significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies shaped by cross-functional engagement, this role requires high levels of operational judgment and ability to operate with moderate autonomy.
This position reports into the engineering central operations organization for D&S and directly reports to the D&S engineering compliance leader. This position sits on-site full-time in our Lynn, MA facility.
Come and elevate your career in a facility that combines a rich tradition of aviation technology with a deep commitment to the future of flight. The GE Aerospace manufacturing site in Lynn designs, produces, assembles, and tests military and commercial aircraft engines and components. With 1.6 million square feet of manufacturing space, we’re making a huge contribution to the future of flight. And, considering that very first jet engines were born here in 1942, we clearly are the career home of people who are deeply knowledgeable about building quality engines. What’s more, GE Aerospace has invested more than $100 million in our facility in the last five years alone.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Supports D&S Engineering compliance leader to drive compliance within the Lynn Engineering team and to design and implement compliance programs involving relevant risk areas.
• Partners with Lynn Engineering leaders to sustain and grow a culture of integrity within respective sections and sub-sections.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build understanding. Skilled in communication required to influence others on topics of compliance.
• Identifies visual risk leading indicators and provides a face and open relationship with engineers to enhance trust and reduce risk in reporting concerns.
• Provides guidance and coaching to the Engineering team in terms of compliance expertise.
• Partners with D&S Business Compliance & Ethics Leader (BCL) as needed.
• Coordinate and lead risk assessments and abatement actions locally for Lynn Engineering.
• Collaborate across the D&S Engineering compliance team to share concerns, risk areas, and ensure common practices are observed and accountability to the success of routine local audits.
• Pulse frontline Engineering leaders and provide feedback and develop action plans.
• Requires specialized knowledge within the function. Influence the development of strategy for the area of compliance, including influencing policy formulation and operationalize outcomes.
• Acts with humility, leads with transparency, and delivers with focus
• Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems in areas of operationalizing engineering compliance. Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and can construct and provide recommendations. Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in engineering from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum of 5 years of operations and practices within engineering environments.
• Legal 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 Characteristics

• Familiar with current aerospace and/or defense industry compliance, vouchering and collaboration tools and resources.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
• Established project management skills.

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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.

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