RPCA Machining Quality Leader

Job Description SummaryBuild and execute a comprehensive strategy for quality across RPCA Part Family including Global Machining supplier quality, Mill/Turn Development Cell, and APQP development. The comprehensive strategy would include growing the capability and competencies of the supplier quality team, driving APQP across the rotating parts and compressor airfoils enterprise, driving quality improvements through proactive initiatives that reduce quality escapes, executing supplier audits, and managing quality escapes and root cause and corrective actions.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Proactive development of supplier quality and manufacturing capabilities and performance by leveraging APQP tools to proactively identify and mitigate risk before it manifests into a quality defect
• Drive improved supplier performance through launch and execution of supplier Quality Improvement Plans to (1) reduce quality escapes, (2) reduce manufactured defects, and (3) improve additional metrics such as corrective action cycle times, design change incorporation cycle time, etc
• Proactive development of RPCA inspection standardization and technology advancement through support of Mill/Turn development initiative
• Drive APQP and AS13100 into the internal and external supply base, in order to transform the quality capabilities of the Part Family.
• Utilize FLIGHT DECK and its lean tools as the primary method to solve problems and manage performance of the commodity
• Lead critical problem solving efforts for supplier escapes
• Develop competencies of the Supplier Quality team, in order to continually improve technical capabilities of the team to (1) understand and relate to the product from a design technology perspective; (2) understand and relate to GD&T and technical standards typically found on prints and standards for the product; (3) understand and relate to the commodity's typical manufacturing and metrology processes from a manufacturing engineering perspective; and (4) improve understanding of critical quality tools required to analyze a supplier's process (MSA, GR&R, SPC, Statistics, etc)

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience
• At least 5 years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Supplier Quality Engineering, or Product Engineering
• People leadership experience

Desired Characteristics

• Strong oral and written communication skills, as the role will interface with leaders within GE Aerospace and within the external supply base
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute critical initiatives.
• Established project management skills.
• 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

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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