Small Uncrewed Engines Systems Engineer - Requirements & Risk Owner

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Job Description Summary

Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas, we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight!

This is a new market space for GE Aerospace to satisfy propulsion needs for the warfighter on autonomous uncrewed vehicles and missile systems. A requirements and risk focal is required to manage customer expectations, program risk, and alignment to future product needs.

This role resides in the system engineering function for small uncrewed engines. Systems engineering is a cross-functional engineering discipline centered on an approach, mindset, and process. All activities that consider both the business and the technical needs of the customers with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the users needs. The discipline that executes a robust process of design, creation, and optimization of systems, consisting of identification and quantification of system requirements, creation of alternate system design concepts, performance of design trade studies, selection and implementation of the best designs and verification that the design is properly integrated and executed. Process that proceeds from concept to production to operation.

Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

This role is located on GE Aerospace's Evendale, OH campus and has limited opportunities to work remotely. Travel is expected for this role: once every 6 weeks to customer and partner sites.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

·  Conducts component and product integration. All activities that span multiple components and products and are concerned with how to integrate for maximum performance and operability.
·  Manages product and systems requirements, risk, specifications and flow down.
·  Drives validation and verification activities for the overall product/system, including system level testing. Responsible for defining product requirements for the module / component / subcontractors and partners teams. Manages interface between components and execution organizations.
·  Responsible for driving trades within the teams designing the components. Manages the overall product configuration and configuration control system.
·  Developing specialized knowledge in their discipline. Serves as best practice/quality resource. Has awareness of latest technical developments in own area. Contributes towards strategy and policy development and ensure delivery within area of responsibility.
·  Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
·  Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering. Takes new perspective on existing solutions.
·  Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.
·  Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with moderate risks and resource requirements. Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.

Required Qualifications

·  Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited university or college
·  Minimum of 5 years of relevant turbomachinery and/or systems integration design experience.
·  Experience with requirements tracking software (e.g., CAMEO, DOORS, etc.)
·  Experience with risk management frameworks and tracking software
·  This role requires the successful candidate to maintain a US Government Security Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. Citizenship. Preference will be given to candidates who currently hold US Government Security Clearance

Desired Characteristics

·  Experience with government proposal and contract execution
·  Propulsion and airframe integration experience
·  Strong leadership skills, with the ability to influence others and lead small teams.
·  Strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
·  Demonstrated ability to analyze & solve technical design challenges with sound documentation, planning, & program management skills.
·  Ability to independently organize, document, plan and execute simultaneous projects while aligning with business priorities.
·  Familiarity with and ability to leverage LEAN principles
·  Ability to thrive in ambiguity

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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