GE Aerospace is hiring: Lean Manufacturing Engineering in West Chester
GE Aerospace, West Chester, Butler County, US
Job Description Summary A proficient Lean Manufacturing Engineer in the additive materials and process team will apply engineering and scientific principles to innovate, mature, and demonstrate next generation turbine airfoil additive technologies. They will solve complex manufacturing issues using equipment/process data and use Flightdeck and lean principles. This role is based in the Engineering Material Systems Division with coordination through an interdisciplinary team. The mission is to solve fundamental materials systems and process problems with lab scale hypothesis tests followed by validation in pilot lines while delivering development components. Job Description Roles and Responsibilities
- Be on the leading edge of a new turbine airfoils design, materials, and additive process. The role will use data driven, fundamental lean and flightdeck principles to monitor and improve all steps of the AET process.
- Work to ensure Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost. Openness to iterate and collaborate systematically in an interdisciplinary team to achieve results.
- Be accountable for the quality of own work. Develop solutions and inventions to technical risks leveraging technical knowledge while building functional skills.
- Grow in technical knowledge and contribute to novel additive, ceramic core, and casting processes.
- Measure key materials, processes and hardware variables to meet the key metrics (SQDC).
- Support producibility evaluations including reviews and best practices. Assist in defining process requirements for all steps using historical data.
- Execute technical plans and or design of experiments to expand material and process capabilities to trouble shoot technical issues using flightdeck fundamentalists. Document results to enable knowledge sharing in applicable systems
- Partner with Supply Chain counterparts to fulfill short-term and long-term business objectives.
- Contribute to culture of safety, Flightdeck, structured problem-solving, LEAN, and data for tactical decision making.
- Communicate to the broader team including leadership on significant developments.
- Create, Foster and Empower everyone to live the culture of AMP team: SQCD, Customer Focus, and Teaming.
- Masters in Engineering or Science
- Lean training (Flightdeck, 6S Green belt, Lead Kaizen etc.)
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and indirect team leadership skills
- Ability to develop processes and procedures from concept to production release
- Comfortable with hands-on lab and pilot line environments