Job Description Summary

Are you ready to elevate your future? 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. You’ll learn and achieve as part of an on-going LEAN transformation. And, most importantly, you’ll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world.
We are looking for your talent to help us invent the future of flight in the Advanced Technologies Organization at GE Aerospace. Looking to impact aviation for years to come? Your work on RISE Technologies, including our Open Fan architecture, will usher in a new era of propulsion technology for next-generation aircraft and pave the way for a more sustainable future.
The Externals Design Lead Engineer for Advanced Programs will report to the Externals Design Manager within the GE Evendale Advanced Technologies Organization. The engineer will be responsible for designing externals for various ground-test and flight-test technology demonstrator engines, with hardware including tubes, ducts, hoses, harnesses, and brackets. The maturation of these technologies is central to the realization of aviation industry sustainability goals in the first half of the 21st century.
Successful early to mid-career GE Externals Design Engineers possess educational backgrounds including, but not limited to Aerospace and Mechanical engineering.
This position has the flexibility of optional hybrid schedule once fully trained. The hybrid schedule consists of working in the office minimum of 3 days per week and the option to work from home on the other days, based on team/project schedules.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

As the Externals Design Engineer, you will:

• Collaborate with the Systems Integration Team and other hardware module groups to design an externals package that meets cost, weight, reliability, and maintainability objectives.
• Apply GE best practices and design standards
• Present results to internal (GE) and external (airframer, government, …) customers
• Collaborate effectively in a diverse, global, distributed work environment.
• Lead a virtual/global team including Product Definition & Stress/Thermal/Flow Analysts
• Mentor less-experienced members of the team.

Additionally, you will have the responsible to continually mature your personal and professional development through training opportunities, mentorship, and formal career path definition.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a mechanical design discipline

Desired Characteristics:

• Highly-motivated, self-starting, and passionate
• Exceptional communication skills and willingness to continually improve communication and influencing skills in distributed work environments
• Experience designing jet-engine hardware.
• Experience using solid-modelling software
• Experience using Finite Element Analysis and interpreting results
• Experience with MS Office Suite
• Experience with supporting the assembly and test of complex mechanical systems.
• Demonstrated team leadership, collaboration, and facilitation skills
• Flexible and friendly approach to working in teams
• Project planning and project management experience
• Keen listener and innate drive to succeed

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

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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.

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