Job Description Summary

GE Aviation Systems Avionics Engineering is seeking a mid-career engineer interested in a mechanical engineering role to help us invent the future of flight, lift people up, and bring them home safely within our Platform Hardware organization. In this role, you will be challenged to use your technical skillset, problem-solving abilities, and lean mindset to meet key business objectives for our commercial and military customers across a variety of our product lines. This opportunity is bonus eligible and will be flexible to either a work location of Grand Rapids, MI or Clearwater, FL. GE offers competitive salaries and a full breadth of benefits including 401K company contribution with additional matching plans, flexible hybrid work arrangements, generous permissive time off policy, tuition reimbursement for future degrees, company paid life insurance, and a variety of competitive health insurance choices to meet your needs.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Perform mechanical design, interconnect evaluations, mechanical component selection, and tolerance stack-up analysis activities for avionics products.
• Create mechanical models, drawings, and bills of material.
• Perform thermal, stress, and vibration analyses and tests to ensure product compliance to environmental and operational requirements, and provide conclusive technical reports.
• Perform design and work-product reviews.
• Participate in Design for Manufacturing (DFM), maintainability, and testability concepts.
• Take part in design architectural trade studies and proposals.
• Collaborate with customers to understand their needs.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers.
• Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Create design concepts and budget estimates for bid and proposal activities.
• Provide timely technical support to the production factory for root cause investigations.
• Identify and implement creative improvements to department processes and tools.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 5 years' of professional experience in mechanical engineering.
• US Person: This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to access to export-controlled technology. GE will require proof of status prior to employment. ​

Desired Characteristics:

• Attention to detail.
• Experience in packaging design for electronics assemblies.
• Working knowledge and application experience in Dimensioning and Tolerancing per ASME Y14.5.
• Proficiency in model and drawing creation using Siemens NX.
• Experience using Product Lifecycle Management systems (PTC Windchill).
• Proficiency in vibration and thermal analysis using FEA tools.
• Familiarity with aerospace standards, materials, and processes.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated structured problem solving skills.
• Accountability and ownership.
• Continuous improvement mindset.

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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