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GE Aerospace

Lead Engineer - Mechanical Design

Blue Ash, OH

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.

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In Advanced Mechanical Design we design and test innovative solutions for the future of our business. In this role you will help us make advances in aircraft component design. This role is a hardware design role and is vital to the development of our next generation of aircraft engines.

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

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Develop mechanical designs for assigned hardware that satisfy program and internal design requirements.
  • Integrate collaboratively with diverse teams from multiple disciplinary functions such as thermal design, aero design, and systems design.
  • Communicate risks within their designs to appropriate stakeholders to help drive to collective decisions on how best to proceed as a diverse team.
  • Create innovative solutions that benefit the assigned hardware and overall module to meet broad design objectives.
  • The person in this role will complete design reviews, drawing releases, quality requirements, assembly analyses, amongst other activities.
  • Suggest areas where technology advancements are needed and recommend approaches / programs to make those advancements.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline from an accredited university or college
  • At least 3 additional years of experience in an engineering capacity

Desired Characteristics

  • Collaborative style, valuing and enhancing diversity of teams
  • Experience in solving mechanical design problems
  • Experience in mechanical design for aerospace propulsion systems such as rotors, structures, or airfoil component design.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
  • Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
  • Established self-prioritization skills

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.

#LI-AK1

#RISE

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.

Additional Information

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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 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

Client-provided location(s): Evendale, OH, USA
Job ID: GE_Aerospace-R3755895
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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