GE Aerospace is a leading company in the aerospace industry, seeking a Senior Casting Technology Manufacturing Engineer. This role involves providing technical leadership for investment castings, partnering with suppliers, and driving improvements in manufacturability and productivity.
Responsibilities:
- Provide process and product technical leadership for the Castings commodity, including SX or equiax investment castings
- Partner with suppliers to identify and implement corrective actions to eliminate the cause and prevent recurrence
- Act as a change agent to advance world-class performance and standard work across the supply base
- Own supplier technical relationships; mentor suppliers on GE Aerospace processes, specifications, and methods; ensure compliance and capability
- Lead cross-functional problem solving, to identify true root cause and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions
- Improve manufacturability through design-for-casting, specification clarity, and process capability improvements
- Clearly communicate progress, risks, challenges, and countermeasures to leadership and stakeholders
- Review and approve significant/special processes; ensure adherence to standards and qualification requirements
- Collaborate with Quality and Design Engineering to ensure new and changed processes meet established metrics; align with other commodities on strategy and objectives
- Partner with suppliers and internal teams to interpret drawings/specifications, ensuring conformance and clarity
- Identify and onboard new suppliers; lead technical qualifications and readiness through Manufacturing and Quality Planning reviews and support supplier Castings Audits
- Develop strong working relationships with casting supplier technical teams
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Materials/Metallurgy, Mechanical, Manufacturing, or related field)
- Minimum of 5 years of materials engineering, castings, mechanical engineering or a related field
- Additive manufacturing experience
- Metal Injection Molding (MIM) experience
- Proficiency with Siemens NX or comparable CAD
- Sand Castings Experience
- Titanium Experience
- Significant experience in investment castings (SX or equiax), with demonstrated yield, capability, and cost improvements
- Hands-on expertise across investment casting special processes (wax, shell, melt/solidification control, heat treat, HIP, NDT) and specification compliance
- Strong problem solving and project management skills
- New Product Introduction experience
- Experience maturing technologies and processes
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management; ability to influence without authority
- Humble learner: Respectful, receptive to feedback, agile, and continuously improving; seeks out diverse perspectives
- Transparent communicator: Shares critical information proactively; speaks with candor; engages constructively to resolve issues
- Focused and accountable: Fast learner with strong ownership; meets commitments and drives results against SQDC targets (Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost in that order)