Lead Supplier Quality Engineer - Controls and Accessories

GE Aerospace is a leading company in the aerospace sector, seeking a Lead Supplier Quality Engineer to drive Product Quality Engineering activities for assigned suppliers in the Controls and Accessories commodity. The role involves overseeing supplier quality assurance, managing production approvals, and utilizing analytical skills to improve supplier performance and ensure compliance with industrial standards.

Responsibilities:

• Includes both Supplier Quality Assurance and Supplier Quality Development with a focus on Product Quality Engineering. Includes supplier qualifications, action plans, audits, performance monitoring, and assisting key suppliers towards industrial standards of excellence. PQEs have various levels of differentiation which are related to level of technical understanding of engineering drawings and ability to manage vendors
• Production approval ownership for hardware within the Controls and Accessories Organization including components such as electronics, mechanicals, fluid systems, air systems, valves, actuators, etc. Utilizes in-depth knowledge of a discipline and analytical thinking to execute policy/strategy. Basic knowledge of related job disciplines
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements. Explains information; developing skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field. Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues
• Jobs at this level function with some autonomy but are subject to functional practices and precedents or are covered by well-defined policies or review of end results. The job allows modification of procedures and practices covering work as long as the end results meet standards of acceptability (quality, volume, timeliness etc.)
• Uses some judgment and has the ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address more complicated, day-to-day problems. Has ability to prioritize information for data analysis. Uses technical experience and analytical thinking. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university (or a high school diploma/GED with a minimum of 4 years (quality) experience + minimum of 3 years (quality) experience)
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs
• Established project management skills