Job Description Summary

The GE Aerospace Research Programs Office connects the business, product, and technology needs of GE Aerospace and our customers (including the U.S. Government) with the technical workforce within the research center to provide differentiated solutions. As the Future Power & Propulsion Platform Leader, you will partner with the GE Aerospace Research technical & leadership teams to ensure efficient utilization of R&D resources and alignment to near-, mid-, and far-field priorities. You will support the Director of the Programs Office in balancing and optimizing the overall research portfolio mix across multiple stakeholder groups, including GE Aerospace, industry customers, partners, and U.S. Government agencies.

As a Platform Leader, you will manage dedicated coordination and sensing rhythms with GE Aerospace and external customers, ensuring strong connectivity to emerging and challenging needs. In turn, you will foster collaboration amongst appropriate Research teams and harmonize efforts by developing a unified Platform growth pathway that is embraced by both internal and external stakeholders. By doing so, you will translate customer needs to actionable program at the Research Center, help launch research initiatives, and facilitate technology transfer to relevant end-markets across the aerospace sector. This will ensure that GE Aerospace Research continues to be a leading force in driving progress and creating solutions within the industry.

The Future Power & Propulsion Platform Leader will ensure that GE Aerospace power and propulsion systems deliver superior capability and competitive advantage to our customers. Developing the next generation systems - across land, sea, air, and space - must prioritize researching innovative and differentiating designs, components, and technologies, with a strong focus on scalable production and fleet support. Additionally, you will partner across the Research Center to collectively own customer relationships with internal and external stakeholders, serving as primary customer contacts for access to the research center.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Build, coordinate, and own the planning, funding, and pursuit of external contracts on behalf of the Platform Leader project portfolio to deliver capabilities and solutions for customers.
• Connect the Research team to customer challenges and help build cross organizational teams to solve them
• Ensure vitality of existing technology programs while creating new relationships across the business; champion & communicate customer needs, urgency, and general business situation to the research center
• Define product & technical differentiation roadmaps and inform long-term technical strategies with the business technology and product management leaders in GE Aerospace
• Identify key Aerospace Research technical competencies vital to the business and work with research center’s technical leadership on resource planning and to identify and apply key internal and external technologies
• Understand business product portfolio and link customer needs to technical programs that will better serve the customer
• Be a value-add partner in strategy planning processes; establish Aerospace Research technologists as vital strategic partners in business planning process
• Host internal and external visitors at the Research Centers as partners to see the future through collaborative engagements
• Partner with internal stakeholders to understand and drive the shaping of technology development opportunities that deliver value to various governmental customers
• Provide insights on technical demand and skill sets to Operations Leaders and site leadership enabling them to architect growth plans
• Support program accountability: monitor execution on key customer projects; identify and facilitate cross-lab tradeoffs as required; be alert to and assist as needed on key customer deliverables
• Prioritize & drive adoption of critical technologies and innovations from the research center into the GE Aerospace business or into complementary third-party partners
• Manage customer relationships and actively seek feedback to ensure needs are met and improvements to the process are continuously being made
• Recruit, grow, and develop talent to orchestrate cross-pollination between GE Aerospace and the Aerospace Research Center

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate of Master’s Degree in Science or Engineering and 10 years’ experience in relevant field.
• Strong technical background with a proven history of project/program management and has an in-depth knowledge of GE application portfolio
• Highly organized with the a