Job Description Summary

The Advanced Lead Product Engineer acts as a critical liaison between production, aftermarket, and design engineering teams, ensuring alignment and collaboration across key areas of cost, delivery, and quality. This role encompasses four primary responsibilities:

* Providing daily tactical support to factory operations to address immediate needs and challenges.
* Driving manufacturing and product sustainment initiatives, as well as leading improvement projects to enhance efficiency and performance.
* Advancing hardware test methodologies and optimizing hardware designs for manufacturability.
* Supporting the development and deployment of test and manufacturing equipment platforms to enable operational excellence.


Location: Grand Rapids, MI

This position, which offers a blend of onsite and hybrid work arrangements, is based in Grand Rapids and necessitates a presence in the office for 2-3 days each week. An extensive corporate relocation package is also available for eligible candidates

Job Description

The Advanced Lead Product Engineer will drive process improvements and utilize data analysis to achieve and maintain production process capability and consistency.  Daily activities will include supporting hands-on debug of product and test equipment, leading root cause investigations, identifying and delivering corrective actions, and executing product or manufacturing equipment changes to support production KPIs.  This role will be dedicated to the program and will have an added focus on high volume production, requiring urgency in problem solving to maintain production cadence.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Working with manufacturing counterparts, improve the build and test processes using standard work methodology and instructions.

• Identify Key Process Indicators (KPIs) and Critical to Quality (CTQ) features to improve producibility and testability.

• Provide technical support to manufacturing including hands-on debug of product (unit and circuit card) and automated test systems.

• Perform and coordinate engineering investigations including development of Change Impact Assessments with internal stakeholders.

• Execute and lead product and test equipment design changes for obsolescence management, product improvement, and cost-out activities.

• Participate and/or facilitate in improvement projects (e.g. Product Work-up events, develop debug tools, develop guided troubleshooting aids, etc.).

• Operate as a liaison between internal stakeholders including manufacturing, quality, sourcing, and other engineering teams to solve issues.

• Present changes, engineering investigations, and corrective actions to external customers.

• Provide manufacturing lessons learned feedback into the design process.

• Coordinate product transition from initial design to manufacturing.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field from an accredited university or college.

• Minimum of 5 years professional experience.

• Experience with complex electronic assemblies and associated test and debug methods.

• Familiarity with circuit board design and manufacture.

• Experience with high volume electronics manufacturing.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and problem solve with urgency.

Eligibility Requirements:

• US Citizen: This role requires use of technical data subject to U.S. Government contract restrictions and this posting is only for U.S. Citizens.  GE will require proof of status prior to employment.

• Ability to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.

Desired Characteristics:

• Electrical design and analysis experience with integrated electronics and circuit card assemblies.

• Working knowledge of complex avionics systems and their components.

• Experience with high volume electronics production.

• Experience with automated manufacturing and test equipment.

• Experience with test system design and development for integrated electronics and circuit card assemblies.

• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems and deliver results.

• Familiarity with aerospace standards, materials, and manufacturing processes.

• Ability to lead cross-functional technical teams.

• Demonstrated application of problem solving and root cause corrective action tools and process.

• Self-starter who takes ownership of p