Job Description Summary

Working at GE Aerospace means bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team dedicated to advancing aerospace for future generations. We value your ideas and are eager to listen. Join us and watch your ideas take flight!

Engineering is at the heart of our operations, and we seek talented, innovative engineers to help design and develop products for today, tomorrow, and the future. If you are a dreamer, doer, and inventor who wants your voice to be heard and your ideas to take flight, this is the opportunity for you.

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


This position will be responsible for leading the Product Engineering group within the Sustaining and Test organization. This role has overall accountability for team execution for all Product engineering duties for all Avionics North America products. This role provides technical leadership and assistance to the Product Engineering team to ensure they deliver on cost, quality, schedule, and technical goals. The Product Engineering team is responsible for all aspects of engineering support for products once they transition to production and in-service phases. The team is responsible for hands-on debug of electronics products and test equipment, leading root cause and corrective action investigations and executing product or test equipment changes for obsolescence and cost improvements. The Product Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading or supporting factory goals such as On-time Delivery, and First Time Yield along with strategic initiatives related to data analytics, lean, kaizen and diagnostics.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight and guidance to the Product engineers to establish effective factory support operating rhythms.

• Lead the team in talent acquisition, talent management, training, mentoring, and coaching activities.

• Generate and execute succession planning for key roles within the Product Engineering group.

• Coordination and guidance between Product Engineering group and development teams during product development.

• Ensure Design for Manufacture and Design for Test principles are applied during development projects.

• Coordination and guidance between Product Engineering group and other factory support teams during production and in-service phases.

• Leadership of high visibility/criticality safety and quality investigations.

• Coordination for proposing and executing strategic life cycle product and test improvements.

• Identify and support incorporation of manufacturing lessons learned into new designs.

• Identify and execute factory improvement projects (lean, kaizen, etc.).

• Provides accurate and timely status reporting to Sustaining and Test, product area and factory leadership.

• Responsible for adherence to GE processes and procedures.

• Enable team success through the deployment of Flight Deck (daily management, at-point problem solving, etc.).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college with at least 8 years of experience in Engineering or technical discipline.

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

• 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.

Desired Characteristics:

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or other related discipline

• Demonstrated experience as a direct people and familiarity with creating staffing strategies, establishing succession plans, goal setting, and managing budgets

• Experience in electronics, electro-mechanical or test design and development

• Knowledge of processor-based electronics hardware and associated test and diagnostic techniques

• Familiarity with Design for Manufacturing/Design for Test principles

• Familiarity with electronics-based production manufacturing processes

• Continuous improvement mindset

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Strong interp