Job Description Summary

The Executive FLIGHT DECK Leader – Technology & Engineering will partner with the senior leadership team of the Technology & Engineering organization to advance the implementation of FLIGHT DECK – GE Aerospace’s proprietary lean operating model – across engineering and design value streams. This role is pivotal in driving a shift in operating mindset and ensuring lean principles are effectively applied to Future of Flight Product Safety, Product Quality, Integrated Design & Build, Systems Engineering, Product Configuration, and Research & Technology. The leader will enable both strategic and operational plans by embedding lean thinking into how we design, validate, and release products and technologies for our customers.
This is a people leader role with approximately 7 to 12 direct reports and indirectly 50.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Coach and develop at all levels to build their lean skills and become proficient lean practitioners (e.g., requirements flow down, design reviews, verification/validation). Guide leaders and teams in problem solving, operating rhythms, daily management, genba and hoshin kanri for technology and engineering objectives. 
• Drive lean-based practices that improve product safety and design quality, including robust requirement management, design-for-safety, and design-for-quality methods. Partner with various stakeholders to establish standard work and visual management for safety risk identification, mitigation, and learning from events across programs.
• Lead the application of FLIGHT DECK principles to integrated design and build workflows, from concept through certification and entry into service. Enable value-stream thinking across design engineering, manufacturing engineering, supply chain engineering, and services engineering to reduce design iteration, late design changes, and defects discovered in build and test.
• Enhance capabilities in systems engineering, including architecture development, requirements decomposition, interface management, and system validation/verification, using lean principles to simplify, standardize, and error-proof engineering processes. Promote model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and other digital enablers aligned with FLIGHT DECK.
• Deploy lean methods to product configuration management, ensuring clear and robust control of baselines, configurations, and changes across the product lifecycle. Partner with Configuration Management, Program, and Supply Chain teams to streamline change processes, eliminate rework, and improve data integrity and traceability.
• Apply FLIGHT DECK to Research value streams to improve throughput, learning cycles, and impact on product roadmaps. Enable lean experimentation, learning cycles, and portfolio prioritization to ensure R&T investments are tightly linked to business and product strategy.
• Enhance capabilities from tactical deployment and application of lean in engineering activities to strategic transformation affecting key engineering and technology value streams (e.g., new engine architectures, new materials, advanced systems). Facilitate the integration of FLIGHT DECK into long-range technology and capability roadmaps. 
• Act as a leader, facilitator, educator, advocate, and accountability partner to the Technology & Engineering leadership team, driving understanding and adoption of FLIGHT DECK and lean methodologies in engineering and design decisions. 
• Partner closely with Product Lines, Programs, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Services, Digital, and Quality to prioritize and improve critical cross-functional engineering-to-production processes. Ensure tight engineering integration with downstream users of technical data (factories, MRO, customers).
• Recruit, build, and develop a team of FLIGHT DECK / lean leaders focused on engineering and technology value streams. Provide mentoring and coaching to accelerate their impact and succession readiness. 
• Capture and disseminate best practices in lean engineering, systems engineering, model-based development, and integrated design & build across the Technology & Engineering community and broader GE Aerospace segments. 
• Oversee and drive the kaizen process for engineering and technology processes (e.g., design release flow, test planning, certification evidence generation, requirements management). Enable continuous improvement that measurably improves Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost in engineering outcomes. 
• Lead the operating review and hoshin kanri processes for Technology & Engineering, continuously assessing and improving these mechanisms to drive better technical outcomes, timely risk escalation, and