Executive FLIGHT DECK Leader – Technology & Engineering

Job Description SummaryThe 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 alignment of engineering resources to strategic priorities. 

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• A minimum of 8 years of experience leading Manufacturing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Services, Digital, Commercial or P&L
• Proven experience in successfully leading teams while driving change and transformation in engineering, product development, or technology organizations. 
• Knowledge and experience applying lean principles in engineering, design, and technical/transactional environments (e.g., design workflows, requirements management, test planning, configuration management).
• Must be willing to travel up to 50% based on business needs.

Desired Experience & Characteristics:

• Culture & Behaviors: Models GE Behaviors – Respect for People, Continuous Improvement, Customer Driven – and demonstrates a strong safety and quality mindset in all engineering decision-making.
• Lean & Technical Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to solve complex engineering and systems problems through lean and FLIGHT DECK methodologies (e.g., A3 thinking, root cause analysis, standard work for design, visual management of technical risk). 
• Hands-on Improvement: Hands-on experience driving lean or process improvement initiatives within technology, engineering, or product development value streams. 
• Results Orientation: Results-oriented with a focus on delivering sustainable engineering outcomes such as improved product safety, reduced design defects, faster learning cycles, and on-time certification. 
• Business & Technical Acumen: Ability to accurately assess key technical and business metrics from a senior leader perspective and leverage lean to drive improvement across engineering programs and portfolios. 
• Influencing & Credibility: Strong influencing skills; highly credible with senior engineers, Chief Engineers, program leaders, and cross-functional partners. Capable of informing, convincing, and persuading others to drive sustainable results using lean principles. 
• Collaboration: Collaborative team orientation – knows when to lead, when to follow, and how to integrate diverse technical views into a cohesive improvement plan. 
• Customer Focus & Urgency: Customer-focused with a high sense of urgency around product safety, quality, reliability, and on-time delivery of engineering milestones. 
• Communication: Effective communicator across all levels – from design engineers and lab technicians to senior executives and customers – able to translate lean concepts into engineering-relevant language and examples. 

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. 

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General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.​

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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