Senior Inspection Special Process Engineer

Job Description Summary
Provide engineering activities and support that relate to improvements in inspection and introduction of new repairs and technologies to improve delivery, repair yield (scrap), safety, and quality

Job Description
Company Overview
GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) is a global leader in aerospace propulsion, services, and integrated systems. Currently, it has approximately 44,000 in-service commercial aircraft engines worldwide. With a century-long history of innovation and profound industry expertise, GE Aerospace is committed to inventing the future of flight, lifting people up, and bringing them home safely.

Site Overview
For 45 years in China, GE Aerospace has committed to developing and investing in China's aviation industry with reliable, efficient, sustainable, and outstanding products and services. GE Aerospace and its joint venture CFM have served more than 60 airline customers in the Greater China Region, with over 7700 engines in service and nearly 5000 engines on order. We are devoted to the market's quality growth propelled by technological innovation and digitalization. Together with our partners, we are shaping a sustainable future of flight that helps the industry reach its carbon-neutral goal for the benefit of us all tomorrow.

Role Overview
Provide engineering activities and support that relate to improvements in inspection and introduction of new repairs and technologies to improve delivery, repair yield (scrap), safety, and quality.

The Ideal Candidate

• Senior Inspection Special Process Engineer associated with inspection technologies; areas of interest are improving incoming inspections (Gate 1) with a goal to expand to all other inspection processes.
• Apply advanced technologies to improve yield and productivity in aircraft engine component repair; areas of interest include Automation & Robotics.
• Technical expert for measurement and instrumentations in inspection processes providing shop support to drive business improvements in safety, quality, delivery, cost, scrap reduction, etc.
• Institutionalize LEAN practices to improve Turnaround Time (TAT).
• Coordinate with global peers to leverage best practices, communicate lessons learned, and drive improvements to achieve yield entitlement and best in class cost of ownership.
• Industrialize new inspection technology equipment and processes including defining resource needs, Engine Shop Manual interpretation, Manufacturing process flow, and digital/IT infrastructure enhancements.
• Interpret engineering Engine Shop Manual (ESM) and Standard Practice Manual (SPM) requirements and institute best practices, and measuring for surface, sub-surface anomalies and dimensional characteristics. Conditions include, but are not limited to corrosion, pits, nicks, dents, scratches, and linear indications.
• Develop and implement robust processes that consistently meet delivery and cost targets.

Required Qualification

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and 5+ years of aircraft engine maintenance and repair shop experiences.
• Fluent in Chinese and English.

Preferred Qualification

• Comprehensive knowledge of underlying repair shop inspection principles, approaches, and initiatives.
• Good communications skills with the ability to communicate at a variety of levels from senior leadership to shop personnel.
• Familiarity with non-destructive testing (NDT) such as structured light inspection, Eddy Current, FPI, MPI, Infra-red inspection, conventional and digital X-Ray, XRF technology and Ultrasonic testing.
• Understanding of shop operations and manufacturing processes.
• Familiar with optical and dimensional inspection equipment and processes.
• Familiarity and ability to improve fielded hardware cleaning practices (process flow and practices associated with chemical cleaning, high pressure waterjet, and grit blast).
• Familiar with GD&T, GR&R, and SPC.
• Familiar with IT and digital processes (data flow and management).
• Ability to support the design and adoption of automation and inspection technologies.
• Solid project management skills and demonstrated history of effective horizontal leadership.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to calculate and present business cases in support of change.
• Strong decision-making skills and the ability to identify problems and propose solutions.

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.
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