Job Description Summary

Lead day-to-day program operations to ensure safe, high-quality, on-time execution. This role drives alignment across teams, removes barriers, manages cost and delivery performance, and promotes continuous improvement to meet customer and business commitments. A successful candidate for the role will build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and respect, ensuring teams have the clarity, resources, and support needed to meet customer and company commitments.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead weekly program operations reviews to track key milestones, cross-functional dependencies, and execution risks, enabling timely decisions and on-schedule delivery.
• Manage budget planning and execution across multiple funding sources, ensuring accurate forecasting, cost control, and alignment with business priorities.
• Drive Earned Value Management (EVM) performance by monitoring cost, schedule, and execution metrics, identifying variances early, and leading corrective actions.
• Support continuous improvement through standard work, visual management, operating rhythms, and structured problem solving to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Remove operational barriers by coordinating resolution of facility, infrastructure, equipment, and workflow issues that affect execution.
• Partner with finance, program leadership, supply chain, engineering, and site teams to ensure resources, investments, and recovery plans are in place to meet commitments.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement through clear expectations, performance tracking, and proactive risk escalation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited university or college with minimum 6 years of professional experience
• 4 years of relevant experience
• Due to the nature of the duties of this position, this role requires the individual to obtain and maintain US Government Security Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active “Advanced programs” access
• 10 years of relevant experience
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Proven ability to lead across cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority.
• Strong interpersonal, customer-facing, verbal, and written communication skills.

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)).

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). Employees may also be subject to random and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol testing.

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes