Senior Engineer – Safety Management System Specialist

About GE Aerospace:

Are you ready to see your future take flight? At GE Aerospace, we are advancing aviation technologies for today and tomorrow. Your work will contribute to the production of advanced jet engines, components, and integrated systems that power commercial and military aircraft. You’ll be part of a team that embraces your drive, your curiosity, and your unique ideas and perspectives. Most importantly, you’ll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world!

Role Overview:

This Senior Engineer – Safety Management System (SMS) Specialist role will be focused on supporting GE Aerospace’s enterprise-wide efforts to implement a common SMS framework. Specifically, this role will focus on representing the needs of the Avionics and Power product areas with regards to SMS policy development, training, assurance, and risk management. This will require close, cross-functional interaction with leadership across the global Safety, Quality, and Engineering organizations. This role is available remotely.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the theory, design, development, practical implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the GE Aerospace SMS to support safety methodologies and techniques for engines, services, systems, equipment, and devices.
• Coordinate and manage Enterprise-wide communications related to creating a positive safety culture.
• Integrate with the Flight Safety Teams to measure safety risk management (SRM) mitigation strategies and ensure objectives throughout the Enterprise are met.
• Execute processes to identify, evaluate, assess, and mitigate safety risks inherent to the product design (production and maintenance) to an acceptable level.
• Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) guidance for safety policies, procedures, safety risk assessments, hazard evaluations, risk correction/control, monitoring, safety assurance processes, training, and safety promotion across the Business in coordination with global GE Aerospace business activities and priorities.
• Interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve SMS performance, products, processes, or services. Stay informed of industry trends that may inform work.
• Use high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems in areas of operational, product management, manufacturing, technology, services, or engineering. Assess the quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders. Offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and construct and provide recommendations. Use multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at decisions.
• Effectively communicate and provide recommendations through the analysis, preparation, and presentation of technical data to internal and external GE Aerospace customers using reports, records, and letters.
• Travel up to 25%

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the aviation/aerospace industry

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Systems Engineering
• 10+ years of experience as a Safety Engineer within the aviation/aerospace industry
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Proven ability to analyze data to identify process improvements
• Demonstrated ability to promote and implement change within a business
• Demonstrated influencing skills
• Demonstrated ability to provide mentoring and/or formal training in Safety Engineering to engineers at all levels of experience
• Ability to successfully facilitate multiple efforts or projects to meet project deliverables
• Demonstrated ability to effectively present technical data to executive leadership
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated competency in using standard business software and tools

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.