Staff Engineer – Supplier Integration Leader – Next Gen Products

Job Description Summary
As Supplier Integration Leader you will lead integration across Design Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain to improve supplier performance, hardware flow, and product quality for Next Generation Products (NGP). The Supplier Integration Leader drives design-informed quality improvements, strengthens alignment between engineering and supplier process development, and helps resolve critical hardware issues to enable delivery. This person serves as a technical leader, cross-functional integrator, and mentor, helping the team reduce defects, improve first-time yield, and accelerate execution across the module.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities
Lead cross-functional efforts across design, quality, supply chain, and product line teams to improve supplier performance, and enable hardware delivery
Drive proactive quality strategies for critical hardware and suppliers through design improvements, process problem solving, and APQP execution
Partner with Supply Chain and Supplier Quality Engineering to eliminate nonconformances through root cause analysis and corrective action
Mentor and coach engineers on supplier collaboration, defect reduction, and APQP implementation
Influence decisions and build alignment across functions and organizational levels in a highly matrixed environment
Travel as needed to support suppliers, and partner teams on site

Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Engineering from an accredited university
Minimum of 5 years of experience in mechanical design, inclusive of experience delivering hardware as part of a design, manufacturing, or quality engineering organization
This role requires the successful candidate to maintain a US Government Security Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. Citizenship. Preference will be given to candidates who currently hold US Government Security Clearance.
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.

Desired Characteristics
Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering from an accredited university
Possess a current US Government Security Clearance.
Experience supporting advanced propulsion or next-generation aerospace programs
Experience mentoring or coaching engineers
Strong communication, collaboration, and influencing skills
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
Experience leading programs, projects, or cross-functional initiatives
Project management and execution skills
Deep understanding of the GE Aerospace Quality Management System
Experience across all phases of APQP
Team-first mindset with strong ownership, continuous improvement focus, and ability to build trust across stakeholders
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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)).