NPI Leader

GE Aerospace•Evendale, OH

About The Position

Lead the team responsible for industrializing new products, such as LM9000, and major design changes into manufacturing, ensuring safe, high-quality, and cost-effective production readiness. Oversee cross-functional NPI activities from early design through ramp-up, owning manufacturing process design, qualification, and transition to stable production. Lead NPI manufacturing workstreams from concept through production launch and represent operations in program forums. Serve as the primary manufacturing interface to Engineering, Program Management, Supply Chain, and Quality, identifying and managing risks to safety, quality, delivery, and cost and driving mitigation and escalation as needed. Develop manufacturing launch plans, including readiness reviews, milestones, and go/no-go criteria. Define routings and standard work, and ensure tooling, fixtures, equipment, and gauges are specified, procured, installed, and validated on time. Translate design intent into capable processes using PFMEA, control plans, and process capability studies. Coordinate first article assembly and testing, documenting results and resolving issues. Ensure safe assembly methods and define inspection checkpoints and error-proofing steps. Convert demand into TAKT targets, design routings and layouts to support flow at or better than TAKT, and lead improvement actions when cycle times do not meet targets. Develop costed manufacturing solutions and pursue cost-out opportunities through process optimization, yield improvement, and waste reduction. Lead pilot and first article builds, capture lessons learned, and update standard work and control plans. Support rate readiness and ramp by aligning capacity, staffing, and material availability with program rate curves. Train production teams and monitor ramp performance to drive stabilization to standard work. Maintain controlled manufacturing documentation, support configuration control and change management, and provide NPI readiness and Flight Deck metric updates to leadership and governance forums. The role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information, so employment is contingent on demonstrating U.S. Person status as a U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. citizen, asylee, or refugee. Candidates must also be legally authorized to work in the United States. Any offer is conditioned on successful completion of a drug screen, as applicable; employees may also be subject to random and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol testing. Relocation assistance is provided.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, or a high school diploma or GED with at least 4 years of experience in manufacturing.
At least 5 years of manufacturing experience.

Nice To Haves

Strong oral and written communication skills.
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
Demonstrated ability to lead programs or projects.
Experience in aerospace or other highly regulated industries.
Experience implementing or operating within a formal lean operating system or management system.
Background in NPI, industrialization, or greenfield or brownfield manufacturing projects.

Responsibilities

Lead NPI manufacturing workstreams from concept through production launch and represent operations in program forums.
Serve as the primary manufacturing interface to Engineering, Program Management, Supply Chain, and Quality.
Identify and manage risks to safety, quality, delivery, and cost; drive cross-functional mitigation and escalation.
Develop manufacturing launch plans with readiness reviews, milestones, and go/no-go criteria.
Define routings and standard work, including work instructions, visual controls, and tooling requirements.
Ensure tooling, fixturing, equipment, and gauges are specified, procured, installed, and validated on time.
Translate design intent into capable processes using PFMEA, control plans, and process capability studies.
Coordinate first article assembly and testing, document results, and resolve issues.
Ensure safe assembly methods, tooling, and handling of heavy or complex components.
Define in-process and final inspection checkpoints and error-proofing steps.
Convert demand into TAKT targets and design routings, work content, and line or cell layouts to support flow at or better than TAKT.
Monitor actual cycle times against TAKT and lead improvement actions involving methods, tooling, staffing, and line balance.
Develop costed manufacturing solutions and drive cost-out through process optimization, yield improvement, and waste reduction.
Lead pilot and first article builds, capture lessons learned, and update standard work and control plans.
Support rate readiness and ramp by aligning capacity, staffing, and material availability with program rate curves.
Train production teams on processes, documentation, and quality requirements and support certification where needed.
Monitor ramp performance, including yield, scrap, rework, cycle time, downtime, and safety events, and drive stabilization to standard work.
Ensure manufacturing documentation is complete and controlled, including routings, work instructions, tooling specifications, control plans, and visual aids.
Support configuration control and change management for product and process changes during NPI, assessing impact on SQDC.
Provide NPI manufacturing readiness and Flight Deck metric updates to leadership and governance forums.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
Access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace.
Employee Assistance Program with 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling, and referral services.
GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, including a 401(k) savings plan with company matching and company retirement contributions.
Access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants.
Tuition assistance.
Adoption assistance.
Paid parental leave.
Disability insurance.
Life insurance.
Paid time off for vacation or illness.
Relocation assistance.
Professional development opportunities.