Lead Machining Process Engineer

Job Description SummaryJoin a team that turns next‑generation materials into flight‑ready hardware. As the Lead Machining Process Engineer for Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) components, you will combine hands‑on CNC machining, process ownership, and cross‑functional collaboration to deliver hardware that operates in some of the harshest environments in aerospace.
In this role, you are a key technical leader who ensures current and future programs hit their milestones and deliver on their commitments. You will work both independently and across diverse cross‑functional teams to develop, implement, and scale robust machining processes that enable reliable, high‑precision manufacturing of CMC components.
If you are excited by solving complex manufacturing challenges, pushing the limits of materials and machining technology, and seeing your work flying in the real world, this role is for you.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define and control production processes
  • Own CNC machining performance for CMC components: set up, operate, and maintain CNC machines to deliver high precision, repeatable production.
  • Select and optimize tooling, fixturing, and equipment tailored to CMC machining and advanced CNC operations.
  • Validate and translate design intent to the shop floor, ensuring that machining requirements for new products, tools, and equipment are clearly defined and reliably executed.
  • Partner closely with Manufacturing Engineers and shop floor teams to refine and continuously improve machining processes for capability, throughput, and yield.
• Technical expertise:
  • Develop and apply deep technical expertise in CNC programming, machine operation, tooling, and CMC machining techniques.
  • Use your hands-on experience and process knowledge to design and execute machining strategies that deliver high quality, tight tolerances, and robust manufacturability.
  • Stay current on emerging machining technologies, methods, and tooling that can improve performance in CMC manufacturing.
• Business integration:
  • Align machining work with critical business drivers: safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC).
  • Ensure CNC operations support program milestones, production ramp‑ups, and customer commitments.
  • Collaborate across manufacturing, engineering, quality, sourcing, and operations to ensure machining processes are fully integrated into the broader production system.
• Problem-solving and judgment:
  • Lead troubleshooting of complex machining issues, using structured problem‑solving, data analysis, and technical judgment to drive root cause and corrective action.
  • Proactively identify risks and improvement opportunities and translate them into actionable process changes.
  • Work closely with engineering, quality, and operations to make informed decisions that improve stability, throughput, and part quality.
• Team contribution and Leadership:
  • Operate as a high‑impact individual contributor with strong communication and collaboration skills, helping to build a culture of safety, learning, and continuous improvement.
  • Coach and mentor machinists and early‑career engineers, sharing best practices and providing informal technical guidance.
  • For early leadership responsibilities, support hiring, onboarding, and developing talent within the CNC machining team, helping to shape a high‑performing, engaged shop floor environment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university + a minimum of 3 years manufacturing experience (or a high school diploma/GED with a minimum of 4 years manufacturing experience)
• Due to the nature of the duties of this position, this role requires the individual to obtain and maintain US Government DoD Security Clearance

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. ​

GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

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)).

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