Lead Manufacturing Specialist 1 - Production Quality

Job Description SummaryManaging, ensuring and improving capabilities to comply with external standards and regulations. Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Maintain, update, and improve the Quality Management System documentation, including quality manuals, procedures, work instructions, and forms.
• Understand and translate applicable regulatory, customer, and industry standards into QMS requirements.
• Define and track quality and compliance metrics (e.g., defects, audit findings, on-time CAPA closure, customer complaints).
• Lead the preparation, maintenance, and surveillance for ISO certifications (for example, ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 as applicable).
• Coordinate Management Review meetings: prepare inputs, track outputs, and ensure actions are closed.
• Provide regular status reports to leadership on QMS performance, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop an annual audit plan; lead and perform internal audits across functions; train and coach internal auditors.
• Serve as main point of contact for certification bodies, customers, and regulatory auditors. Coordinate logistics, evidence, and responses.
• Record, investigate, and track nonconformities from audits, customer feedback, and internal findings.
• Lead root cause analysis, ensure effective corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), and verify effectiveness.
• Support controlled change to processes and documentation to maintain compliance and traceability.
• Conduct assessments and audits to gauge compliance with applicable regulatory, customer, and quality system compliance.
• Partner with support staff and work teams to identify high risk areas and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Create, revise, and participate in quality system document updates.
• Identify, drive and partner with the teams to implement projects that improve overall production quality and throughput.
• Contribute to the success of product quality team.
• Advise cross functional team on alternative approaches to Engineering activities, when appropriate.
• Ensure quality records are maintained and assure retention compliance in accordance to regulatory and customer requirements.
• Interface with, and provide support to, regulatory authorities, customer representatives, and supplier representatives.
• Review technical documentation with a view to quality and compliance requirements.
• Use LEAN methodologies to drive regulatory compliance, optimize quality systems that support field action, improve product quality and reliability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university (or a high school diploma/GED with a minimum of 4 years quality compliance experience) + minimum of 3 years quality compliance experience

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed 
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

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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