Responsible for coaching a team of inspectors to ensure products and processes meet all safety, regulatory, and customer quality requirements. This role provides day to day leadership, coaching, and performance management for a group of quality inspectors, while driving continuous improvement in inspection effectiveness, defect prevention, and first-time yield.Job Description
Role Overview:
- Provide day-to-day leadership for a team of quality inspectors, including work direction, prioritization, and resource balancing across shifts and value streams.
- Foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning; encourage ideas from inspectors to improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
- Drive KPI performance, deliver performance reviews, coaching, and development planning; recognize strong performance and address performance gaps in a timely, fair manner.
- Ensure inspectors are properly trained, certified, and qualified for assigned tasks; maintain and track required certifications and recurring training.
- Maintain strong, visible presence on the floor; remove obstacles for the inspection team; promote a culture of safety, quality, and respect.
- Oversee incoming, in-process, and final inspection activities to ensure compliance with drawings, technical data, specifications, and procedures.
- Support and, where authorized, approve disposition decisions on nonconforming product in collaboration with Quality Engineering and Manufacturing.
- Lead or support investigations of nonconformances, escapes, and customer findings; ensure robust root cause analysis and effective corrective and preventive actions
- Monitor and analyze quality metrics (e.g., defects, rework, escapes, first-pass yield); use data to identify trends and drive improvement actions.
- Ensure inspectors follow standard work, control plans, and inspection instructions; help create and update work instructions and checklists as needed.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma/GED with at least 6 years of experience in Manufacturing, and Quality).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Experienced People Leader. Strong understanding of AS9100, Customer Quality Requirements, PC-108, Inspection methods
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)).
Additional InformationGE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off offerings include paid vacation, holidays, sick time, personal days, and flexible work arrangements, with permissive PTO noted for some salaried roles. Family support includes generous parental leave and adoption assistance.
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