Electronics Design Engineering Manager

Job Description Summary The Electronics Design Engineering Manager demonstrates accountability for functional, business, and broad company objectives. In this role you will integrate and develop engineering practices that meet business needs across the organization, manage complex issues within functional areas of expertise, manage and develop teams, be involved in long-term planning, and contribute to the overall business strategy. In this role you will be managing a team of hardware systems and electronics design engineers and directing this team across multiple projects.

Job Description Essential Responsibilities

The Electronic Engineering Leader is a functional manager to a hardware engineering team engaged in the design, development and qualification of safety critical electronic product solutions within the Power Distribution and Controls engineering organization. You will develop a high performing engineering team, drive goal setting, coaching, and training by providing leadership and technical direction within your team. Your responsibilities will be to:

• Provide functional leadership and technical direction to your team - ensure adherence to regulatory, company and functional processes and procedures.
• Manage resource supply and demand for your team, including recruitment of permanent and temporary staff, working with GE global sites and outsource of work packages to suppliers.
• Define roles and responsibilities for your team optimizing the team structure to maximize the efficiency of the team.
• Assure technical quality, timely and on-budget completion of work with effective use of resources and responsiveness to customer / program needs.
• Establish priorities for staff in your team that align with company and divisional objectives.
• Promote professional growth through timely performance feedback and ongoing coaching. Conduct appraisals and participate in salary planning.
• Ensure collaboration with cross-functional teams and facilitate communication of technical and business information between groups.
• Guide the team to embrace an innovative approach to problem solving and design implementation.
• Drive a Lean focus into your team.
• Work with the New Business group to plan and cost proposals for new projects.
• Ensure company compliance training requirements are implemented within your team

Qualifications / Requirements

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  Relevant degree or similar qualification
• Demonstrable experience in a project leadership or new product introduction role across the full life cycle and ideally within a safety critical environment
• Strong knowledge of electronic product design and development processes
• Significant functional and line management experience
• Able to strategically prioritize work with strong oral and written communication skills sharing critical information and speaking with candor
• Strong interpersonal, leadership and team-building skills
• Good problem solver and able to challenge existing processes, whilst contributing in a collaborative manner.
  

Desired Characteristics

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  Understanding of regulatory requirements for aerospace complex hardware design
• An understanding of DO-254 as applicable to Custom Logic design and verification
• Working knowledge of regulatory and safety requirements for safety critical products (ideally gained in an avionics or similar environment)
• Formal Management training with effective team building or project management ability
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Lean or six sigma knowledge

Flexible Working

GE supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance.

Total Reward

At GE Aviation we understand the importance of Total Reward. Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible.

As a new joiner to GE we are pleased to be able to offer you the following as default in your benefit fund, which you then can tailor to meet your individual needs;

• Non-contributory Pension
• Life Assurance
• Group income protection
• Private medical cover
• Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible option to buy or sell

Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdr