Lead Thermal Processing Operations Engineer

Job Description Summary Manage multiple thermal processes and the associated equipment related to heat treatment of additively produced metal and ceramic components while ensuring safety, quality, and reliability of processes, equipment, and working environment. Must be comfortable managing multiple type of sintering, stress relief, heat treatments, and materials. Operation will fall under both development and controlled special process for production hardware under ISO9001 & AS9100:D quality certifications. This role leads the implementation of standard work, preventative maintenance schedules, thermal surveys, calibration, and control of furnaces. This role support process development, application troubleshooting, and customer programs.

This role will function with some autonomy but will be guided by established policies, specifications, or collaborative review processes. This person will work with manufacturing/design, operations, quality, materials, and customers / customer relationship managers to help identify risks and execute business deliverables related to hardware and manufacturing development.

Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensures safe operations through EHS polices and coaching.
• Ensures adherence and maintenance of quality policies and procedures.
• Maintains equipment by leveraging preventative maintenance, surveying, and calibration.
• Develops standard work and work instructions
• Develops standard run reports
• Reviews and approves thermal run proposals
• Assesses technical risks and lead risk reduction activities
• Works cross-functionally to develop and implement solutions and processes.
• Leads and implements continuous improvement projects related to furnaces.
• Participates in general shop Lean and Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Uses some level of judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters but with guidance. Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks. Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.
• A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor with proven interpersonal skills or an early people leader who can hire and develop talent. Provides informal guidance to new team members

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 6 years of experience in Job Family Group(s)/Function(s)).

Desired Characteristics

• 2+ years thermal processing experience
• 2+ manufacturing process experience including process development or improvement
• Experience with heat transfer (focus on convection)
• Knowledge of vacuum systems, piping, pump systems, and heat exchangers
• Experience working in quality environments such as ISO9001 or NADCAP
• 1+ years additive manufacturing experience
• Experience in new product or new technology introduction processes
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.

Note:

To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to access to export-controlled technology. GE will require proof of status prior to employment.

Additional Information

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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 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).

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