Senior Manufacturing Engineering Staff Manager

Job Description Summary

The Senior Engineering Manager – Composites Manufacturing provides technical, people, and strategic leadership for composite structures manufacturing within GE Aerospace. This role leads a team of manufacturing engineers responsible for safe, compliant, and rate‑capable production of aerospace composite hardware across development, industrialization, and sustained operations. This position requires deep hands‑on expertise in aerospace composite processes, tooling configuration control, and GD&T, combined with the ability to drive enterprise‑scale strategy, continuous improvement, and talent development in a large, regulated manufacturing environment.

• Lead composite manufacturing engineering activities with an uncompromising focus on Safety and Quality while delivering on cost, delivery, and rate commitments.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for critical manufacturing, tooling, and quality issues impacting certified aerospace hardware.
• Ensure compliance with AS9100, NADCAP, FAA regulations, internal GE specifications, and product certification requirements.
• Champion GE Aerospace FLIGHT DECK operating principles to drive standard work, problem solving, and continuous improvement.

• Provide technical authority for composite manufacturing processes including hand layup, AFP/ATL, resin infusion, RTM, autoclave curing, compression molding, and bonded assemblies.
• Lead process development, validation, and production readiness activities for new and existing aerospace programs.
• Review and approve manufacturing plans, process specifications, work instructions, and engineering changes.
• Lead structured root cause investigations (PFMEA, RCCA) for non‑conformances, escapes, yield losses, and tooling‑related issues.

• Own the composite tooling engineering strategy, including molds, cure tooling, trim and drill fixtures, assembly fixtures, and automated manufacturing systems.
• Ensure strict tooling configuration control, including tool definition, revision management, change incorporation, and alignment with product configuration baselines.
• Lead tooling qualification, first article inspection (FAI), and ongoing tool health and capability assessments.
• Apply and enforce GD&T (ASME Y14.5) principles to composite parts and tooling to ensure dimensional integrity, interchangeability, and producibility at rate.
• Partner with design engineering to influence datum structures, tolerance schemes, and tool design to balance performance, manufacturability, and lifecycle cost.

• Lead manufacturing engineering ownership of P&E strategy to enable current production and future growth in composite manufacturing.
• Define equipment capability requirements, capacity models, and rate‑readiness plans aligned with program demand forecasts.
• Partner with Operations, Facilities, and Finance to develop capital investment cases for new equipment, tooling, automation, and facility upgrades.
• Provide technical oversight for P&E selection, specification, procurement, installation, commissioning, and qualification.
• Ensure new and existing equipment meets safety, quality, and regulatory requirements and is fully integrated into standard work.
• Drive equipment reliability, uptime, and lifecycle management through data‑driven improvements and obsolescence planning.
• Support long‑term site and footprint planning to enable production ramp, new product introduction, and cost competitiveness.

• Lead and develop a multi‑level manufacturing engineering organization, including senior engineers, sub‑section leader, and tooling manager.
• Establish clear technical standards, governance, and decision‑making frameworks across composite manufacturing.
• Drive hiring, succession planning, and capability development aligned with long‑term GE Aerospace production and growth strategies.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, respect, and continuous improvement consistent with GE Aerospace values.