About the role
Job Description Summary
The Program Manager is accountable for end-to-end ownership of customer hardware and associated programs in a shop environment. This role leads cross-functional coordination to ensure safety, quality, delivery, and cost expectations are met, while serving as a technical and quality resource for the team. The Program Manager will manage customer communication, schedules, and execution plans to ensure hardware moves through the shop on time and to standard. Key Responsibilities
· Own the customer program, including all communication,
meetings, schedules, and status updates for internal and
external customers Coordinate across a cross-functional team
(manu facturing, quality, engineering, sourcing, planning, etc.)
in the shop to meet customer schedule, cost, yield, and
quality expectations.
· Oversee hardware flow through the shop, ensuring all required
processes are followed, documentation is current, and operations
are executed in the correct order.
· Ensure timely deliveries by proactively managing constraints,
escalating risks, and driving problem solving to keep work on plan.
· Maintain and update process owners with current drawings,
routings, work instructions, technical plans, and associated files
required to execute customer hardware.
· Own project budgets within area of responsibility, including
forecasting needs, tracking actuals, and identifying improvement
opportunities for productivity and cost.
· Drive completion of technical plans, including coordination of
required reviews, sign-offs, and configuration control.
· Serve as a best-practice and quality resource in the discipline,
with awareness of latest technical developments in own area and
how they impact program execution.
· Apply in-depth knowledge of shop and program management best
practices, understanding how own area integrates with others and
how GE Aerospace differentiates itself versus competition.
· Use sound judgment and data-driven analysis to make decisions
and solve moderately complex problems in operational/product
management, manufacturing, technology, or engineering.
· Take new perspectives on existing solutions, leveraging techn…
