GE Aerospace
Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Machining Process Specialist
Indianapolis · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
CAMLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- This is a senior technical leadership role balancing executing the work and leading supporting ME's.
- GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a "Sponsor").
- Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion.
Responsibilities
- Lead development, prove-out, validation, and optimization of milling processes for structural components and mounting hardware
- Establish robust, repeatable manufacturing methods that support Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost
- Drive process standardization across part families, including workholding strategy, tool management, in-process control, and process monitoring
- Lead technical maturation of manufacturing methods from concept through production readiness
- Apply machining simulation to validate toolpaths, reduce process risk, improve collision avoidance, and support efficient process development
- Develop tooling control strategies including laser-based tool measurement / broken-tool detection and tool offset control
- Troubleshoot machining issues using structured root cause analysis and implement durable corrective actions
- Partner with operations, quality, tooling, and other cross-functional teams to stabilize and improve manufacturing performance
- Document process standards, validation results, lessons learned, and best practices to support reuse and knowledge transfer
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and develop less experienced engineers
Requirements
- Experience implementing standardized approaches for:
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot machining processes in a structured, data-driven manner
- Experience with multi-axis milling environments
- Strong understanding of machining process fundamentals, including tool engagement, stability, chatter risk, thermal effects, and machine/process variation
- Experience establishing scalable standards across machines, part families, and manufacturing cells
- Little to no travel required
Nice to have
- Define and standardize workholding approaches, including zero-point fixturing, to improve setup repeatability, changeover efficiency, and positional consistency
- Improve process capability through structured approaches to tool life management, tool performance tracking, and process monitoring
- Provide active technical leadership, mentoring, and development for other Manufacturing Engineers
- 10+ years of manufacturing process development experience in machining or advanced manufacturing
- Strong experience with Siemens CNC controllers, Teamcenter, NX CAM/SIM
- Experience machining a wide range of aerospace materials, including aluminum, steel, titanium, HRSA, and Inconel
- Strong understanding of workholding, fixture design principles, cutting tool application, and process capability
- Preferred Experience
Compensation
- GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation.
Benefits
- Ability to translate technical learning into standard work, training, and reusable process standards
Equal opportunity
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a "Sponsor").
- Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion.
- GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.
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