Senior Chemical Process Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description SummaryChemical Process Manufacturing Engineer with the responsibility to provide special process and chemical process support in the Asian region. Drive quality across Chemical Process supply chain, including quality plan implementation. Support suppliers through qualification processes. Own supplier results, drive improvements utilizing supplier scorecards. Own supplier audits, ensuring compliance, and driving improvement plans where needed. In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the business. Has experience and expertise to solve problems affecting both short term and long-term business goals.

Impacts the team's ability to achieve service, quality and timeliness of objectives. The role is subject to operating policy objectives. There is moderate autonomy within the role. High levels of operational judgment are required to achieve outcomes required.Job Description Job Description

Company Overview

Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas, we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight

Site Overview

• Bangalore, India

Established in 2000, the John F. Welch Technology Center (JFWTC) in Bengaluru is GE Aerospace's multidisciplinary research and engineering center. Pushing the boundaries of innovation every day, engineers and scientists at JFWTC have contributed to hundreds of aviation patents, pioneering breakthroughs in engine technologies, advanced materials, and additive manufacturing.

• Pune, India

Established in 2015, GE Aerospace's Multi-modal Manufacturing Facility (MMF) in Pune plays a crucial role in manufacturing key aerospace components, supporting not only India's defense and commercial sectors but also global aviation supply chains. Our relationships with Indian suppliers, combined with our world-class local facilities and global reach, continue to shape India's aerospace ecosystem.

Role Overview

• Drive Supplier Quality Assurance and Development, including supplier qualifications, action plans, and performance monitoring.
• Assist key suppliers in achieving industrial standards of excellence.
• Become a certified expert (Certifying Agent) in Chemical Processes such as cleaning, stripping, etching, plating, anodize, paint, and DFL.
• Document technical data for assigned projects in alignment with engineering policies and procedures.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance First Time Yield and delivery performance.
• Collaborate with Design and Materials Engineers to improve manufacturability and producibility.
• Conduct supplier audits, identify gaps in quality systems, and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Solve problems using technical expertise, analytic thinking, and collaboration across teams.
• Requires specialized knowledge within the chemical process function. Partner with suppliers in developing high performing chemical processes.
• Interprets simple internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may inform work.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Candidate will have a strong technical background in the Chemical Processing space, with experience setting up chemical processing lines, managing their operation, and solving problems related to quality and production issues on those lines. In this role, the candidate will need to exhibit good priority management, with the ability to independently move projects forward to completion. Ideal candidate should have technical degree with at least 5 years' experience and demonstrated background in working with multiple stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• This role requires 5 years of advanced experience in the Chemical Processing space, with previous experience serving as a process expert in some of the following disciplines: Chemical Cleaning, Chemical Etching, Chemical Stripping, Plating, Anodizing, Paint, and DFL.
• Knowledge level is comparable to a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college with additional experience working closely managing and problem solving the previously mentioned disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant Experience as Process Engineer / Process Owner over Chemical Cleaning, Chemical Etching, Chemical Stripping, Plating, Anodizing, Paint, and DFL processes.
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
• Familiarity with Nadcap System and Audit requirements for Chemical Processing.
• Advanced degree in Material Science, Metallurgical, or Chemical Engineering preferred.
• Ability to travel 25% - 50% for audits, conferences, or problem-solving activities.

Desirable Qualification

• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn

• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively

• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed 

• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative

• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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