What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Integration Specialist position at GE Aerospace?
**Job Description Summary:**
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Systems Engineer to lead our technology maturation efforts. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in guiding our technology strategy and bridging the gap between invention and product.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create maturation strategies for GE Aerospace Research technologies to bridge the gap between laboratory bench tests and product-ready status.
- Collaborate with researchers, customers, and partners to identify applications and funding streams for the latest technology at GE Aerospace Research.
- Use knowledge of aerospace applications, certification, and business case to identify key system requirements for new inventions.
- Lead risk analysis, Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA), and risk mitigation plans.
- Project leadership of a multidisciplinary team throughout the testing process, including coordination of projects with multi-disciplinary requirements spanning multiple Research and Engineering organizations.
- Proposal creation to secure funding from internal and external customers.
- Program planning with schedule, budget, and personnel.
- Communication to stakeholders including GE Aerospace Research & Engineering leadership, government customers, and airframers.
- Mentor GE Aerospace Research personnel on system-level impacts on their technology.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited university or college.
- Minimum of 10 years total experience in aerospace engineering.
- Exposure to range of aerospace applications.
- Requirements generation.
- Technology maturation, TRL3 – TRL6.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in system engineering or similar role.
- Design integration leadership.
- Deconstruction of complex technical challenges into discreet actions.
- System-level trade studies.
- Risk assessment and mitigation planning.
- Value quantification for technology or project.
- Program cost and schedule estimation.
- Excellent written and oral communication.
- Able to distill complex concepts into key points to enable leadership decisions.
- Experienced presenting to internal senior leadership and external partners/customers.
- Team coordination spanning in-person, domestic remote, and global members.
- Application of Lean principles in design process.
- Continual improvement.
- Iterative design process.
- Root Cause Analysis & Failure Modes and Effects Analysis.
