Staff Application Operations Engineer

GE Renewable Energy Power and Aviation
3 days ago
Posted date3 days ago
N/A
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EngineeringJob category
EngineeringJob Description Summary
This role is primarily responsible for advancing and maintaining inspection technologies-including assisted defect recognition, additive process monitoring, and remote read-within critical additive manufacturing applications at the Auburn, AL facility. Ensuring compliance, security, and operational integrity, this position requires a strong technical foundation and a minimum of four years of experience in industrial inspection and data-driven process optimization.
The ideal candidate will drive innovation by implementing emerging inspection technologies, enhancing defect detection capabilities, and integrating real-time monitoring solutions. Effective stakeholder engagement is crucial, requiring expertise in fostering adoption, coaching teams, and collaborating across organizational levels. Strategic problem-solving and decision-making in complex, ambiguous environments are essential, along with the ability to provide expert consultation to optimize business processes.
Strong communication, analytical thinking, and leadership skills are vital for success, complemented by a proactive approach to risk management and continuous improvement.
Job Description
Education Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 4 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 7 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 9 years of professional experience
Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience
Eligibility Requirement:
-Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
Additional Job Description
Additional Information
Compensation Grade
LPB1
This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not U.S. lawful permanent residents, U.S. Citizens, or have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), employment will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities 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.
GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
This role is primarily responsible for advancing and maintaining inspection technologies-including assisted defect recognition, additive process monitoring, and remote read-within critical additive manufacturing applications at the Auburn, AL facility. Ensuring compliance, security, and operational integrity, this position requires a strong technical foundation and a minimum of four years of experience in industrial inspection and data-driven process optimization.
The ideal candidate will drive innovation by implementing emerging inspection technologies, enhancing defect detection capabilities, and integrating real-time monitoring solutions. Effective stakeholder engagement is crucial, requiring expertise in fostering adoption, coaching teams, and collaborating across organizational levels. Strategic problem-solving and decision-making in complex, ambiguous environments are essential, along with the ability to provide expert consultation to optimize business processes.
Strong communication, analytical thinking, and leadership skills are vital for success, complemented by a proactive approach to risk management and continuous improvement.
Job Description
- Responsible for supporting and maintaining critical additive manufacturing inspection applications/technologies and related data processing platforms and services at the Auburn, AL facility. Also responsible for application and platform SLA's against operational commitments. Responsible for application security & compliance, ensuring application & data integrity. Responsible for a large or multiple components of a domain, product, program, or a pod.
- Expected minimum experience to demonstrate competency of 4 years.
- Key Programs - Supports NPI/NTI program needs and development cycles to include remote read, assisted defect recognition, and additive process monitoring development cycles, operational cadences, and ongoing maintenance.
- Change Agent - Proactively learns new tools and integrates new methods to drive improved outcomes. Identifies and assesses new technologies that can add value and capability to GE. Builds rapport with the team and gets buy-in for ideas. Drives stakeholder understanding and acceptance of new ideas in their business. Participates in change programs by planning implementation activities with other change champions. Implements monitoring and feedback systems. Solicits ideas for improving primary business processes.
- Collaboration - Establishes & communicates team members' roles in relation to their function and data. Shares knowledge, power and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill. Coordinates role responsibilities with that of others to achieve mutual goals. Encourages groups to work together to resolve problems. Proactively coaches and/or mentors others to improve their contribution to the team. Fosters relationship building between team members and those outside the team. Works with others to achieve goals without regard to band/title. Identifies gaps in roles on teams, and is recognized for growing and distributing talent pools across the organization.
- Comfort in Ambiguity - Identifies when additional information is needed from customer/manager/stakeholder and asks relevant questions to obtain it. Delivers solution(s) where additional information may not be needed or available, while clearly stating any underlying assumptions. Communicates status. Evaluates data sets to determine possible value or steps to create value.
- Communication - Adjusts information (e.g. level of complexity) and story to align with audience. Produces functional area information in sufficient detail for cross-functional teams to utilize, using presentation and storytelling concepts. Informs stakeholders of customer issues, identifies potential problems or conflicts and resolves them when necessary. Explains the story of the rationale and benefit of their ideas. Uses relevant and appropriate presentation techniques. Responds to questions and dissent in a constructive manner. Acknowledges limitations of one's own knowledge.
- Consulting - Provides options and counsel. Drives dialogues that produce new perspectives and substantial innovation, enhancements and analysis of consequences. Consults on projects to fit systems or infrastructure, and project goals to their function, and vice versa. Provides risk-assessed options in relation to process enhancement and professional expertise. Consults on data or data infrastructure development projects and identifies when necessary to modify the solution.
- Curiosity/Creativity - Connects ideas and solutions from a broad array of sources (e.g., what other businesses are doing, brainstorming with others). Pilots new ideas and processes that have not been utilized before.
- Decision Making & Risk Management - Analyzes and interprets business strategy, policies, values, complex data patterns and relationships to make decisions regardless of incomplete and conflicting information and uncertain consequences. Makes benchmarked and researched recommendations with contingency plans in place for potential adverse consequences; takes responsibility for consequences of decision/risk. Lobbies business partners and subject matter experts for consensus in taking action that sets direction in at least one critical business function.
- Influence - Ensures group understanding of issues and presents rationale to affect outcomes. Resolves conflicting opinions through consensus. Uses appropriate facilitation techniques to gain agreement or move others to action.
- Problem Solving - Identifies future roadblocks and promotes data-based problem solving. Assesses & prioritizes problems in relation to organizational goals. Coordinates team's work and performance with broader organizational objectives and manages conflicts between them. Advises others in how to solve difficult problems.
Education Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 4 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 7 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 9 years of professional experience
Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience
Eligibility Requirement:
-Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
Additional Job Description
Additional Information
Compensation Grade
LPB1
This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not U.S. lawful permanent residents, U.S. Citizens, or have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), employment will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities 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.
GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
JOB SUMMARY
Staff Application Operations Engineer

GE Renewable Energy Power and Aviation
Auburn
3 days ago
N/A
Full-time
Staff Application Operations Engineer