Senior Staff Technical Product Manager

Job title:

Senior Staff Technical Product Manager

Company

GE Aerospace

Job description

Job Description Summary As the Sr. Staff Technical Product Manager, you will be at the helm of managing our state-of-the-art Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) solutions across our component and assembly shops. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate closely with GE Aerospace shops, business stakeholders, and blueprint owners to identify and implement critical enhancements, manage EVM/CMMC requirements, and oversee product upgrades and patching. You will be the linchpin in relationship management, bridging the gap between shops, functional teams, implementation squads, and support operations. Your primary focus will be ensuring seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a diverse array of stakeholders, including Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners, and Developers across Digital Technology and our Capacity Functional Team. This is an unparalleled opportunity to make a significant impact on our manufacturing processes, driving efficiency and innovation. Join us and be a key player in propelling GE Aerospace to new heights of technological excellence.Job DescriptionRole Responsibilities

• Demonstrate superior experience and knowledge in MES products and the manufacturing industry, aiding in the replacement of legacy systems.
• Interact with customers and stakeholders for requirements gathering, fine-tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Own and manage MES solutions deployed across GE sites in Europe, ensuring technical product ownership and service management.
• Possess a deep understanding of the technology stack and its impact on the final product.
• Act as a bridge between implementation teams, stakeholders, shops, and support teams through go-live, hyper-care, and transition to operations.
• Rationalize decisions and their downstream implications, continuously reflecting on successes and failures to improve performance.
• Coordinate and prioritize small changes, enhancements, and product upgrades/patching with implementation and engineering teams.
• Manage CMDB/ServiceNow product owner responsibilities, including cybersecurity assessments and data classification.
• Support L2 and L3 operational activities related to CMMC, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, EVM, and other infrastructure support activities.
• Demonstrate business acumen, stay updated on industry trends, and be the internal expert on the product and competitive landscape.
• Conduct customer and stakeholder interviews on product vitality and operational stability.
• Engage frequently (50% of the time) with the development team, facilitating discussions, providing clarification, and contributing to design activities and decisions.
• Demonstrate expert communication and influencing skills to ensure alignment between customers, product managers, and engineering teams.
• Anticipate downstream consequences and effectively tailor strategies to support positive outcomes.

Education Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university is highly desirable, and/or comprehensive professional experience of digital transformation within manufacturing.
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.

Desired Skills

• Deep domain depth in smart factory and manufacturing business processes.
• Experience implementing MES and production optimizations products preferred but not mandatory.
• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Familiarity with versatile implementation options.
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.
• Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.

Business Acumen

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices.
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment.

Personal Attributes:

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

Flexible WorkingGE supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance.Total RewardAt GE Aviation we understand the importance of Total Reward. Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible.As a new joiner to GE we are pleased to be able to offer you the following as default in your benefit fund, which you then can tailor to meet your individual needs;Performance based annual bonusNon-contributory PensionLife AssuranceGroup income protectionPrivate medical coverHoliday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible option to buy or sellUK Security ClearanceUK Security Clearance (SC) is required and must be maintained for this role. Candidates who do not meet the minimum requirements for UK Security Clearance are not eligible for this role on grounds of national security. If UK Security Clearance is not obtained, any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security.Right to WorkApplications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, under the applicable UK immigration rules as may be in place from time to time, it may be that candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available to take up the post. For further information please visit theAdditional InformationRelocation Assistance Provided: No

Expected salary

Location

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Job date

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:01:43 GMT

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