Role SummaryThe Executive Quality Leader – Unison provides strategic and technical quality leadership across a global business with 9 manufacturing sites and 4,500+ employees. This role owns the Zero-Defect and Proactive Quality agenda for Unison, partnering with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost while elevating the customer experience.As a people leader of people leaders, this role leads a large, distributed quality organization (2+ direct reports, 250+ indirect), strengthening the Quality Management System, driving advanced quality tools and methods, and building a culture of structured problem solving and continuous improvement. The Executive Quality Leader will engage directly with customers and regulators, ensuring products and processes meet or exceed aerospace, regulatory, and GE Aerospace standards.This role is ideal for an experienced quality or operations executive with deep manufacturing and aerospace experience who thrives in a high-complexity environment and can lead through large-scale change and accelerated growth.Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Quality Leadership
- Provide strategic and technical quality leadership across 9 Unison manufacturing sites, ensuring alignment with GE Aerospace standards and customer requirements.
- Own and drive a Zero-Defect, Proactive Quality culture, embedding prevention, robust risk management, and structured problem solving in daily operations.
- Own key quality performance metrics (e.g., escapes, defects, FPY, COPQ, audit results), ensuring operational rigor and linkage to Safety, Delivery, and Cost.
Organization & People Leadership
- Lead a large global quality organization (people leader of people leaders), including site Quality Leaders, Quality Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams.
- Developing talent and succession across the Unison quality organization, coaching leaders and strengthening the future pipeline.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and accountability consistent with GE Aerospace Behaviors.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Programs, and Commercial teams to define and deliver critical quality improvement priorities.
- Drive Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and advanced quality tools across the product lifecycle, including NPI, industrialization, process modernization, and transfer of work.
- Support global manufacturing and supplier initiatives, including dual build, transfer of work, and capacity expansion.
Customer, Regulatory, and QMS Excellence
- Lead customer-facing quality initiatives, including problem resolution, improvement plans, and quality narratives for executive and customer reviews.
- Ensure strong regulatory and quality system compliance across all Unison sites, including audit readiness, execution, and closure of findings.
- Build and lead quality governance (policies, procedures, delegations), promoting standardization, simplification, and robust internal controls.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, or related technical field
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, or closely related disciplines
- Demonstrated experience as a people leader, including leading leaders and large, distributed teams
- Proven track record driving quality improvement and results in a complex manufacturing environment
- Ability to travel up to 15 (domestic and international, as required)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in aerospace or similarly regulated, high-complexity industries
- Strong knowledge of quality systems, regulatory requirements, and industry standards
- Demonstrated expertise in structured problem solving (e.g., 8D, A3, root cause analysis) and continuous improvement
- Practical experience leading APQP and quality planning across the full product lifecycle
- Experience with global manufacturing and supplier networks, including dual build, transfer of work, and capacity expansion
- Excellent communication skills and executive presence; ability to brief senior leadership and engage directly with customers and regulators
- Proven ability to build, develop, and retain high-performing teams in times of change and growth
Additional Information
Compensation Grade
EB
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: Yes
