
Senior Compliance Specialist - Investigator
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Job overview
The Senior Compliance Specialist – Investigator leads internal investigations into alleged violations of law or GE Aerospace policy. The role manages cases from complaint assessment and investigative planning through interviews, research, briefings, corrective-action recommendations, and reporting. It works with Legal, Compliance, HR, and other stakeholders, while applying relevant legal and policy requirements and providing guidance on changes.
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Job Description Summary
The Senior Compliance Specialist – Investigator supports the team responsible for developing and executing the overall strategy for internal compliance investigations. In this role, the Compliance Investigator leads investigations involving a wide range of alleged violations of law or GE Aerospace policy.
Working closely with stakeholders across Legal, Compliance, HR, and other functions, the investigator handles concerns raised through the open reporting system and conducts investigations in a thorough, fair, and objective manner. This individual must be a self-starter with the ability to manage a large and varied caseload simultaneously, work independently with minimal supervision, and maintain strong attention to detail.
The role also requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to collaborate effectively within a team and engage confidently with senior business and functional leaders across the organization.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Lead and conduct independent investigations
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Carry out prompt, thorough, and objective investigations into alleged violations of law or company policy. Cases may involve any of GE Aerospace’s Spirit & Letter policies. For example, matters may concern complex questions involving respectful workplace, finance, conflict of interest, quality, sourcing, EHS, information technology and security, intellectual property, improper payments, competition law, and more
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Review and assess complaints and allegations and be able to develop and manage investigate plans and strategies
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Conduct concern raiser, witness, and subject interviews
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Conduct investigative research: including review and analyze all reliable and relevant information (i.e. emails, data files, invoices) including performing forensic analysis and reviewing GE Aerospace policies & procedures
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Provide oral briefings to senior leadership and functional owners on cases, and identify appropriate corrective actions
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Draft reports to ensure investigations are clearly and properly documented
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Maintain client relationships in the face of conflicting demands or directions and provide evidence-based conclusion and recommendation on sound diagnosis and information
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Know and understand all applicable legal and policy requirements pertaining to the conduct of investigations including in areas involving employee interviews, data privacy, labor and employment requirements, and more; monitor changes in such laws and policies and provide guidance to colleagues with respect to such changes
Required Minimum Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 8 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 10 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 12 years of professional experience
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Minimum 6 years of professional experience in conducting workplace investigations
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Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience
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Eligibility Requirement: Legal authorization to work in the US is required.
Desired Characteristics:
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Law degree, postgraduate degree in business or another relevant field, or equivalent experience in audit or quality
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At least 7 years of experience in Compliance, Law, Audit, Quality, Human Resources, or a related field
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Strong analytical and evaluative skills
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to think clearly and respond effectively under pressure, balance multiple competing interests, and share lessons learned with teammates
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Proven ability to prepare, present, and discuss findings and recommendations with senior leaders, and to produce clear, concise, and compelling reports
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Demonstrated problem-solving ability and sound judgment
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Fluency in English required; additional language skills are a plus
The base pay range for this position is $155,000 - $206,000. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on November 20th, 2026.
GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.
GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
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Additional Information
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) . 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. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). Employees may also be subject to random and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol testing.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity 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.
How this job compares
Set against the 597 open Investigator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$155–206K/yr
- Washington, D.C. median$111–159K/yr20 salary ranges
- US median$71–107K/yr305 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $181K, is 35% above the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($134K) — in the top quarter of Investigator salary ranges in Washington, D.C..
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 26 open Investigator jobs in Washington, D.C. and 597 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington, D.C.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — more than three in four Investigator postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 394 postings).
- Education
- 186 of the 597 open Investigator jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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