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Lead Quality Engineer

GE Aerospace

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Location
Indianapolis, IN
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Job overview

The Lead Quality Engineer manages and improves compliance with internal and external standards and regulations, including product quality review for manufacturing processes. The role conducts quality systems audits and risk assessments, coordinates special process audits and corrective-action investigations, and supports nonconformance dispositions. It requires at least three years in Quality or Production, with a bachelor's degree or an alternative high school diploma/GED plus four years in Manufacturing.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Quality Systems AuditingRisk AssessmentSpecial Process AuditingCorrective Action InvestigationNonconformance DispositionOral CommunicationWritten CommunicationProblem AnalysisProblem ResolutionProgram PlanningProgram ExecutionProject ManagementMachining Processes

Qualifications

Bachelor's or HS Diploma/GED+4 Years Manufacturing3+ Years Quality or ProductionU.S. Person Status

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance
Parental Leave
Paid Time Off
Relocation Assistance

Full job description

Job Description Summary

Managing, ensuring and improving capabilities to comply with internal and external standards and regulations. Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others. Includes product quality review associated with manufacturing processes.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Ensuring compliance to international management systems standards such as AS9100, ISO 9001, etc.

  • Performs Quality systems audits and risk assessments.

  • Coordinates special process audits and acts as a Liaison with external auditors.

  • Utilizes in-depth knowledge of a discipline and analytical thinking to execute policy/strategy. Basic knowledge of related job disciplines.

  • Coordinates Cause and Corrective Action Investigations

  • Supports nonconformance dispositions and MRB submittals

  • Uses some judgment and has some ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address more complicated manufacturing processes with technical variety and/or interdependent production cycles. Uses technical experience and analytical thinking. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own teams to arrive at decisions.

  • Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements. Explains information; developing skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field. Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues.

Minimum Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 4 years in Manufacturing).

  • Minimum of 3 years in Quality, or Production.

Desired Characteristics

  • Strong oral and written communication skills.

  • Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.

  • Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.

  • Established project management skills.

  • Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn

  • Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively

  • Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed

  • Experience in machining processes

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.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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: Yes

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 3,013 open Quality Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Indiana median$90–148K/yr21 salary ranges
  • US median$40–48/hr171 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 61 open Quality Engineer jobs in Indiana and 3,013 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Indiana
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Quality Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,462 postings).
Education
1,756 of the 3,013 open Quality Engineer jobs (58%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 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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