Technology & Engineering Director

Job Description Summary

Provide unified leadership for Technology and Engineering to define and execute the technology roadmap for automation, robotics, digital manufacturing, and industrialisation across the Singapore Component Repair operations. Drive Smart Factory capabilities that materially improve SQDC and support strategic growth, while ensuring robust technical standards and effective, integrated Maintenance as an enabler.

Job Description

Company Overview:

Are you ready to see your career take flight? At GE Aerospace, we believe the world works better when it flies. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. We have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen.

Site Overview:

For more than 40 years, our advanced facilities in Singapore have led aerospace innovation across the Asia Pacific region. From automating processes to leveraging smart factory technologies, robotics, and additive manufacturing, GE Aerospace is shaping the future of aviation. Responsible for more than 60% of our global repair volume, our Singapore site is the largest site for engine component maintenance, repair and overhaul work. We can’t do this work without talented people like you.

Join us and be part of our journey to innovate and excel in the aerospace industry.

Role Overview:

This is a senior executive role leading senior managers across Technology and Engineering disciplines, including Special Processes, Automation & Robotics, Machining, Tooling, NPI/industrialisation, Digital Manufacturing, and integrated Maintenance. The role partners closely with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Digital Technology, EHS, and Program teams to deliver safe, reliable, and competitive repair operations.

1. Technology & Engineering Strategy and Leadership

• Set the technology vision: Define and lead the multi-year technology strategy for the Singapore Component Repair plants, aligning automation, robotics, and digital manufacturing with business growth, competitiveness, and customer needs.
• Unify technical functions: Lead Special Processes, Automation & Robotics, Machining, Tooling, and NPI under a cohesive strategy, standards framework, and talent model.
• Technical ownership: Ensure robust process capability, methods, and problem-solving that support quality, delivery, and cost objectives.

2. Smart Factory, Digitalisation, and AI

• Smart Factory roadmap: Own and execute a Smart Factory roadmap that covers automation and robotics deployment, MES/PLM/SCADA integration, data architecture, and connectivity for critical processes and value streams.
• Digital manufacturing & AI: Identify, prioritize, and industrialise high-value digital and AI/ML use cases (e.g., predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, process optimization, automated inspection) that measurably improve SQDC.
• Digital thread & twin: Advance digital thread and digital twin practices across the repair value stream, enabling connected machines, real-time performance visibility, and closed-loop quality.
• Data foundations: Ensure high-quality data capture, contextualisation, and governance to support analytics, dashboards, and data-driven decision-making.

3. Industrialisation and New Product Introduction

• End-to-end industrialisation: Lead New Product Introduction (NPI) and industrialisation of repair processes, including DFM/DFA, process development and validation, PPAP/FAI readiness, and rate readiness.
• Design collaboration: Partner with Design Engineering, Programs, and customers to influence repairability, manufacturability, and cost early in the lifecycle.
• Change control: Govern technical change (ECR/ECO) and configuration management to ensure safety, regulatory, and customer compliance while maintaining configuration integrity.

4. Technical Excellence and Special Processes

• Standards and methods: Establish and maintain standards, methods, work instructions, and process controls for special processes (e.g., heat treatment, coatings, welding) in line with applicable standards and customer requirements.
• Capability and qualification: Ensure robust process capability, qualification, and re-qualification of critical processes, including measurement systems and inspection methods.
• Problem-solving excellence: Sponsor and enforce disciplined root cause analysis and corrective actions for technical issues impacting SQDC.

5. Continuous Improvement, Productivity, and Capital

• Productivity delivery: Deliver annual productivity, yield, and scrap-reduction commitments through automation, process capability improvements, and design-to-cost initiatives.
• Technology & capital roadmap: Develop and execute technology and capability roadmaps, including capital investment plans, to support future workload, rates, and strategic programs.
• External partnerships: Build and manage relationships with key equipment suppliers, technology partners, and research institutions to accelerate innovation and industrialisation.

6. Governance, Safety, and Compliance

• Safety leadership: Embed safety-by-design, process safety, and EHS compliance into all technical decisions, particularly for new automation, robotics, and major process changes.
• Technical governance: Establish and lead technical review boards and forums for process approval, risk assessment, and major technology decisions.
• Measurement capability: Ensure robust Measurement System Analysis (MSA), Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R), and audit readiness for regulatory, customer, and internal requirements.

7. Maintenance Integration, Reliability, and Asset Management

• Integrated Maintenance & Engineering: Integrate Maintenance into a combined Maintenance & Engineering organization with clear technical ownership for critical assets and standards.
• Reliability focus: Implement reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), TPM, and disciplined CMMS practices to improve OEE, increase MTBF, reduce MTTR, and minimize unplanned downtime in line with technology and capacity plans.
• Asset lifecycle management: Lead asset strategy, including specification, qualification, lifecycle planning, and decommissioning, ensuring alignment with the technology roadmap and Smart Factory objectives.

8. Organization Effectiveness and Talent

• Org design: Assess current structures, interfaces, and spans and layers across Technology, Engineering, and Maintenance. Design and implement a phased transformation to clarify ownership, decision rights, and operating mechanisms.
• Talent development: Build deep technical and leadership bench strength in automation, robotics, digital manufacturing, industrialisation, and reliability engineering. Promote a culture of learning, standard work, and continuous improvement.
• Change leadership: Lead the cultural and organizational change required to adopt new technologies, digital tools, and new ways of working across the plants.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a visionary and execution-focused engineering leader with deep experience in aerospace manufacturing, repair industrialisation, automation, robotics, and digital manufacturing, coupled with a proven ability to lead large multi-disciplinary teams through transformation. They bring strong technical judgment, operational discipline, and people leadership to deliver measurable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and organizational capability across a complex repair environment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Electrical, Mechatronics, or related field); advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years in manufacturing/operations engineering within aerospace or closely related industries
• 8+ years leading multi-disciplinary engineering organizations, including responsibility for senior managers and cross-functional teams

Technical expertise:

• Proven track record in automation and robotics integration, from concept through industrialisation and scaling

• Experience with machining, tooling, and special processes relevant to component repair

• Strong background in NPI and industrialisation, process validation, and regulatory/customer compliance

• Demonstrated experience in digital manufacturing, including MES/SCADA/PLM, data systems, and analytics

• Solid understanding of maintenance and reliability engineering practices and systems as enablers of technology and capacity

Leadership attributes:

• Visionary technical leader who aligns technology and digital roadmaps with business strategy and competitiveness

• Data-driven decision-maker who balances innovation with operational discipline, risk management, and compliance

• Strong stakeholder management; able to influence across Operations, Digital Technology, Quality, Supply Chain, and external partners

• Proven people developer who builds high-performing teams, deep technical capability, and a culture of standard work and continuous improvement

• Uncompromising focus on safety, quality, and ethical standards

Preferred Qualifications

Technology and digitalisation impact:

• Automation/robotics deployment vs. roadmap (cells/lines implemented, volume through automated routes)

• Progress on digital maturity milestones (e.g., machine connectivity, MES/SCADA integration, usable data availability)

• Measurable SQDC improvements linked to digital/AI use cases (right-first-time, cycle time, inspection productivity)

Industrialisation and NPI performance:

• PPAP/FAI on-time and first-pass success for new and modified repair processes

• Process capability indices for critical characteristics post-industrialisation

• Ramp-to-rate achievement and stability vs. plan

Productivity and cost:

• Year-on-year cost productivity (e.g., conversion cost reduction, labour and overhead efficiency)

• Scrap and rework reduction vs. target

• Capital investment ROI vs. business case and timeline

Asset performance (as enabler):

• Improvement in OEE on critical assets and value streams

• Increased MTBF and reduced MTTR

• Reduction in unplanned downtime for key equipment

Organizational health:

• Critical technical roles filled and succession depth in automation, digital, and industrialisation

• Engagement and retention of key technical talent

• Adoption of standard work and closure of targeted skill gaps

Location and Travel

• Location: Primarily on-site at the Singapore Component Repair plants.
• Travel: Travel to vendors, partners, customers, and other sites as required.

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At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No