Job Description Summary
GE Aerospace is undertaking a major, business-wide transformation as it relates to our packaging portfolio and the emerging regulatory landscape, most notably the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and California SB 54. These requirements will impact packaging design, materials, recyclability, reporting, and extended producer responsibility across all products, sites, and channels.
We are seeking a Program Manager for Strategic Packaging with strong program and project management capability, deep packaging design and materials expertise, and continuous improvement experience. This role will lead the global packaging transformation program end-to-end, providing the technical depth needed to guide and challenge packaging solutions so they are compliant, safe, operationally efficient, and cost-effective.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the global Strategic Packaging Program. Define scope, roadmap, milestones, dependencies, and governance. Run steering forums, manage risks/issues, and ensure alignment across businesses and regions.
• Translate global regulatory requirements into a coherent packaging transformation strategy and implementation plan.
• In partnership with product/quality teams, guide the development of compliant packaging designs and global standards. Ensure new specifications (materials, structures, recyclability criteria, test protocols) protect product integrity, safety, and customer experience while meeting regulatory thresholds.
• Coordinate design, validation, and rollout of packaging changes across manufacturing, MRO, spares distribution, and logistics. Collaborate with suppliers to implement new packaging standards, support trials and qualifications, and resolve technical and operational issues.
• Drive continuous improvementin packaging: material reduction, cube and freight optimization, standardization of packaging families, increased use of reusables and recyclable content, and reduction of total landed cost.
• Lead change management for the packaging transformation. Assess impacts by product, site, and role; develop communication and training plans; coordinate training content with packaging and operations experts; and ensure new packaging standards are understood, adopted, and sustained at sites and with suppliers.
• Define and track key program KPIs, including compliance status by market/product, packaging material mix and recyclability, EPR and fee impacts, damage/quality metrics, and cost performance. Provide regular updates to senior leadership and support external reporting needs as required.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university inPackaging Engineering, Mechanical/Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, Supply Chain, or related field; advanced degree or PMP/Prince2 a plus (or a high school diploma/GED with a minimum of 4 years packaging, product engineering, supply chain/logistics, or operations experience)
• Minimum 5 years of experiencein program/project management or transformation roles.
• Demonstrated experience withpackaging design and validation(materials, structural design, cushioning, testing) in a manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Familiarity with packaging-relatedregulatory requirements(preferably EU packaging/PPWR, EPR schemes, and/or US state-level packaging regulations).
• Proven ability to leadcross-functional, multi-site or multi-region programs, managing scope, schedule, risks, and stakeholders.
• Proficiency with project tools (e.g., MS Project/Smartsheet), data/analytics (Excel, SQL/BI a plus), and process mapping.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and vendor negotiation skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience inaerospace, automotive, industrial, or similarly high-value and regulated industries.
• Prior involvement in programs addressingsustainability, circularity, or extended producer responsibility.
• Familiarity with logistics operations and systems (ERP, WMS, TMS) and how packaging affects storage, handling, and transport.
• Exposure tocontinuous improvement/leanmethods applied to packaging, logistics, or manufacturing.

Competencies

• Strategic planning and execution
• Risk management and issue resolution
• Technical credibility
• Systems integration and data readiness
• Compliance- and risk-aware
• Customer- and quality-focused
• Data-driven and improvement-oriented
• Clear, concise communication

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 Sponsors 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)).

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