General Electric Company

Unison Quality Leader

General Electric Company$120K — $150K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations, or related technical field
  • At least 10 years of experience in Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, or related disciplines
  • Experience as a people leader, including managing leaders and large teams
  • Proven success in driving quality improvements in complex manufacturing settings
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% as needed

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic quality leadership across 9 manufacturing sites to meet GE Aerospace standards
  • Drive a Zero-Defect Proactive Quality culture with risk management and structured problem solving
  • Monitor key quality performance metrics and ensure alignment with operational goals
  • Lead a global quality organization, including coaching and developing future leaders
  • Encourage a culture of continuous improvement and accountability across the quality organization
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize and deliver quality improvement efforts
  • Lead customer-facing quality initiatives and ensure regulatory compliance across all sites

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance provided
  • Opportunities for coaching and career development
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams
  • Involvement in advanced quality initiatives
  • Challenging role in a high-complexity environment
Full Job Description
Job Description Summary
Role Summary

The 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


Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

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GE Healthcare provides medical technology, intelligent devices, and care solutions. They offer medical imaging, information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies. GE Healthcare's mission is to improve patient care and outcomes by providing innovative healthcare solutions. Their technologies are used in hospitals, clinics, research institutions, and pharmaceutical companies worldwide to diagnose and treat various medical conditions.

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