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GE Aerospace Quality - 12 Month Placement

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About GE Aerospace
Are you ready to see your future take flight? At GE Aerospace, we are advancing aviation technologies for today and tomorrow. Your work will contribute to the production of advanced jet engines, components, and integrated systems that power commercial and military aircraft. You’ll be part of a team that embraces your drive, curiosity, and unique ideas and perspectives. Most importantly, you’ll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world!
Roles and Responsibilities
In the 12-month Quality Placement, you'll gain hands-on experience across various aspects of quality, including product and process design, issue resolution, and risk management.
Responsibilities will vary depending on the location and role, as each site has unique projects, production processes, and priorities. You could be involved in investigating quality issues, auditing products and suppliers, reviewing materials, analysing data or driving process improvements.
Supplier Quality (Cheltenham) - Identify improvement opportunities for the team, which will improve efficiency and productivity through already identified improvement projects and help identify new opportunities for improvement. In this role, you will have the opportunity to take on responsibility for managing a small portfolio of suppliers from a supplier quality perspective to gain experience in supplier management in a business environment.
Product Quality Placement (Caledonian) - Support the business in delivering defect-free aerospace engines to customers by participating in quality investigations, driving product safety risk reduction, and providing day-to-day quality support to operations. You will also contribute to proactive quality activities such as PFMEA, reduce quality escapes through improved defect detection and elimination, and engage in continuous improvement of the Quality Management System.
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Location - This opportunity is offered in our Caledonian (Prestwick, Scotland) and Cheltenham sites. During the process, we will ask you to share your location and role preferences.
Qualifications / Requirements
- Currently studying a Business/Data Analytics or Engineering/Mechanical/Aeromechanical degree or related Bachelor’s or integrated Master’s degree.
- Keen interest in Quality/Product Quality/Supplier Quality.
- On course to achieve a 2:1 degree or above.
- To be in your penultimate year of study and returning to education post placement.
Desired Characteristics
- Able to roll up your sleeves and get involved in projects.
- Organised & able to work towards deadlines.
- Inspired and curious to learn.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to take ownership of projects.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Able to work as part of a team.
Additional Information
A placement at GE Aerospace is an opportunity to learn while doing. You'll work with business leaders in an atmosphere that will develop you, while making an immediate impact. This placement role is a pipeline to our Operations Management Leadership Programme (OMLP), based across many of our UK sites. Towards the end of the placement year, we will open graduate applications for our current placement students with an aim to secure a role before the end of their placement year. Meaning, you can head back into your final year at university with a graduate job offer in hand. All you need to do is secure a 2:1 degree or above!
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Benefits
At GE Aerospace we understand the importance of Total Reward. Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice, and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible. As a new joiner to GE, we are pleased to offer you the following as default in your benefit fund, which you can tailor to meet your individual needs:


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- Non-contributory Pension
- Life Assurance
- Group income protection
- Private medical cover
- Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible options to buy or sell
Recruitment Process
You will be required to submit an initial CV application. After this, the stages include a video interview, testing, and MS Teams online interview. Our recruitment team will be in touch to keep you updated at every stage of the process. Please note our applications will close on Saturday 31st October but may close earlier depending on application volumes. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Please only submit one application. If in the future you are deemed suitable for other opportunities, we will automatically consider you for these too.
Security Clearance
Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. In the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security.
Right to Work
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, sponsorship is not available for our Early Careers opportunities.
Whether we are manufacturing components for our engines, driving innovation in fuel and noise reduction, or unlocking new opportunities to grow and deliver more productivity, our GE Aerospace teams are dedicated and making a global impact.
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