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Job Description SummaryAt Dowty Propellers, a GE Aerospace Company, you'll join a growing business with career development opportunities by helping ensure the safety and reliability of critical propulsion systems that keep aircraft flying every day. You'll join a global aerospace leader with a strong safety and quality culture, proven lean practices, and a commitment to continuous improvement. We offer the opportunity to make a direct impact on flight safety in a highly regulated environment, while developing your career through access to GE Aerospace's training, expertise, and broader career paths. In Sterling, you'll work in a close knit MRO team with the backing, stability, and benefits of a world class aerospace organization.
Dowty Propellers, a GE Aerospace Company, is seeking a Site Quality & Product Safety (SMS) Leader for our FAA Part 145 approved MRO facility in Sterling, Virginia. Reporting to the Global Quality Compliance & SMS Leader, this role is responsible for leading the site's management systems to ensure the highest levels of product quality, safety, and regulatory compliance for propeller maintenance, repair, and overhaul operations. The role is the site focal for product safety and airworthiness and plays a key part in driving a strong culture of quality, safety, and continuous improvement.Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in leading a Management System (SMS/QMS)to maintain compliance withFAA Part 145andAS9100D/AS9110Cstandards.
• Own audit readinessand host internal, customer, regulatory, and thirdparty audits; drive timely closure of findings.
• Manage approvals and certifications, including FAA and customer approvals, document control, and configuration management.
• Act as the site focal for product safety and airworthiness, ensuring safety is embedded in all MRO processes.
• Monitor and report key quality and product safety metrics, and drive structured problemsolving and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead investigations of quality escapes and safety events, including root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
• Lead and develop management system maturity, fostering a strong culture of quality, safety, and continuous improvement at the site.
• Support site daily management using GE Aerospace Flight Deck

• Regulatory and quality mindsetwith strong attention to detail and documentation rigor.
• Structured problem solver, comfortable using data and quality tools to identify and address risks and trends.
• Influential leader and communicator, able to work across functions and at all levels of the organization.
• High integrity and courage, willing to stop work or escalate issues when safety or compliance is at risk.
• Customerfocused, with a strong sense of responsibility for the safety and reliability of products in service.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university and a minimum of 3 years of Engineering, Aviation Maintenance, Quality, or related technical field; or equivalent aerospace/MRO experience OR; a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 7 years of Engineering, Aviation Maintenance, Quality, or related technical field; or equivalent aerospace/MROexperience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant experience inaviation maintenance or aerospace manufacturing/MRO, preferably in anFAA regulated environment.
• Provenquality management experience(audits, nonconformance management, CAPA).
• Working knowledge ofFAA Part 145regulations andAS9100D/AS9110Cstandards.
• Proficiency withquality tools and methods(e.g., root cause analysis, FMEA, risk assessment).
• ASQ or similarprofessional certifications(e.g., CQE, CQM/OE) orLead Auditorqualification (AS9100/AS9110).
• Priorleadership experiencein quality, product safety, or regulatory compliance.
• Experience withpropeller systems or rotating componentsand their repair/overhaul.
• Familiarity withGE AerospaceorDowty Propellersprocesses and digital quality systems.

The base pay range for this position is $102,000 to $136,000 per year. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/commission based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on July 8th, 2026

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 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.