Senior Consultant - Repair Operations Manager

About the role

GE Aerospace is looking for a Repair Senior Consultant / Operation Manager in Dubai to join a regional MRO support team. The role provides guidance and shares best practices across workstreams so that skill base, processes, repair strategy and growth align with business needs and can scale as the organisation grows. It focuses on executing business commitments, customer requirements and company standards, covering contract management, building repair capabilities, designing repair facilities and ensuring consistent execution of repair consultancy contracts.

Key responsibilities

• Support the regional external MRO and repair consultancy team and provide oversight for EEMC MRO expansion and repair processes.
• Act as subject matter expert on aircraft engine component repair for external customers, consulting on feasibility, industrialisation strategies and risk mitigation for new and existing repair schemes.
• Lead project planning and task execution, and support the industrialisation of new and modified repairs from concept through qualification to stable production.
• Share best practices on routings, control plans and equipment/tooling specifications, and recommend validation and qualification plans such as first article and capability studies.
• Analyse process performance data to find variation, defects and bottlenecks, and recommend and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Drive structured problem solving (e.g. 8D, root cause analysis) and ensure compliance with specifications, regulations and customer requirements.
• Partner with operations, quality, design engineering, sourcing and program teams, and maintain GE business metrics with regular updates to the MRO Program Leadership team, project core team and steering committee.
• Implement a standardised communication process and metrics pack, help develop first-time yield reporting, and promote Lean Six Sigma and change management tools.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent knowledge, with at least 5 years of experience in an MRO environment.
• MRO development green-field expertise and knowledge of aircraft engine component repair processes.
• Project management experience.
• Strong interpersonal, coaching and leadership skills, and strong oral and written communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of GE 90 and GP7200 engines.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse and resolve problems.

What we offer

• Relocation assistance provided.