Repair Senior Consultant Operation Manager

BR2735 GE Aviation Systems North America LLC - Dubai; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

GE Aerospace in Dubai seeks an experienced professional to support regional external MRO and repair consultancy, ensuring alignment with business commitments and customer requirements. You will guide repair feasibility, industrialisation, and process improvements across multiple workstreams, collaborating with operations, quality, design, sourcing, and program teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in MRO with deep knowledge of aircraft engine component repair processes and strong leadership,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent knowledge with at least 5 years in MRO environment.
• Strong interpersonal, coaching and leadership skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the regional external MRO and repair consultancy team.
• Provide oversight support for EEMC MRO expansion and Repair processes.
• Provide SME on aircraft engine component repair processes to external customers.
• Consult on repair feasibility, industrialisation strategies, and risk mitigation for new/existing repair schemes.
• Lead project planning and ensure task execution outcomes.
• Support industrialisation of new/modified repairs from concept to production.
• Share best practices related to routings, control plans, and equipment specifications.

Skills

MRO development

Aircraft engine component repair

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Description Summary

To work in region as part of a customer's MRO Support team providing guidance and sharing best practices across multiple workstreams ensuring the skill base, process & procedures, repair strategy and growth are aligned with the current business demands and can be scaled up as the organization grows. This role focus on ensuring execution to business commitments, customer requirements, and company operational standards and focuses on contract management, sharing best practices to build repair capabilities, design repair facility and ensuring consistency in shop repair consultancy contract execution.

About GE Aerospace

Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas, we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight!

Role Overview

• Support the regional external MRO and repair consultancy team.
• Provide oversight support for EEMC MRO expansion and Repair processes.
• Provide subject matter expertise on aircraft engine component repair processes to external customers.
• Consult on repair feasibility and strategic priorities, industrialisation strategies, and risk mitigation for new and existing repair schemes.
• Lead project planning, task execution outcome.
• Support the industrialisation of new and modified repairs from concept through qualification and into stable production.
• Share best practices related to routings, control plans, and equipment/tooling specifications to ensure process capability and repeatability.
• Share recommendation for validation/qualification plans (e.g., first article, capability studies) for new repair processes.
• Analyse process performance data to identify variation, defects, and bottlenecks; recommend and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Drive structured problem-solving (e.g., 8D, root cause analysis) for repair-related issues.
• Ensure repair processes comply with relevant specifications, regulations, and customer requirements.
• Maintain awareness of industry best practices and benchmark solutions to inform repair strategy.
• Partner with operations, quality, design engineering, sourcing, and program.
• Maintain GE business metrics providing regular updates to MRO Program Leadership team, project core team & senior steering committee.
• Implement a standardized communication process and metrics pack.
• Assist in the development, reporting and analysis of first-time yield in the repair processes.
• Actively support & encourage the use of Lean Six Sigma and change management tools & techniques.

The Ideal Candidate

• MRO development green field expertise.
• Expertise on aircraft engine component repair processes.
• Project management experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent knowledge and atleast 5 years experience in MRO environment MRO Process knowledge.
• Strong interpersonal, coaching and leadership skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

GE 90 & GP7200 Engine knowledge

Strong interpersonal and leadership skills

Strong mentoring skills

Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems

Additional Information

• Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate. Additional Information Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes At GE Aerospace, we invent the future of flight, lift people up, and bring them home safely. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. At GE Aerospace, respect for people is core to our culture and commitment to FLIGHT DECK, our proprietary lean operating model. We attract, develop, and retain industry-leading talent from all backgrounds and cultivate communities where people are respected and empowered to reach their fullest potential. For the people of GE Aerospace, their work isn't just a job. It's their passion and purpose. We work and win as one team, accountable to each other and our customers, and we are always finding a better way to climb higher together. We were meant to fly.