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Program Manager – Cooking Products Job in Louisville 40225, Kentucky US

Business GE Consumer & Industrial Business Segment Consumer & Industrial About Us GE Appliance and Lighting spans the globe as an industry leader for more than a century and has been committed to producing innovative products that change the way people live.

That spirit continues to flourish as our growing Appliance and Lighting teams takes on some of the worlds biggest challenges to deliver products that will forever change the way people think about their homes.

Whether its developing Smart Grid enabled appliances that will shave energy peaks for utility companies and save consumers money or creating appliances with dramatically improved energy efficiency or responding to consumers desire for more time in their busy lives, the GE Appliances and Lighting teams are dedicated to turning imaginative ideas into leading products and services that solve some of the worlds toughest problems.

100 years of innovation and were just getting started! Join us and part of the next revolution in innovation and leadership.

For more information on GE and its family of businesses, please visit www.ge.com .

GE Appliances & Lighting is an Affirmative Action Employer.

Role Summary/Purpose The program manager is responsible for the strategic and day-to-day leadership of the cross-functional program team in all aspects of project execution.

Essential Responsibilities – Lead a cross-functional team of Sourcing, Manufacturing, Production, Product Management, Quality and Technology members to execute a new product introduction – Provide direct management for the GE based design team members and indirect management for offsite support design team members.

- Manage program risk, schedule, and budget, product performance, quality, and cost.

- Manage design and drawing release to meet program milestones.

- Develop and execute design builds and evaluation plans to validate product performance vs. the product technical specification.

- Present weekly pulsing updates to the Range business team highlighting program status to all deliverables and key risks.

- Utilize Design for Six Sigma methodology to ensure consumer and customer CTQs are met. – Drive design for reliability and cost of quality efforts to ensure reliability and service call rate requirements are met. – Work with Range material cost out team to drive incremental margin benefits with cost out projects within the program.

- Coordinate with the manufacturing and factory teams to optimize Six Sigma Lean efforts to drive program benefits.

- Lead team through all Reviews, specifically Program & Technical Reviews.

Present Program reviews to Business Cross-Function Leadership Team.

Qualifications/Requirements – Bachelors degree in mechanical or electrical engineering- Minimum of 5 years industry experience- Significant knowledge of residential cooking products, preferably gas products.

- Project leadership experience; demonstrated ability to manage risk and meet technical and commercial objectives.

- Strong oral and written communication skills – Strong interpersonal and leadership skills- Some travel required to support program milestones and production implementation.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications – Bachelors degree in mechanical or electrical engineering- Minimum of 5 years industry experience- Significant knowledge of residential cooking products, preferably gas products.

- Project leadership experience; demonstrated ability to manage risk and meet technical and commercial objectives.

- Strong oral and written communication skills – Strong interpersonal and leadership skills- Some travel required to support program milestones and production implementation.

Desired Characteristics – Six Sigma knowledge/certification – Lean knowledge/certification- Experience with gas range products

Program Manager – Cooking Products Job in Louisville 40225, Kentucky US

Harness Design Engineer Job in Louisville 40225, Kentucky US

Business GE Consumer & Industrial Business Segment Consumer & Industrial About Us GE Consumer & Industrial, an industry leader in major appliances, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, for more than a century has been committed to producing innovative products that change the way people live.

That spirit continues to flourish as our growing Appliance Engineering team takes on some of the worlds biggest challenges to deliver products that will forever change the way people think about their home appliances.

Whether its developing Smart Grid enabled appliances that will shave energy peaks for utility companies and save consumers money or creating appliances with dramatically improved energy efficiency or responding to consumers desire for more time in their busy lives, the GE Appliances Engineering team is dedicated to turning imaginative ideas into leading products and services that solve some of the worlds toughest problems.

100 years of innovation and were just getting started! Join us and part of the next revolution in GE appliance innovation and leadership.

For more information on GE and its family of businesses, please visit www.ge.com .

GE Consumer & Industrial is an Affirmative Action Employer.

Role Summary/Purpose This Harness Design Engineer role will lead the development of the harness for two new high end GE Profile washers (front load and top load).

With the many features offered in these new platforms this role will be challenged with finding innovative solutions to meet the product requirements, reliability and design for manufacturability.

This role is responsible for development efforts from concept design, prototype design & development, reliability testing and transition to production.

Essential Responsibilities * Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Lean development process.

* Design full harness including; connector selection, wire types, harness routing, manufacturing process, development of wiring diagrams and development of harness drawings.

* Use Six Sigma and reliability engineering methodology to prove and implement the new designs Build prototype harnesses to prove concept feasibility for design, manufacturability, serviceability, etc. * Collaborate with Controls engineers in EMI product level testing.

* Comply with all UL requirements related to harness and connectors.

Coordinate harness fabrication, quality plans and qualification with the selected manufacturer.

* Drive connector and harness design standardization across product lines.

Qualifications/Requirements * BS in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.

* Minimum 5 years experience in engineering design for high volume products.

* Strong AutoCAD and pro/E skills.

* Strong project planning and project leadership skills.

* Experience in meeting regulatory requirements (UL).

* Excellent analytical skills and ability to work in a team oriented environment.

* Demonstrated initiative, leadership, communication and interpersonal skills.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications For US employment opportunities, GE hires US citizens, permanent residents, asylees, refugees, and temporary residents.

Temporary residence does not include those with non-immigrant work authorization (F, J, H or L visas), such as students in practical training status.

Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill.

GE will require proof of work authorization.

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.

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Harness Design Engineer Job in Louisville 40225, Kentucky US