Job Description Summary

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!

The Technology & Operations Capability Development (T&O CD) Team - Capability Enablement Leader is responsible for leading the integration and acceleration of learning, skills, and performance into the daily rhythm of GE Aerospace's operations. They will deliver consistent, scalable, and impactful capability development solutions that align with business imperatives.
This leader will design and implement a forward-looking skills enablement strategy that equips employees to thrive in an AI-augmented aerospace industry and embed continuous learning across the T&O organization.

Leading a learning team, with dotted-line access to analytics and LMS resources, this leader will identify and build new critical capabilities to accelerate workforce transformation.

The ideal candidate will possess expertise in learning methodologies, capability maturity, and adult learning principles with a strong ability to influence up, down, and across cross-functional partners and customer groups.

The ability to incorporate Workforce Planning, FLIGHT DECK, and T&O Organization KPIs and Hoshin Kanri initiatives will be critical to success.

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Skills Enablement Framework: Develop a dynamic skills strategy that identifies, measures, and develops mission-critical capabilities across the T&O organization.
• Program Excellence: Ensure premiere capability development programs (JETS, Systems Leader Development, etc.) are innovative, consistent, and deliver measurable business impact.
• Onboarding & Career Development Support: Partner with T&O CD leadership team members to support reimagining role-based onboarding and career pathways to close capability gaps and reduce time-to-proficiency in critical roles.
• FLIGHT DECK: Align skills, learning, and performance metrics with FLIGHT DECK principles, embedding learning into standard work and continuous improvement.
• Human-AI Collaboration: Enable employees to work effectively with AI, leveraging digital tools, simulations, and emerging technologies to enhance performance, quality, safety, and innovation.
• Data & Analytics: Use workforce insights and skills analytics to make capability readiness visible and actionable for leaders.
• Business Partnership & Design Standards: Elevate learning design practices by positioning senior learning designers as consultative partners to T&O leaders. Ensure solutions are evidence-based, measurable, and tied to operational outcomes.
• Mentorship & Communities of Practice: Support communities of practice; advance peer mentoring and capability-building methods (e.g., performance consulting, systems thinking, AI-enabled design).
• Team Leadership & Growth: Lead and coach a global team while expanding team capabilities (analytics, AI enablement, learning operations). Create a dynamic, inclusive team environment that attracts exceptional learning and development professionals to consistently exceed expectations.
• Measure Impact: Demonstrate ROI by linking skills and performance initiatives to strategic goals, operational results, and sustainable financial performance.
• Integration & Collaboration: Serve as a key partner across central learning, talent development, knowledge management, learning technology and capability maturity initiatives. Distinguish learning and development activities from knowledge sharing and management to ensure clarity of purpose, ownership, and outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Human Factors, or related field.
• 10+ years' experience in workforce development, organizational design, or skills strategy, with at least 5 years leading teams in a corporate/manufacturing environment.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Preferred Characteristics

• Expertise in skills assessment, learning analytics, and lean-aligned workforce enablement.
• Experience embedding continuous improvement and leadership behaviors into development strategies.
• Proven ability to integrate AI and emerging technologies into workforce enablement.
• Experience managing global and cross-functional teams.
• Background in aerospace, aviation, or advanced manufacturing industries.
• Familiarity with lean operating models.
• Record of thought leadership (speaking, publishing) in skills, performance, or AI-enabled workforce transformation.
• Strong communication and influence skills across technical, operational, and leadership levels.
• Experience in integrating learning systems with competency management tools, talent development frameworks, and pipeline initiatives.
• Ability to leverage industry research and best practices to drive innovative learning solutions.

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. Join us and help move the aerospace industry forward.

The base pay range for this position is 163,100- 230,000 . 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 November 7th, 2025.

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.

Additional Job Description

Additional Information

Compensation Grade

SPB1

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)).

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.

Relocation Assistance Provided: No