For my current rotation, I am working as a project manager in Aviation Systems, a sub-business of GE Aviation. While GE used to produce mainly aircraft engines, the acquisition of Systems allows us to offer products that go outside of the engine also, like avionics and flight control systems.

My assignment for the next six months is to implement a product data management tool for one of our sites on the east coast. A PDM tool allows the business to track the entire development lifecycle of its products, organize part drawings, track revisions and changes, and help keep our engineers [mostly] sane.

At the same time that I'm preparing to roll out this software to a new site, we're also upgrading the version of this PDM tool at our other sites that are already using it. I'm helping with that effort as well, especially with testing and training, to make sure that the upgrade is successful before my implementation is supposed to happen.

One of my favorite parts of this rotation so far has been the opportunity to travel. While I'm normally stationed at Aviation headquarters in Cincinnati, I spent the first two weeks of my rotation in Michigan meeting the rest of my team, and I just booked a trip to New Jersey for the first week of November. Definitely racking up the frequent flyer miles!