GE Aviation Edison Works, Director, Technical Products: There Will Always Be Demand for Infrastructure Engineers

GE Aviation Edison Works, Director, Technical Products: There Will Always Be Demand for Infrastructure Engineers

Jill Campbell, Director, Technical Products, GE Aviation Edison Works, speaks with Catherine Bushong, Director, Strategic Accounts & Partnership Engagement, Vernovis, about people culture at the organization and opportunities in the infrastructure space.

Campbell says that almost any role in the infrastructure space at GE Aviation can start from a fresh graduate and move all the way up to a principal architect. Regarding the organization’s approach to fresh talent, she says that they look for people who can take ownership, want to lead, and do things they haven't done before;

“We find good people and we align them in the right places so that they can help benefit the business as a whole,” she adds. “Fitting into the culture of collaborative work and leading with humility are some of our primary core values.” 

Speaking about pursuing a career in infrastructure. Campbell notes that it’s a career for those who want to understand how things work. While it is all right to want to build the next big app, it is also important to understand the core foundation of what all these applications run on, and the foundation of the internet.

“It's all cool to be able to click these things, but if you understand the background pieces of it, you are always going to be employed,” she says. “Even when we talk about the cloud, somewhere it is physically touching something, physically connecting somewhere else. You're almost always guaranteed employment and it's always going to be around. There's always going to be a demand for an infrastructure engineer and expertise.”

Campbell makes a point of mentioning Mike Beavis, a former colleague who she celebrates as her biggest mentor because he offered her the right guidance in the early days of her career and still does today whenever she is in need.

“It’s just the way his transparency, humility, and his genuine sense of helping was — not only saying he wanted to help, but helping. And I pay back to his group all the time. I speak with them, mentoring other women who want to be in IT. Also, anybody who is between jobs or looking for jobs, I want to be able to help make that connection. I try to mimic as many of his traits as I can. And I hope I do him some sort of justice in that,” she concludes.

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