Experienced or Senior Airworthiness & Regulatory Engineer (Team Leader)

Experienced or Senior Airworthiness & Regulatory Engineer (Team Leader)

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is seeking an Experienced or Senior Airworthiness & Regulatory Engineer (Team Leader) to join the Regulatory Administration and Airworthiness organization in North Charleston, South Carolina.

This team has opportunities for those looking toward next steps in their career development in the field of aviation regulations and safety. If you are a growth-minded person with excitement for certification systems, realizing efficiencies, and thrives in an environment of latitude, we encourage you to apply.

The team and leadership encourage innovation and forward-thinking solutions in an autonomous atmosphere. The team enjoys problem solving through investigating issues, developing action plans, data analysis and driving systems level solutions. This is a dynamic and highly visible environment.

The successful candidate is a high-performing individual contributor who is seeking to develop Lead experience or a current Team Lead seeking to expand their breadth by working with global regulators in Commercial Aviation.

Position Responsibilities:

• Provides technical guidance and training relative to complex safety and airworthiness matters.
• Navigate through various regulatory processes to identify effective solutions for complex problems, while providing guidance to all airplane programs.
• Coordinate with engineering teams, project administrators, and regulators (may include international regulators/validation authorities) to successfully certify projects for commercial aircraft production teams
• Review certification plans, write letters to regulators, and understand compliance process
• Lead and facilitate discussions with the FAA, foreign regulatory agencies, and airplane program leaders
• Leading cross-functional teams resulting in resolution of technical issues.
• Coordinate technical messaging and partnering with the FAA on regulatory issues
• Own, manage, and have/develop technical aptitude to enable execution of process/procedure documents (BPM, BPIs, D6s, D950s, etc.)
• Ensure proper coordination across products, platforms and functional areas to promote culture of compliance to requirements and application of procedures and FAA guidance
• Develop strategic action plans for changes to certification processes and execute those plans through completion
• Contribute to root cause corrective action plans for development and execution of noncompliance’s, voluntary disclosures, informal corrective actions, formal corrective actions, etc. including reviewing/researching processes, design practices, analysis, conducting root cause analysis, and identifying/owning corrective actions and corrective action plans

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement.
• Level 4: 9+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of experience working directly with the FAA and/or ODA on Type Certification projects
• 5+ years of experience in developing, contributing and/or maintaining processes, policies, and procedures

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Level 5: 14+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Engineering unit member or another FAA delegated member
• Experience working across the certification value stream
• Experience communicating verbally and in writing, to a variety of audiences including FAA representation, ODA Leadership, Engineering Unit Members (E-UM) & Project Administrators (PA), and Program & Functional Leaders
• Experience coaching/teaching E-UMs, Design Approval Engineers, Technical Specialists, Cert Plan Owners/Authors on certification processes and tool usage
• Experience identifying web application impact due to changes in certification requirements
• Systems thinker capable of making engineering proposals based on data analysis and forecasting wide reaching and longer-term impacts
• Experience developing presentations and presenting to multiple levels of an organization
• Experience investigating and finding solutions to complex technical or regulatory issues
• Experience recognizing and balance conflicting priorities

Conflict of Interest: Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the C