Senior Production Engineering Manager - Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) & Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3)

Senior Production Engineering Manager - Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) & Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3)

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) Space, Intelligence & Weapon Systems (SI&WS) is seeking a Senior Production Engineering Manager to join our team at Huntsville, AL. This Leader will be responsible for Production Engineering (PE) work scope execution supporting the Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) portfolio, with critical focus on Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) production and rate readiness. This position will be responsible for managing employees and managers performing production engineering activities. 

 

This leader must have strong experience with production planning for rate increase within an active high-rate production system and must also be experienced with implementing production process controls and continuous quality improvement initiatives.  The manager in this position must effectively establish key cross-functional relationships to define and align priorities to drive outcomes.  In addition, this leader must have demonstrated performance leading through complexity and dynamic changes, proven ability to simplify objectives, be a creative strategic problem solver, and proficient in concise Boeing and customer executive communication including metrics and execution plans. The ideal candidate must also possess expertise in mediating conflicts, balancing conflicting priorities, and fostering cooperation to address intricate technical and program-related challenges.

 

This role will report to the SI&WS Director and Capability Leader for Production Engineering – Weapons & Intelligence, with matrix reporting structure to the IAMD & PAC-3 program Integrated Product Team(s) IPT(s).

 

 Position Responsibilities:

• Lead production engineering (PE) ensuring execution of SOW aligned to quality, safety, cost & delivery objectives – executing integrated organizational plans, policies and procedures and guiding the development of technical strategies to meet organizational goals with metrics in place to manage performance to plan, actions to improve, recovery plans, and communicating information at an executive level

• Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes to ensure alignment with business plans and goals and compliance with command media, processes, procedures

• Drive continuous improvement strategies embedded within the organizational culture to advance LEAN across the value stream. Proactively identify and adopt technologies and tools, aligned to BDS standards

• Show a proactive and patient personality with a willingness to listen, coach, and lead the team with clear direction

• Communicate clearly at all levels, adjusting for the audience

• Bring creative solutions and plans to solve problems, bringing engineering excellence aligned to program priorities

• Lead execution of ‘start right’ production engineering, support gate reviews, proposal reviews, business capture, and future factory activities

• Manage workforce talent ensuring teams are staffed with the skills needed.  Includes Identifying skill gaps and working cross functionally to develop and deploy training, etc. to mitigate them and development of Technical Fellowships, Production Architects, and Technical Lead Engineers

• Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports. Includes establishing working relationships with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Safety, Test

 

This position is expected to be 100% onsite and will be required to work onsite at the listed location.  Expectations are to spend 90% onsite at Huntsville, AL with the remainder of time allocated to travel as appropriate to support the business.

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship.  An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

 

 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 wor