Production Chief Engineer

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a motivated Production Chief Engineer support our AvionX team located in Smithfield, PA. This position will focus on supporting the Enterprise Test & Technology (ET&T). In this role you will lead production readiness, testability, and manufacturability for avionics and electronics at our new Smithfield Production & Test facility. You will support AvionX across BDS, BCA, and BGS, influence design and supply chain decisions, and accelerate time-to-market for next generation avionics.

Our team develops and produces avionics and electronics systems designed for use on aircraft and other platforms for purposes such as navigation, flight controls, information systems, and other core avionics functions.  We have set our sights high to design, develop, and manufacture the most technically advanced and reliable avionic components in the world. We are innovating and developing new products to address the future of the urban air mobility as well as our next generation of commercial, tactical, and trainer aircraft markets, weapons and others.

This role will be highly visible across AvionX and the broader Boeing enterprise, offering opportunity to influence architecture decisions, supply chain strategies, and next-generation manufacturing automation to accelerate time-to-market for critical avionics systems

Who You Are

In this role you will lead the research, development, evaluation and integration of robotics, automation, and new technologies. Including, processes related to equipment and tooling for applicability to programs and products.

You are a senior electronics focused Production Chief Engineer who combines deep circuit and systems level expertise with hands on manufacturing and test experience to make complex avionics designs producible, testable, reliable and safe. Are engaged with electronic Design Engineering teams and influence decisions early, translate engineering intent into repeatable factory processes, and own the technical interface between Design, Manufacturing, Test and Quality across program lifecycles. Proactively able to remove barriers to production readiness, champion Design for Manufacturing and Test (DFM/DFT) principles, and turn lessons learned into practical changes that reduce cost, risk, and schedule exposure.

Position Responsibilities:

• Review work products and provide Manufacturing and Quality input to design and test artifacts, including schematics, PCB/CCA drawings, parts lists, test plans/procedures, process templates, and coordination/decision memos. You ensure documentation aligns with producibility, testability, and program requirements

• Drive New Product Introductions (NPI) readiness and DFM/DFT (Design for Manufacturing & Test), resolve product and process issues through root cause and corrective actions, and mentor teams while embedding Safety, Quality, and Lean improvements across programs.

• Applies knowledge of Boeing design principles for manufacturing capabilities and constraints to assess and resolve product or process issues throughout the product lifecycle.

• Provides technical leadership and mentoring to all levels AvionX organization

• Create mitigation plans for identified risks to Safety, Quality, Manufacturing Processes, Test, and program schedule and drive cross functional closure for full product lifecycle

• Develop, deliver, and maintain technical training, Site Level Instructions (SLIs), and equipment demos

• Mentor engineers, interns, co‑ops, and rotational participants to raise team capability in PCB/CCA manufacturability, test techniques, and troubleshooting best practices

• Lead and participate in cross functional scrums, ad hoc technical meetings, governance and decision boards and Lean innovation activities. You facilitate timely decisions, continuous improvement, and alignment between Design, Manufacturing, Test, Quality, and Supply Chain

• Create and maintain AvionX level technical artifacts such as site drawings, assembly/process flows, test fixture specifications, and process templates that enable consistent, repeatable builds across sites and suppliers

• You will be accountable for establishing production readiness gates and go/no-go criteria, defining key production KPIs, and delivering measurable outcomes for ramp rate, yield, and first-pass test success

• You will influence supplier design-for-manufacturing strategies and ensure downstream testab