Senior Production Engineering Manager

Senior Production Engineering Manager

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is looking for a Senior Production Engineering Manager (Level L) to join the 787 Production Engineering leadership team located in North Charleston, SC.

This role will lead manufacturing engineering (ME) teams in Final Assembly as we focus on ensuring we achieve a world class Boeing Production System that eliminates waste, keeps a keen eye on safety and ensures first pass quality.

Successful candidates will have prior demonstrated success in developing and maintaining productive relationships with customers, stakeholders, and peers, as well as strong problem-solving skills, a willingness to take initiative, and the ability to partner across multiple engineering functions, business segments, and geographic areas. They will also have prior experience working in high-paced critical-flow production environments and a proven track record of being adaptable to changing demands.

All candidates will be considered based on the strength of their Production Engineering background, breadth and depth of experience, and educational background. We are looking for leaders who bring diverse perspectives, curiosity and creativity when approaching challenges, and an insatiable desire for improvement in a global business environment.

Position Responsibilities:

• Develops and implements integrated departmental plans to ensure business, technical and customer requirements are achieved

• Forecasts, obtains and oversees personnel, facilities, services, equipment and tools to meet project and departmental requirements

• Coaches, counsels, mentors and provides developmental opportunities and job assignments to enhance employee performance and expand capabilities of first-level managers and others within their department

• Provides on-going developmental feedback. Promotes employee recognition and builds a departmental culture that improves employee satisfaction and retains a skilled and motivated workforce

• Provides input on the development of departmental business and technical strategies, goals, objectives and related metrics to ensure alignment with Company vision/strategy

• Builds strategic multi-functional and cross-organizational partnerships to resolve problems, improve processes or achieve goals

• Establishes and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, peers, partners and team members

• Create a culture of continuous improvement by communicating/deploying enterprise best practices and employee engagement to improve cost, quality, delivery, employee job satisfaction and customer satisfaction

• Leads employees and first-level managers performing engineering and technical activities in Production Engineering

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

• 3 + years of experience leading a cross-functional team.

• 3+ years of experience developing and maintaining relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, and partners.

• 3+ years of experience communicating to employees, customers, peers and all levels of leadership.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 4+ years of experience driving and implementing continuous improvement in a production facing role.

• 4+ years of experience building a safety and quality first culture.

• 4+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams in support of production operations.

• Experience with production build plan ownership, including parts/plans/people

• Experience with BPS (Boeing Production System) principles and system health measures.

• Experience with building an organizational talent pipeline.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent.  Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.  

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