Senior Manager Manufacturing & Safety (MQ-25)

Senior Manager Manufacturing & Safety (MQ-25)

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000430302

Date Posted:

2024-06-20

Location:

USA - Berkeley, MO, USA - Mascoutah, IL

Job Description Qualifications:

The Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) organization is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Manager - MQ25 (Level L) to join our dynamic team in Berkeley, MO.

These positions are for the future home of the MQ-25 manufacturing center in Mascoutah, IL. This facility is estimated to be completed in 2024 and work will be moved to this location.

Until then, all training and work will be done at Boeing St. Louis, located Berkeley, MO. The candidate selected for this role must be willing to train and work in St. Louis, and transfer to Mascoutah when the new facility is completed.

Position Responsibilities:

• Effectively lead teams and multi-disciplined support staff to positively impact safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Drive continuous improvement, standard work, and best practices within the Production System
• Drive for Safety improvements, defection reduction, and foreign object debris (FOD) prevention to ensure Product Safety.
• Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports.
• Support affordability by driving unit hour reductions and innovation implementation.
• Manages employees and other managers performing activities within manufacturing disciplines.
• Deploy Lean principles in accordance to the One Boeing Production System
• Foster a culture that supports diversity and inclusion.
• Conveys organizational messages to facilitate the accomplishment of organizational goals and monitors performance metrics
• Proactively communicates with leadership team, peers (e.g, fellow senior managers) and customers.
• Team with Quality on inspection approach, quality initiatives, corrective and preventative actions, and DCMA engagement/strategy.
• Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes. Creates a culture of continuous improvement.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at the listed location.

Shift:

This position is for 1st shift

Security Clearance & Export Control Requirements:

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):

• 3+ years of experience working as a leader or manager
• 3+ years of experience driving improvements across safety, quality, delivery, cost, innovation, and people on production and development programs
• 3+ years of experience in Quality Management Systems (QMS)
• 3+ years of experience leading cross-functional and Lean+ projects
• 3+ years of experience working with cross-functional teams in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with schedule and budget management, stakeholder communication, as well as understanding of execution of program planning to ensure cost, schedule and requirements are met.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• Direct functional experience within Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Engineering, or Supply Chain.
• Deep production program experience across driving improvements across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Innovation, and People on production and development programs.
• Direct applicable knowledge of Production Systems development and “Start Right" methodologies.
• Effective change leader; Ability to build an environment of inclusion, transparency and trust
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and rally a team in challenging work environments

Relocation:

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Travel:

The candidate may be traveling up to 10-25% of the time between the St. Louis, MO and Mascoutah, IL site. This position is for the future home of the MQ-25 manufacturing center in Mascoutah, IL. This facility is estimated to be completed in 2024 and work will be moved to this location. 

Until then, all training and work will be done at Boeing St. Louis, located