AvionX Hardware Development Chief Engineer (Senior or Principal)

AvionX Hardware Development Chief Engineer (Senior or Principal)

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000402617

Date Posted:

2023-11-27

Location:

USA - Hazelwood, MO, USA - Plano, TX

Job Description Qualifications:

The Boeing Company’s AvionX organization is seeking a Chief Engineer for our hardware development team, located in either Hazelwood, Missouri or Plano, Texas.  Exceptional candidates will enjoy technical challenges, personal growth and prestige as technical lead, and authority of teams of engineers worldwide defining and developing avionics for Boeing platforms. We are looking for a broad range of experience including Senior or Principal level Engineers.

The AvionX Hardware Development Team Chief Engineer leads a geographically diverse engineering workforce to achieve technical excellence throughout the product development lifecycle applying an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop integrate, validate, and verify hardware. Successful job performance depends upon balancing creativity, executability and safety of flight while meeting cost and schedule goals. You will drive first-time quality through extensive application of processes, design practices, and Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP). You will develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, and partnering organizations for on-going and new business product development of the highest importance to The Boeing Company.

The chief engineer for the hardware development team is responsible for leading a team hardware engineers in a series of products being internally developed. The Chief Engineer will directly support engineering and program leadership, and serve as a member of the hardware development core leadership team, supporting the AvionX engineering in vision creation and strategy execution.

Position Responsibilities:

• Oversees end-to-end product development, spanning all aspect of the hardware product life-cycle: from product concept inception strategy, requirements definition, product development, design, testing, certification, product delivery and to post-delivery support

• Lead a geographically diverse and multi-national engineering workforce team in 4 primary states and 1 international location to achieve technical excellence throughout hardware products development lifecycle applying an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop integrate, and validate and verify hardware.

• Establish a culture of proactive cross-functional technical oversight, risk management and rapid issue resolution, providing alternative paths for issue resolution and open and honest dialogue on technical issues across all functions.

• Serve as technical authority on applicable AvionX engineering boards. Lead and/or approves root cause and corrective action (RCCA) activities. Manages design changes and configuration control as well as creation, establishment and execution of hardware design processes.

• Develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, and partnering organizations for on-going and new business product development

• Responsible for quality and operational excellence of hardware products to drive first-time quality through extensive application of hardware process improvement, design practice development, and Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

This position is hybrid. This means that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options.  This is at the hiring team’s discretion and could potentially change in the future.  Note-candidates can anticipate working 3 days onsite and 2 days remote per week in one of the locations listed above.

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's, Master's or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry

• 5+ years of engineering leadership or chief engineer experience

• 5+ years of engineering experience involving system requirements, functional decomposition and allocation, integrated design, analysis and evaluation, or verification of airborne electronic hardware

• 5+ years of experience executing quality requirements on Commercial or Major DOD programs

• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time both domestic and internationally

Preferred Qualifications (Desired