Aerospace Systems Safety Engineer (Associate, Mid-Level, and Senior)

Aerospace Systems Safety Engineer (Associate, Mid-Level, and Senior)

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Safety, Security, and Airworthiness (SS&A) organization is looking for Airplane Safety Engineers (Associate, Mid-Level, Senior) to join the Design Build Safety (DBS) team in Everett, Auburn, or Renton, WA. Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Associate, Mid-Level, and Senior Airplane Safety Engineers.

Do you get energized by seeing our product get built and maintained? Are you passionate about product safety and eager to make a high-impact contribution to Boeing’s production and maintenance processes?

Join the newly formed Airplane Safety Team supporting the Enduring Design Build Safety (DBS) initiative, a key part of Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ (BCA) Safety and Quality Plan (SQP) following the Alaska Airlines 1282 incident. DBS is focused on eliminating or minimizing production and maintenance errors that can cause or contribute to failure conditions, ensuring the highest level of rigor and confidence in product safety.

As an Airplane Safety Engineer on the DBS team, you will have the opportunity to work independently while leading teams tasked to deliver urgent product safety solutions, mature robust processes, and help integrate Safety Management System (SMS) and Quality Management System (QMS) functions. This role offers high visibility and the opportunity to collaborate across design, manufacturing, and quality engineering discipline across the entire product life cycle.  The importance of this function can’t be overstated as you will contribute to Boeing product safety through Safety Assurance of our build and maintenance activities.

Engagement with company leadership and functional experts from across the company make this position highly invigorating. We have a close-knit group with mentors available for consultation.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead safety analyses for Design Build Assessments (DBAs) on BCA production and maintenance programs, including:

  • Creating safety packages summarizing hazards from Functional Hazard Assessments (FHAs), System Safety Assessments (SSAs), and in-service product safety events

  • Partnering with Design, Manufacturing, and Quality Engineering

  • Supporting Process Failure Modes Effect Analyses (PFMEA) and developing mitigations, controls, and barriers to prevent production and maintenance escapes

  • Presenting at Technical Design Reviews and serving as the authoritative expert on product safety documentation and containment actions

• Support or Lead Safety Risk Management (SRM) activities related to DBS findings, including hazard identification, risk assessment, bow-tie development, and mitigation strategies

• Strengthen SMS/QMS integration by advancing processes that:

  • Ensure appropriate SMS response to QMS signals

  • Assess process noncompliance for product safety risk

  • Identify production build issues with high safety severity or verification system failures

  • Evaluate potential systemic corrective actions beyond restoring the affected part

• Mature solutions for data monitoring, systemic hazard escalation, enhanced controls, and design practices to ensure product conformance. We coordinate closely with Boeing functional groups, management and executives, and suppliers to ensure all stakeholders are aligned with proposed solutions.

• Support updates to functional excellence (templates, trainings) based on findings

• Partner cross-functionally to increase visibility of product safety sensitivity across the digital thread and drive improvements to Boeing Safety Intelligence

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a high-impact, enduring team recognized for excellence in safety and quality. You will work alongside dedicated professionals nominated for the Safety and Quality Award Team of the Year, contributing directly to the safety and reliability of Boeing’s products.

We value a broad range of perspectives, background, and experience as essential to delivering the safest products possible. We support a collaborative environment and encourage a healthy work-life balance

If you are ready to help shape the future of airplane safety and quality at Boeing, apply today to join the Design Build Safety team!

A successful Associate candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work effectively with a multidisciplinary team

• Ability and will