Senior Manager Manufacturing & Safety (MQ-25)

The MQ-25 Senior Manager role is a leadership position focused on driving the strategy, execution, and cross-functional coordination required to support Boeing’s MQ-25 Stingray program. This position will oversee key program objectives, including cost, schedule, performance, and stakeholder alignment, while helping ensure successful delivery of capabilities that support carrier-based unmanned aerial refueling operations.

A strong candidate for this role would bring a mix of program management experience, leadership skills, and aerospace or defense background, along with the ability to work across engineering, operations, supply chain, and customer-facing teams. The role is well suited for someone who can balance strategic decision-making with day-to-day execution in a highly complex and mission-critical environment.

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 Boeing Production System

• 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

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 5+ years’ experience working in or supporting a manufacturing environment

• 5+ years’ experience working with or supporting military aircraft

• 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

• 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

• Experience in a leadership role driving organizational and operational change management

• Experience building, developing, and maintaining customer relationships

Conflict of Interest:

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process

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.

Travel:

This position may require travel up to 10% of the time between Mascoutah, IL and Berkeley, MO

Shift:

This role is primarily first shift; however, there may be additional shift requirements to support program objectives

Total Rewards:

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.  

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away