Shipside Manufacturing Engineer (Associate, Mid-Level or Senior)

Shipside Manufacturing Engineer (Associate, Mid-Level or Senior)

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) is looking for an Associate, Mid-Level, or Senior Shipside Manufacturing Engineer (Level 2, 3 or 4) to join our team in New Orleans, Louisiana at Michoud Assembly Facility.

Join Boeing's pioneering team as a Shipside Manufacturing Engineer on the Space Launch System (SLS) program, where your expertise will contribute to the future of space exploration. We are seeking passionate and skilled engineers at various levels to support our mission of delivering innovative solutions in manufacturing operations. This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and collaborate with a diverse team dedicated to excellence.

A proud heritage — Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF)

• Located in New Orleans East and operated in partnership with NASA, Michoud is often called “America’s Rocket Factory.” It combines one of the world’s largest industrial manufacturing buildings with heavy‑lift tooling, large‑format fabrication capability, and a decades‑long heritage of producing the large structures that enable human exploration.

• Key capabilities:

  • One of the largest manufacturing floors under one roof (roughly 43 acres) with expansive high bays, large cranes, and controlled clean areas for flight hardware.

  • Heavy‑lift tooling, large autoclaves, precision weld stations, and integrated assembly platforms uniquely suited to build launch vehicle stages, cryogenic tanks, habitats, and other very‑large structures.

  • Deep partnerships with NASA, primes, suppliers, and commercial customers that enable integrated production and vertical assembly of complex systems.

Programs Michoud has supported:

• Apollo era — fabrication and assembly of large structural components and stages that enabled the Saturn family and the Moon landings.

• Skylab and early space station hardware — large pressurized and structural elements for orbital programs.

• Space Shuttle — primary production site for the Space Shuttle External Tank for all shuttle flights, demonstrating high‑volume, reliable large‑tank manufacturing.

• Constellation/Ares and Orion precursor work — facilities and tooling used for development and preparatory manufacturing of next‑generation crew systems.

• Space Launch System (SLS) & Artemis — production of SLS core stages and other large flight structures central to crewed lunar missions.

• Orion and crewed spacecraft structures — production and assembly supporting crew transport elements and mission‑critical hardware.

• Civil, commercial, and scientific payloads — large spacecraft structures, launch components, and ground systems for NOAA, civil agencies, and commercial partners.

Why Michoud matters for your work:

• Institutional knowledge: Lessons learned from Apollo, Shuttle, and ongoing Artemis production flow directly into your process designs, helping you create robust, flight‑certifiable manufacturing processes.

• Unique scale: Michoud enables processes (welding, tooling, handling, large‑structure integration) that smaller sites cannot — giving Methods Process Analysts the chance to shape workflows used on the largest rockets and habitats humanity builds.

• Strategic impact: Your process improvements help preserve and evolve America’s capability to produce the big, complex hardware required for sustainable lunar and deep space exploration.

Exciting projects you may support:

• Artemis crewed missions and Orion integration for safe lunar transport.

• Lunar Gateway logistics and systems planning for long‑duration lunar operations.

• Surface systems and habitat production workflows for sustained lunar presence.

• In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) manufacturing enablers and logistics to reduce Earth resupply dependence.

• Robotic assembly, autonomous tooling, and advanced manufacturing for on‑ and off‑planet operations.

• Reusable systems and sustainment processes that drive cost‑effective, high‑cadence exploration.

• Preparatory manufacturing workstreams that feed forward into Mars and deep space architectures.

Why this role is exciting:

• Make a measurable impact: Shape forecasts, capacity plans, and master schedules that directly influence mission readiness and crew safety.

• Be the technical expert: Own Business System factory definitions, labor hour estimates, and integrated shop plans that enable precision manufacturing.

• Solve high‑value problems: R