Senior Ethics and Compliance Advisor

Senior Ethics and Compliance Advisor

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing’s Law and Global Compliance │Ethics organization is seeking a Senior Site Compliance and Ethics Officer (SCEO) to support the Kennedy Space Center, Houston and Daytona Beach sites with interim support for New Orleans.

The SCEO will join the Localized Engagement Team within the Ethics organization and will serve as the Global Compliance focal at Boeing’s Kennedy Space Center site and interim support for the New Orleans site. The SCEO will be responsible for proactively identifying and implementing engagement opportunities to encourage compliance, foster an open and transparent work environment, and to help create a culture of personal accountability for compliance. 

The SCEO will be responsible for engaging with employees at all levels across all programs and functions at their sites in an effort to prevent, detect, and respond to compliance and ethics risks.  The position requires strategic thinking, strong written and oral communication skills, analytical skills, collaboration, independent judgment, and the ability to influence others.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead, execute and integrate business partner engagements and Ethics and Compliance strategic initiatives

• Influence senior leadership to increase awareness and ensure mitigation of ethical and compliance risks in alignment with business objectives 

• Leads and develops plans for improving operations and mitigating risks

• Lead with integrity by promoting and empowering employees to speak-up, listening to them when they do, and guarding against retaliation

• Promote compliance and ethics as a top priority to the site; fostering a culture where employees themselves own and embrace compliance and ethics; and providing coaching, as necessary

• Identify ways to enhance, develop, implement, and execute compliance and ethics programs and initiatives in ways that resonate best at the supporting sites

• Communicate the importance of the Company’s Code of Conduct and how it relates to various aspects of the business

• Maintain monitoring processes and other preventative controls to detect and prevent potential violations of the Company Code of Conduct, including violations of company policies and behavior inconsistent with company values

• Ascertain and understand local business priorities and implement strategies to advance those priorities consistent with our value

• Analyze investigations metrics, business imperatives, external factors, and observations made through engagements to develop tailored guidance and business solutions based on this analysis

• Identify and escalate emerging risks to management and functional partners as appropriate

• Identify and manage risks, monitoring, enforcing and evaluating the effectiveness of compliance and ethics policies and promoting an inclusive speak-up culture

• Maintain and foster strong constructive relationships with local leaders and other stakeholders to facilitate an effective risk culture where safety, quality and integrity are top of mind of all employees

• Partner closely with site attorneys to identify localized compliance risk, identify behavioral indicators of emergent compliance risk, and develop strategies to proactively address risks before they manifest

• Ensure timely, thorough, and quality intake of issues

• Provide guidance and direction to management and other personnel on all matters pertaining to compliance and ethics

• Research and respond to compliance related questions from all levels of employees

• SCEO may also be required to support secondary Boeing sites in addition to their primary site, which may include subsidiary support

• Where applicable, SCEO will be responsible for overseeing a team of Ethics Ambassadors to help encourage a speak-up culture through integrated messaging about company values, engaging with employees at all levels across all programs and functions at assigned sites.

• Assume additional responsibilities and performing special projects as needed

A SCEO’s success will require collaboration with employees at all levels to identify and proactively address localized and emergent compliance risks, seek out pockets of anxiety, and amplify and reinforce expectations for compliant behavior. Establishing key partnerships with members of the site and subsidiaries’ leadership teams – specifically the site and subsidiary leaders, legal counsels, HR focals, communications teams, and other subject matter experts is critical. 

Success in this role will be hinged on the SCEO’s ability to develop proactive solutions to prevent,