Industrial Engineer - Supply Chain

Industrial Engineer - Supply Chain

Company:

The Boeing Company

At Boeing, we are all innovators on a mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire.  From the seabed to outer space, you’ll learn and grow, contributing to work that shapes the world.  Find your future with us!

The Boeing Supply Chain Engineering team has an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Senior Industrial Engineer, located in the Greater Los Angeles area. 

This position provides Industrial Engineering and Lean deployment functional excellence within Boeing’s supply chain by rapidly analyzing, designing, and implementing sustainable production system improvements. Industrial Engineers lead initiatives aimed at supporting on-time delivery, enhancing quality, and driving cost improvements through application of Industrial Engineering principles. Each team member works in close collaboration with Boeing stakeholders and supplier leadership to plan and implement improvement projects and train suppliers on a rapid process improvement framework.

Projects range across the Enterprise including BCA, BDS, and BGS engagements in collaboration with Global Field Operations (GFO) and Supply Chain Operation teams. Industrial Engineers may be deployed to suppliers for various durations, ranging  from one week to three months, and may include long-term engagements involving domestic and international travel for up to 12 months; however, short-term engagements are most likely. The statement of work includes supplier recovery, sourcing and work transfers, supplier health and readiness, affordability, and functional excellence. Team members must be prepared to travel up to 75% of the time.

Five Essential Traits for Our Team:

• Humility: Ability to collaborate with suppliers with a mindset of learning and openness
• Grit & Tenacity: IEs often face challenging supplier engagements. They must be prepared to navigate and overcome difficult working situations
• Problem-Solving Skills: IEs should possess the ability to deconstruct complex problems into mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive (MECE) frameworks, ensuring thorough analysis and effective solutions.
• Influencing skills: While 30% of an IEs work is technical, the remaining 70% involves persuading others of the validity of technical solutions. IEs must have skills to influence both leaders and team members.
• Teamwork Skills: Collaboration is key, as IEs often work together,  especially in challenging engagements. Strong team relationships are essential for fostering a cohesive and productive working environment

Position Responsibilities as a Leader within the Team:

• Utilize and apply job practices, techniques, standards, principles, theories, and concepts effectively.
• Provide solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Work under general supervision; no instructions are needed for routine work. To receive general instructions for special assignments. Work is reviewed for sound technical judgment and overall adequacy
• Contribute to the completion of specific project milestones. Failure to achieve results, reach erroneous decisions, or make faulty recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and result in the allocation of additional resources
• Interact primarily with internal personnel and infrequently with inter-organizational and external customers on routine matters.

Position Responsibilities with Suppliers:

• Demonstrate leadership initiative, excellent communication skills, a strong technical foundation, and project management skills.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders, including leadership, to ensure tactical approaches and progress meet plan requirements.
• Effectively influence audience through data-driven approach and to demonstrates the capability to achieve project commitment and team buy-in.
• Manage, define, negotiate, and control the scope, cost, and timing of projects,  directing the use of project management tools (e.g., work break-down structure, precedence network, and resource allocation). To ensures projects are completed within budget, and on schedule
• Plan, prepare, train, apply and support cost projects to achieve improvement goals at key supplier sites, partnering with cross-functional Boeing and Supplier teams.
• Apply lean principles to Boeing supply chain production systems.
• Utilize intrinsic knowledge of airframe production systems to guide implementation and replication of advanced manufacturing techniques at supplier sites.
• Identify production constraints and inefficiencies to mitigate capital investment and to drive improvement plans to reduce flow days, d