Senior Manufacturing and Quality Product Specialist

Senior Manufacturing and Quality Product Specialist

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior Manufacturing and Quality Product Specialist to join the team in Seattle, WA, Berkeley, MO or North Charleston, SC. 

Step into a transformative role where you will be responsible for the life cycle management of key manufacturing and quality data analytics products that enhance operations across the enterprise. This senior position will require your presence at various Boeing sites.

As a pivotal leader, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to guide products from conception to launch, driving the adoption of innovative, data-driven solutions in manufacturing and quality. You will engage directly with business users and stakeholders across Boeing, taking accountability for advancing data, digital thread, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications within these domains, while ensuring consistent product design and delivery across diverse manufacturing environments.

Your additional responsibilities will include defining the product strategy for data, digital thread, and analytics in manufacturing and quality, identifying and prioritizing business needs, de-risking product development, monitoring performance, and mentoring product development teams.

We are seeking a leader with exceptional communication skills, capable of conveying complex messages and trade-offs while telling a compelling story. You should possess strong leadership abilities to influence a diverse group of stakeholders and a passion for challenging the status quo, discovering new solutions, and driving innovative ideas. Embrace change and empower others to learn and grow as you make a significant impact in our organization!

Position Responsibilities:

• Understand current state of manufacturing and quality at Boeing, identify opportunities for solving complex problems through data, digital thread and AI

• Develop product roadmaps with a clear tie to manufacturing and quality end results in a real production or supply chain environment

• Define, build, manage, deploy and sustain products for data, analytics and AI capabilities in the manufacturing and quality domains across Boeing businesses

• Set up structured, disciplined processes for work intake, requirements management and customer feedback

• Establish a result-oriented, strong execution team and operating rhythm for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment of products

• Establish maturity measurement across the product development life cycle for clarity in progress and business value delivered

• Develop end to end knowledge base across the product life cycle to build an impactful story beyond project execution for stakeholders at both working and leadership levels

• Develop future state vision for data lake strategy to integrate manufacturing and quality data from across Boeing

• Help shape digital thread strategy for the enterprise and lead implementation and adoption of digital thread in manufacturing and quality 

• Mentor, develop and evaluate product development teams within the product portfolio

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 5+ years of experience in product management related to manufacturing, quality and supply chain

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying data, digital thread and analytics capabilities onto a real production and supply chain environment with realized, measurable business impact

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 10 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in engineering or manufacturing

• Experience with end-to-end domain knowledge in enabling digital in manufacturing, quality and supply chain

• Experience telling a full story of digital product development and its impact on manufacturing and quality

• Experience with navigating through ambiguities and building a highly effective, strong execution team for the overall product success

• Experience with agile implementation, CI/CD, etc.

• Experience with the software development lifecycle (including requirements analysis, design, code, integration & test, sustainment, etc.) and test driven development (TDD)

• Experience working with a geographically and culturally diverse team

• Experience with aerospace manufacturing and quality

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