Lead Payload Design Engineer

Lead Payload Design Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000430710

Date Posted:

2024-09-10

Location:

USA - Long Beach, CA

Job Description Qualifications:

Boeing Global Services is currently seeking Lead Payload Design Engineers to become part of the Payloads Interior Modification team in Long Beach, CA.

The Payloads Interior Modification team is responsible for interior modification design for all Boeing airplane models (including but not limited to 737, 777, and 787). These positions offer excellent career growth opportunities and a wide range of experience in commercial airplane retrofit. 

The selected candidate will develop, integrate and document structural and interior payload system requirements to establish the system design. You will develop, maintain and modify structural and interior payload system and component designs, using 3-D Computer Aided Design tools and/or other design methods, to provide product definition to other engineering groups, production operations, suppliers and external customers throughout the product lifecycle.

As a team member, you will perform or lead integration of analytical and test results to validate and verify systems and components meet requirements and specifications. Candidates will manage supplier development, test and production activities and coordinates with the supplier to optimize the design and achieve program goals.  Team members will also develop new design/analysis processes and tools to improve the effectiveness, quality and efficiency of the development effort. You will investigate emerging technologies to develop concepts for future product designs to meet projected requirements. Candidate will work under minimal direction.

Position Responsibilities:

• Work to customer requirements to support Payloads Engineering definition for Interior Modification programs. 
• Fully understands the project statement of work including general certification issues to provide engineering definition. 
• Provide tasks, hours, and flows to develop baseline schedule, support commitment meetings and engage affected groups if required.
• Works closely with Design Approval Engineers (DAEs) to show compliance to required regulations.
• Work as a lead engineer on a multi-disciplined team with interaction with suppliers, customers, and/or regulatory agencies as required.
• Support project proposal activities by reviewing statement of work, assessing potential impact to certification or to configuration control, and by defining overall effort required to complete the project.
• Lead and execute small, medium or large projects from proposal phase to project completion. 
• Identify any scope change and assess impact to cost and schedule.   
• Provide engineering oversight to Boeing global partners.
• Manage work assignments and distribution to global partners.
• Review and approve their work for quality and accuracy to ensure that it meets Boeing standards and certification requirements.
• Present engineering technical information, and support customer meetings.
• Coordinate at project level, provide project status to leadership, including assignments, schedules, and budget.
• Support non-compliance investigation as part of Boeing Problem Solving Model (BPSM) to provide immediate and long-term mitigating action.
• Apply engineering principles to investigate technical inquiries, technical deviations, customer/modification site inquiries, non-conformances, operational and quality issues that cannot be resolved by customer. 
• Provide technical interim and final engineering solutions.
• Review and approve service bulletins for technical content that are generated from released engineering.
• Lead supplier data review and approval. 
• Define supplier data required for supplier-related interior modifications.
• Establish due dates, define required reviewers.
• Review and approve data submittals in CSDT system.
• Ensure that engineering meets all associated FAA regulations.
• Develop certification plans when required, and address any AD related items, including AMOC, that are part of the statement of work.
• Support skill development and knowledge transfer as mentor to early career engineers.
• Some domestic and/or international travel required.

This position must meet Export Control compliance requirements, therefore a “US Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 is required. “US Person” includes US Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or a