Senior Production Engineering Manager – Site Labs and Equipment | BGRC

Senior Production Engineering Manager – Site Labs and Equipment | BGRC

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Space, Intelligence & Weapons Systems (SI&WS) is seeking an experienced Senior Production Engineering (PE) Manager – Site Labs and Equipment to join our team at the Boeing Guidance Repair Center (BGRC), located in Heath, OH.

Boeing, Heath located within the heart of the expanding "Central Ohio Technical Base Center" is embedded within the Central Ohio Aerospace and Technology Center (COATC), a growing and diverse technology center with a multitude of Industry and Services, focused on technology expansion, healthcare, and safety. Originally established as the Newark Air Force Base in the 1960’s this site was the Air Force’s Center of Excellence for Guidance system repair and Metrology Services and remains an integral part of the BDS and SI&WS portfolio. Heath is considered a secondary site, in terms of size and portfolio.

This position will be responsible for managing employees and managers of an integrated multi-disciplined team overseeing execution of site-level labs and equipment, with direct responsibilities for metrology, test equipment maintenance and repair, and tool engineering.  This leader must have strong experience in effectively building solid cross-functional relationships to define and align priorities to drive outcomes for functional execution. In addition, this leader must have demonstrated performance leading through complexity and dynamic changes, proven ability to simplify objectives, be a creative strategic problem solver, and proficient in executive leader communication including metrics and recovery plans.  Other skills the leader must possess expertise in include mediating conflicts, balancing conflicting priorities, and fostering cooperation to address intricate technical and program-related challenges.

This role will report directly to the SI&WS Senior Director and Capability Leader for Production Engineering, Test, and Launch with indirect program relationships aligned to Guidance Repair Center program management priorities and will also have dotted line reporting responsibilities to the Strategic Deterrent Systems (SDS) Chief Engineer.

This role will focus on executing the site capability for:

Metrology, Equipment & Tooling, and Test Equipment Repair and Maintenance

• Heath develops, designs and maintains the engineering for many of its program required tooling and equipment needs across the site.
• The Heath Metrology laboratory is one of the few metrology centers of excellence across the Boeing Company and has the capability to calibrate in excess of 90% of all Heath tooling and specialty equipment needs.
• Our team of specialty engineering technicians maintain, repair and calibrate our site wide Heath program Test Equipment needs.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead execution of site-level labs and equipment, with direct responsibilities for metrology, test equipment maintenance and repair, and tool engineering work statements aligned to quality, safety, cost & delivery objectives – executing integrated organizational plans, policies and procedures and guiding the development of technical strategies to meet organizational goals with metrics in place to manage performance to plan, actions to improve, recovery plans, and communicating information at an executive level.
• Responsible for driving PE Functional Excellence; providing oversight and approval of technical approaches, products, and processes to ensure alignment with business plans and goals and compliance with command media, processes, procedures, design practices.
• Develops, leads, and executes cross-program improvement lean initiatives to meet affordability, process improvement, quality, safety, and productivity goals that include determining the root cause, shortfalls, and defining corrective actions.
• Proactively identify and adopt technologies and tools, aligned to BDS standards.
• Show a proactive and patient personality with a willingness to listen, coach, and lead the team with clear direction.
• Communicate clearly at all levels, adjusting for the audience.
• Bring creative solutions and plans to solve problems, bringing engineering excellence aligned to program priorities.
• Manage workforce talent ensuring teams are staffed with the skills needed including identifying skill gaps and working cross functionally to solve.
• Manage, motivate, recognize, and develop employees.
• Establish relationships and closely collaborate with SI&WS and Heath site functional teams including Site and Program leadership, Design Engineering, Systems Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supplier Management to ensure the program’s value stre