Production Engineering Manager - Tooling Organization

Production Engineering Manager - Tooling Organization

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Salt Lake (BSL) Engineering organization is recruiting a K-level manager to lead the Tooling organization. This leader will provide technical and people leadership across Tool Engineering, Tooling Manufacturing Engineering (ME), Scheduling & Control, and Tool Fabrication. The successful candidate will blend hands-on technical aptitude with strong leadership to develop, inspire, and sustain a high-performing tooling value stream supporting both production and development activities.

Desired Skills and Attributes for this role:

• Proven ability to develop and sustain customer and stakeholder relationships.

• Strong communicator with experience presenting technical approaches and status to leadership.

• Track record of driving process improvements and implementing scalable production solutions.

• Hands-on technical credibility combined with effective people leadership and talent development.

• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with mixed production and development activity.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and set engineering and tooling design standards, processes, and technical approaches for the tooling organization.

• Maintain close connections with other BSL engineering teams and manufacturing operations to ensure tooling products and services meet customer needs and schedule commitments.

• Monitor and ensure compliance to first-time quality, technical requirements, process standards, customer requirements, and scheduling constraints.

• Lead cross-functional improvement projects to: stabilize and enhance production system efficiency, enable production rate increases, incorporate product/process changes into the production system, and support future development work.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal customers, stakeholders, peers, and business partners; leverage these networks for input on key projects and initiatives.

• Ensure effective scheduling and control practices, and align fabrication capacity with production demands.

• Manage, develop, and motivate employees to achieve their best as individuals and as a team.

• Identify training needs and promote professional development opportunities to grow team capability and succession readiness.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or equivalent.

• Minimum 3 years of professional engineering experience.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 8+ years of aerospace engineering experience in a production engineering environment.

• Experience leading or managing engineering teams, preferably within Tool Engineering or Tooling ME.

• Demonstrated knowledge of composite and metal fabrication/assembly and tooling systems.

• Knowledge and understanding of ETOM (Enterprise Tooling Outsource Management)

• Knowledge and understanding on Tooling Value Stream Management metrics

• Experience working with cross-functional teams (manufacturing, quality, supply chain, program management).

• Strong problem-solving skills, initiative, and ability to influence across functions and levels.

Conflict of Interest:
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies. 

Shift:

This role is primarily first shift; however, there may be additional shift requirements to support program objectives.

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