Senior Production Engineering Manager | SLS

Senior Production Engineering Manager | SLS

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Space, Intelligence & Weapons Systems (SIWS) is seeking a Senior Production Engineering Manager to drive production excellence across large-scale aerospace structures, leading cross-functional teams, modernizing processes, and ensuring on-time, on-spec deliveries that directly enable human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit in New Orleans, LA.

This role offers a rare chance to blend legacy and innovation: steward a facility with decades of mission-critical experience while implementing advanced manufacturing, quality, and systems-thinking to improve throughput, reduce risk, and accelerate Artemis missions.  If you thrive on high-visibility impact, mentoring engineering talent, and solving complex production challenges at scale, you’ll help shape the next chapter of human spaceflight from one of its most iconic manufacturing hubs.

Join a storied center of American spaceflight — the Michoud Assembly Facility, a historic manufacturing powerhouse that helped build the Saturn V and now fabricates the core stages that propel NASA’s Artemis Space Launch System (SLS).  Apply to lead production engineering where history meets mission-critical innovation — make Michoud’s next era your legacy.

*Potential Signing Bonus for Eligible/Qualified Candidate*

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage, develop and motivate a multi-discipline production engineering organization supporting SLS hardware production, assembly, integration, and test.
• Partner with Integrated Product Team (IPT) to support and improve the production system.
• Develop and implement production engineering strategies, processes, and metrics to meet schedule, quality, and cost objectives.
• Oversee manufacturing readiness reviews, production readiness verifications, and key gating events for flight hardware.
• Drive closure of non-conformances, corrective/preventive actions, and root cause investigations in coordination with quality and engineering teams.
• Collaborate with design engineering to ensure producibility, manufacturability, and maintainability are addressed during design maturation and change implementation.
• Manage supplier engineering engagement to ensure supplier process control, flow-down requirements, and delivery performance.
• Establish and maintain production plans, resource forecasts, and capacity requirements; align staffing and site footprint to program needs.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives (Lean, Six Sigma, DFMA) to raise productivity, reduce cycle time, and improve yields.
• Ensure production engineering documentation, work instructions, and configuration control are maintained and compliant with program/project standards.
• Communicate program status, technical risks, and mitigation plans to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop engineering staff; foster a culture of safety, quality, accountability, and innovation.
• Motivated, demonstrated ability to drive daily execution, strong communicator.
• Strengths in creating daily effective cadence to deliver results.
• Understanding of escalation chain and where it can be influenced.
• Skilled leader with ability to enable effective communication with customers and other organizations.
• Ability to build trust through diplomacy and strategic messaging while balancing organizational goals with stakeholder needs.
• The ideal candidate will excel in both the engineering technical acumen/excellence required for this role while being an engaging and motivating people leader, including committing to:
  • Prioritizing the development and career growth of his/her employees and team.
  • Inspiring and empowering your team through collaboration, communication, and caring.
  • Building and nurturing an inclusive culture by seeking out different perspectives, speaking up with ideas or concerns, and actively listening to teammates and stakeholders.
  • Ensuring a psychologically safe work environment where employees can freely and proactively raise safety, quality, and schedule concerns as soon as they are known.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science from an accredited course of study, in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), computer science, data science, mathematics, physics, chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement.
• 10+ years of experience working in an engineering, manufacturing, and/or production environment OR 5+ years of experience in a leadership role (i.e., manager, project manager,