Chief Program Engineer – E&IS Integrated Missions

Chief Program Engineer – E&IS Integrated Missions

Company:

The Boeing Company

Electronics & Intelligence Systems (E&IS) is a growing business within Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s (BDS’s) Space, Intelligence, and Weapon Systems (SI&WS).  We focus on delivering complex solutions in the most challenging environments on Earth.  E&IS seeks a Chief Program Engineer (CPE) to join our team in Huntington Beach, California, to support the Integrated Missions portfolio area which defines, designs, and delivers combined platforms, payloads, and integrated technology solutions for complex missions across various domains. IM includes Proprietary programs, Extra Large Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) future missions/payloads, Liquid Robotics subsidiary, and Acoustics Systems focused on Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) processing.

This CPE will lead the technical execution of one of our special programs. If you are a motivated senior engineer with exceptional communication skills (oral and written), look forward to a dynamic work environment with a broad range of engineers from many skill areas, and aspire to further develop technical leadership abilities, we are looking for you.

Position Responsibilities:

• Ensures technical conduct, progress, performance, and results are executed in compliance with established requirements, plans, and program charter.

• Is directly responsible and accountable to the Program Manager and has an independent reporting path into the E&IS Engineering Function for (1) technical excellence and integrity of design, development, production, support, supportability, and mission success and (2) to support program cost and schedule baselines, and design-to-cost targets and cost reduction initiatives, while ensuring the safety and technical excellence and integrity of the products.

• Provides senior technical leadership for the program and associated proposals, and be the senior technical interface to customers and suppliers. Represents the perspective of system users and customers in program reviews.

• Establishes a culture of proactive technical oversight, risk management and rapid issue resolution, providing alternative paths for issue resolution and an open dialogue on technical issues. Actively leads and participates in the program Agile work process.

• Regularly assesses the baseline program technical execution plan against technology, complexity, and risk-adjusted benchmarks of similar engineering efforts.

• Advises the program manager and indirect reporting paths if the baseline plan's scope, tasks, inherent processes, resources, deliverables, and/or risks are inconsistent with those benchmarks.

• Prevents traveled technical risk and ensure that technical risks and issues are driven rapidly to closure.

• Oversees the Responsible Engineer (RE) process, where engineers and engineering leadership are assigned over the systems, subsystems, and components for each program.

• Implements and enforces engineering functional excellence in people, processes, tools, and practices; drive productivity improvements through the use of the lean principles/discipline; and share best practices and lessons learned.

• Establishes a culture of technical expertise, service, and availability within the technical community and across the enterprise.

• Works with functional counterparts to understand and ensure process inputs and outputs are clearly defined to enable products and services to meet requirements and be delivered on schedule and within costs.

• Monitors Enterprise technology strategy activities and provide inputs to Enterprise Technology Strategy to ensure technology insertion and application is relevant to the program. Partner with subject matter experts and technology experts in understanding technology development and integration into current state and future goals for increased functionality, performance, testability, verification and validation. Technical oversight of research and development efforts to include customer and internally funded.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at the listed location.

This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret/SCI and Special Program Access Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer