Senior Quality Manager

Senior Quality Manager

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is looking for a Senior Quality Manager - Skill Staffing Leader to oversee the BCA Quality Team in Everett, WA.

As a Senior Quality Manager - Skill Staffing Leader, you will collaborate with staffing focal points across various BCA functions. Your main responsibility will be to work across Quality functions and programs, focusing on employee acquisition, redeployment, and other employee movements, including skill and career development.

In this position, you will oversee employee activities across multiple (2 or more) Quality Management Job Families, while managing, developing, and motivating employees and first-level managers. You will be responsible for developing and executing business plans, policies, and procedures, as well as formulating organizational and technical strategies. Additionally, you will provide education and coaching on the Quality System, acquire and manage resources, and lead process improvements. Building and maintaining relationships/partnerships with customers, peers, partners, suppliers, and direct reports will be essential.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional integrity and authenticity, possess strong strategic thinking abilities, and be a continual learner with a talent for effectively transferring knowledge. You will be an experienced collaborator with a proven track record of successful cross-functional engagements that highlight innovative thinking. We are looking for individuals whose professional experience enable working effectively with teams across various business units, functions, and geographies to develop strategies, conduct decision analysis, create innovative business models, and implement process improvements. Ideally, you will possess high emotional intelligence and empathy, allowing you to leverage insights from your professional journey to enhance both projects and the development of those around you.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of senior managers, managers and employees

• Partner with other functions to ensure processes used to manage, develop and improve areas are effective and integrated

• Develop and execute business plans, policies and procedures

• Monitor and act to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team

• Provide education and coach on connecting the quality systems and processes 

• Understand business objectives, strategies, and conditions affecting all areas of the program

• Develop and maintain partnering relationships with program leaders, quality stakeholders, peers, partners, and direct reports

• Communicate and convey quality status and actions to improve

• Lead process improvement activities for the team

This position is expected to be 100% onsite.  The selected candidate will be required to work onsite in Everett, WA.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 5+ years of experience in Aerospace, Manufacturing, Quality, or experience in a regulated industry

• 5+ years of experience leading teams in a formal and /or informal leadership role

• 3+ years of experience leading systematic problem solving

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 3+ years of experience in a Quality job role

• 3+ years of experience developing and maintaining relationships and partnerships with senior executives, customers, stakeholders, peers and partners

• Experience working as a skill team focal

• Experience in a production-related discipline such as Manufacturing, Quality, Production, Engineering, Supplier Management, and/or Supplier Quality

• Experience in cross-functional leadership, collaborative problem solving, building lasting relationships & proficiency in written and verbal communication

Relocation:
This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
 

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

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent.  Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities. 

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