Production Engineering Manager - Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) & Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) - B Shift

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Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Space, Intelligence & Weapon Systems (SI&WS) is excited to welcome a visionary Production Engineering Manager to our team in Huntsville, AL. In this critical leadership role, you will drive Production Engineering execution across the Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) portfolio, with a sharp focus on accelerating Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) production and ensuring rate readiness excellence. You will lead a talented team responsible for production engineering activities that directly influence the success and reliability of one of the country’s most vital air defense systems.

We’re looking for a dynamic leader with proven expertise in scaling production within a fast-paced, high-rate manufacturing environment. Your strong background in implementing robust production process controls and continuous quality improvements will be key to elevating operational performance. As a skilled relationship-builder, you will connect cross-functional teams, align priorities, and champion collaboration to deliver results in a complex and rapidly evolving landscape. If you have a track record of simplifying complexity, solving tough strategic problems, mediating conflicts, and fostering cooperation amidst competing priorities, this role offers the perfect platform for you to make a profound impact on national defense capabilities.

 Position Responsibilities:

• Lead production engineering (PE) ensuring execution of SOW 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
• Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes to ensure alignment with business plans and goals and compliance with command media, processes, procedures
• Drive continuous improvement strategies embedded within the organizational culture to advance LEAN across the value stream. 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
• Lead execution of ‘start right’ production engineering, support gate reviews, proposal reviews, business capture, and future factory activities
• Manage workforce talent ensuring teams are staffed with the skills needed.  Includes Identifying skill gaps and working cross functionally to develop and deploy training, etc. to mitigate them and development of Technical Fellowships, Production Architects, and Technical Lead Engineers
• Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports. Includes establishing working relationships with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Safety, Test

Boeing First-Line Leader Assessment:

 To be considered for this position you will be required to complete an assessment as part of the selection process.  Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration. 

This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. secret clearance Post Start is required.

 Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
• At least one year of experience in a leadership role (team leader, temp manager, large scale cross functional project/program management, or formal manager experience
• 3+ years of experience in aerospace, automotive, robotics, or similar industry
• 3+ years of experience in Production Engineering, Structures Design and/or Analytical Engineering or a combination of these experiences

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): 

• 3+ years of experience managing people, programs, and budgets
• 2+ years of experience in engineering management

• Experience working & collaborating with a cross-functional team of touch labor, engineers, and managers
• Proficiency with MESci, Aurora precedence networking tool, Model Based Work Instructions (MBI) development
• Experience with high-rate production systems and demonstrated successful major rate increases
• Experience implementing process controls for error-proofing (poka-yoke, no fault forward) within high-rate production systems
• Understanding of electro-mechanical assembly production, calibration, and test
• Understanding of circuit card assembly (CCA) production and test
• Experience with constraint-based schedule development and maintenance
• Bachelor of Engineering Degree with production engineering experience, knowledge of factory operations, manufacturing capabilities (e.g., composites, structures), and data needed for defining delivery configurations (e.g., design definition, program directives, engineering drawings, change memos, wiring diagrams, schematics, functional tests, and supplier data)
• Ability to create an environment of inclusion, transparency, and trust, executing with strong values
• Proactively and quickly makes sense of complex issues and responding effectively to complex and ambiguous situations
• Strong communication skills, with ability to communicate verbally and present clearly at all levels, adjusting for the audience
• Familiarity with One Boeing Production System (One-BPS)
• Domain knowledge in production engineering best practices
• Domain knowledge leading Model Based Engineering (MBE), Design for Assembly (DFA), Designing for Manufacturing (DFM), and Design for Affordability (DFA)
• Demonstrated skills in Risk Management and Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) efforts
• Cost Account Management using Boeing processes and procedures, including Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Tool Engineering domain knowledge as a manager and Individual contributor  

Conflict of Interest:

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

Shift:

This position is for B Shift:

M-Th; 4:30pm - 3:00am

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.

Total Rewards & Pay Transparency:

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.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary pay range: $141,100 - $190,900

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