Engineering Change Control & Scheduling Manager

Spirit AeroSystems • Wichita, KS

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About The Position

This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units. Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, including fuselages, pylons, nacelles, and wing components, using composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

The Engineering Change Control & Scheduling Manager leads the Engineering Change Control and Engineering Scheduling teams. The role oversees change-control and work-statement processes, engineering release schedules, SAP projects and schedules, reporting, staffing, and cross-functional coordination. The manager supports program commitments and milestones, ensures changes to configuration baselines are controlled and traceable, and leads improvements to processes, tools, and team performance.

Requirements

• Experience leading employees, teams, or projects, including establishing priorities, coordinating workloads, and delivering results.
• Working knowledge of engineering change processes, configuration baselines, work statements, and change traceability.
• Experience using enterprise systems and reporting tools to manage schedules, records, and performance.
• Ability to identify risks, resolve process issues, and coordinate actions across multiple functions.
• Strong communication, organizational, and analytical skills, including the ability to communicate status and concerns clearly to employees, stakeholders, and leadership.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience as a people manager.
• Experience with SAP project creation and maintenance, engineering release schedules, BCCM requests, and gIWS/DWS work statements.
• Experience supporting Program Change Boards, customer requirements, audits, and aerospace quality processes.
• Demonstrated success improving process flow, schedule performance, data accuracy, or change-control compliance.
• Experience in engineering change control, configuration management, engineering scheduling, program planning, or a related aerospace or manufacturing function.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop Engineering Change Control and Engineering Scheduling employees through performance management, training, work assignments, and succession planning.
• Establish team priorities, balance workloads, maintain adequate coverage, identify staffing and capacity needs, and escalate constraints.
• Oversee the creation, coordination, tracking, and closure of Baseline Control and Change Management (BCCM) requests and gIWS/DWS work statements.
• Ensure work statements and change packages are reviewed throughout their lifecycle for completeness, accuracy, coordination, supporting documentation, and process compliance.
• Oversee administration of internal engineering change numbers and maintenance of the change-numbering log.
• Ensure engineering changes to established configuration baselines follow approved change-control processes, with complete records, decisions, implementation status, and closure evidence.
• Oversee creation and maintenance of SAP projects and associated design and manufacturing schedules based on work statements, approved scope, and scheduling changes.
• Monitor engineering release schedules, identify potential delinquencies, and coordinate recovery actions to improve predictability and support program milestones.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of engineering change status, release schedules, workload, performance metrics, and emerging risks.
• Represent both teams in Program Change Boards, program reviews, audits, and other applicable forums, and coordinate resulting actions through completion.
• Partner with Engineering, Program Management, Configuration Management, Data Management, Engineering Data Control and Release, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Contracts, Finance, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and support approved change implementation.
• Maintain standard work, work instructions, training, and process controls; lead continuous improvement in change management, scheduling, reporting, and tool usage.
• Promote safety, quality, people focus, trust, ownership, and innovation through daily leadership and decision-making.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Eligible employees may enroll in health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and programs providing paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Eligible Kansas team members may qualify for a $5,000 Kansas aviation tax credit for up to five years.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed