Senior Flight Test Engineering Manager
About The Position
The Boeing Company’s Boeing Test and Evaluation organization is seeking a Senior Flight Test Engineering Manager to lead and grow a high-performance flight test engineering team in Seattle, Washington. The role combines technical leadership, program management, and hands-on flight test execution supporting developmental, certification, and production acceptance testing for Mobility & Surveillance programs, including KC-46, E-7, P-8, and support to VC-25B. The manager leads a multidisciplinary team and oversees flight test programs from requirements through reporting, ensuring alignment with schedules, budgets, technical parameters, safety processes, and regulatory requirements. The position works with flight crews, flight operations, systems engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, military counterparts, customers, and regulatory authorities to deliver safe, timely, and cost-effective flight test campaigns. The position is expected to be 100% onsite in Seattle, Washington, and requires travel to test sites as needed and work in operational environments such as airfields and hangars.
Requirements
- Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance; a clearance active within the past 24 months is considered active. U.S. citizenship is required for this clearance.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or a directly related non-U.S. equivalent qualification.
- 10 or more years of progressive flight test engineering experience.
- 5 or more years of experience in a leadership or management role.
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing flight test campaigns on transport-category or large civil aircraft, rotorcraft, or equivalent complex platforms.
- Proven experience interfacing with customer or regulatory certification authorities such as the FAA, USAF, or USN, or equivalent authorities.
- Experience briefing senior leadership and external stakeholders.
- Ability and willingness to travel to test sites as required and work in operational environments, including airfields and hangars.
- Successful completion of the Company's Conflict of Interest assessment process.
- Must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements as a U.S. Person.
- Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with complex developmental testing and/or a large flight test organization.
- Familiarity with systems engineering, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and requirements management tools.
- Experience with safety management systems (SMS), formal hazard analyses (FHA, PHA), and structured risk management processes.
- Experience managing cross-site or multidisciplinary teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary flight test engineering team, including flight test engineers, instrumentation, data analysis, and support engineers.
- Plan, execute, and oversee flight test programs from requirements through reporting, ensuring alignment with program schedules, budgets, and technical parameters.
- Ensure compliance with FAA, military, and other regulatory requirements; coordinate certification activities and regulatory interfaces as required.
- Establish and maintain flight test safety processes and risk assessments, enforce a strict safety culture, and support continuous improvement.
- Drive cross-functional problem resolution during flight test execution and post-flight analysis; escalate and communicate technical status and risks to senior leadership.
- Develop and manage budgets, schedules, and performance metrics for flight test programs; support proposal and planning activities for new programs.
- Represent flight test engineering in program-level reviews and customer or regulatory technical reviews.
- Foster collaboration with flight crews, flight operations, systems engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers to achieve program objectives.
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.
- Relocation assistance based on candidate eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
