About the position
The Boeing Company is in search of a Space Launch System Materials & Processes Michoud Production Support First-Line Leader to join our team in New Orleans, LA. The M&P team directly supports the production statement of work at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans through providing non-conformance report (NCR) reviews, engineering specification interpretation and support, temporary environmental control area certifications, and critical processes qualification and support. This first-line manager is responsible to maintain the internal and external customer relationships associated with execution of the M&P statement of work while assuring engineering excellence and first-time quality in the team's tooling reviews, test plan development and execution, production readiness support, and NCR resolution.
Responsibilities
- Manages, oversees, and coordinates the daily operations of a highly skilled engineering team performing activities within multiple engineering disciplines.
- Responsible for staffing team with appropriate skills to execute statement of work within allocated budget.
- Manages cost, schedule, and technical performance for team.
- Conveys organizational messages to facilitate the accomplishment of work-group, project or process goals and effectively communicates prioritization of work.
- Provide flow down of policies, goals, and expectations from upper levels of management.
- Listen to employee concerns and suggestions and enable resolution or be a conduit of this information to peer and upper management.
- Defines, communicates, and presents metrics on team performance towards program major milestones to senior program leadership.
- Develops and maintains partnerships and relationships with internal and external customers, stakeholders, peers and direct reports; Networks with the full Boeing Enterprise to support execution of team statement of work.
- Develops and executes project and process plans, implements policies and procedures and sets operational goals.
- Provides oversight and management approval of technical approaches, engineering products and processes.
- Creates proposal impacts for team for task orders, change requests, and other new scope of work.
- Coaches, counsels, mentors, and provides developmental opportunities and job assignments to enhance employee performance and expand capabilities.
- Aligns Technical Lead Engineers with mentees to assure transition of knowledge is effective in support of team operational and employee career goals.
- Acquires, deploys and assigns personnel to meet project and operational objectives.
- Must be able to work effectively on a development program with multi-discipline teams, including application of engineering judgment to balance requirements, risks, and costs, and be able to negotiate and communicate effectively.
- Execute large volume of work to support critical program needs including multi-shift coverage required to execute production support SOW.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher.
- 3+ years' experience leading or managing an engineering project or team.
- Experience working across organizations and cross-functional groups to ensure project coordination, implementation, and completion.
Nice-to-haves
- 5+ years technical leadership experience.
- 2+ years Cost Account Manager (CAM) experience.
- Experience with Boeing program management processes.
- Experience with Boeing's Quality Management System.
- Experience providing specialized engineering experience on a development program.
- Project management experience.
- Experience with Space Launch System or NASA programs.
- Materials & Processes experience.
- RCCA (root cause and corrective action) experience.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
- Health insurance.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Health savings accounts.
- Retirement savings plans.
- Life and disability insurance programs.
- Programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
