# KC-135 First Line Engineering Manager

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: Oklahoma City, OK
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 128,350 – 173,650
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

The Boeing Legacy Tankers (KC-135 and KDC/KC-10) organization is seeking a First Line Engineering Manager to direct a multi-discipline team responsible for aircraft integration and structural analysis across aging commercial-derivative military platforms.

The role requires managing a team of engineers, providing technical authority across structures, mechanical, avionics, and fuel systems engineering, and ensuring seamless integration and execution of sustainment and development efforts.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead and grow a team of engineers including technical leads and senior staff, managing competency development, staffing forecasts, and redeployment to address skill gaps.

- Align engineering managers on program priorities, technical scopes, integration requirements, and drive collaborative execution across cross-functional teams and business units.

- Oversee engineering delivery and control-account management within sustainment and modification portfolios.

- Provide regular technical briefings to senior Boeing leadership and external customers, addressing program status, risks, and technical challenges.

- Identify and resolve production engineering issues by championing technical improvements that enhance product quality and reduce non-conformances.

- Lead airworthiness modification team efforts and serve as primary liaison on military certification and regulatory coordination.

- Manage proposal development activities including technical scope definition, labor estimating, and statement of work authoring.

- Define, track, and analyze key performance indicators related to team utilization, throughput, and quality; implement process enhancements to improve efficiency.

- Drive adoption of digital engineering tools and process integration (PLM, configuration management, automated health metrics).

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Candidates must have 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) OR have completed the Boeing internal course Exploring Leadership”

- 10+ years of experience across all phases of support equipment development lifecycle including design, development, production, acquisition, and sustainment

- Experience with structural design principles for repair and maintenance (e.g., fatigue, damage tolerance, corrosion, stress analysis, statics, materials strength, material characteristics, repair techniques)

- Experience working with aircraft Systems Integration such as avionics, flight controls and other mechanical systems.

- Experience participating in the Engineering Non-Recurring Product Development process.

- Experience managing cost and schedule performance using Earned-Value Management (EVM) principles.

- Experience developing and maintaining relationships and partnerships with senior executives, customers, stakeholders, peers, and partners.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience in military airworthiness processes, data rights defense, and certification coordination.

- Expertise in production engineering processes including build-to-print release and factory liaison activities.

- Background in digital engineering adoption including PLM and configuration management tools.

- History of successful talent development and growing technical leadership within engineering teams.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- structural design
- aircraft systems integration
- engineering non-recurring product development
- earned-value management
- leadership

### Nice to have
- military airworthiness
- production engineering
- digital engineering
- talent development

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