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