# Senior Structures Design Engineer – Wing & Empennage

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: North Charleston, SC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,600 - $158,400
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Structures Design Engineer to join our Wing & Empennage Life Cycle Product Team at our North Charleston, SC location.

As a Senior Structures Design Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, integrating, and documenting structural requirements to establish the wing and/or empennage design. You will use 3-D Computer Aided Design tools and/or other design methods to provide product definition to other engineering groups, production operations, suppliers, and external customers throughout the product lifecycle.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading performance, integration, and analysis of tests to validate and verify the structural design meets requirements and specifications

- Managing supplier development, test, and production activities and coordinating with suppliers to optimize the design and achieve program goals

- Assisting with investigation of emerging technologies to develop concepts for future product designs to meet projected requirements

- Active leadership in the growth of a new organization, performing lead-level duties, mentorship, and training of developing team members

- Developing certification-related documentation to support CFR Part 25 Type Cert projects

- Collaborating and performing oversight on projects with international partners/suppliers

- Applying Part 21 and Part 25 Code of Federal Regulations knowledge and facilitating interactions with Federal Regulators

Requirements:

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus on Mechanical, Civil, Aerospace, Aeronautical, or Material Sciences)

- 9+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

- 5+ years of experience with aircraft structural design

- 3+ years of experience with design of composite structures

- Prior experience with aircraft, heavy structures, hardware systems, or interiors manufacturing/production systems

Preferred qualifications:

- 7+ years of experience working on wing or empennage primary structure

- 5+ years of experience performing the basic qualifications in a lead capacity working under minimal direction

- Experience designing and qualifying composite primary structures, including laminate design, ply-drop strategies, and structural strength considerations

- Hands-on experience with fabrication of metallic and composite structures

- Current or prior DER/AR/E-UM

We offer a competitive salary range of $129,600 - $158,400 and a comprehensive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Aeronautical Engineering
- Material Sciences
- Aircraft Structural Design
- Composite Structures Design

### Nice to have
- Wing or Empennage Primary Structure
- Lead Capacity
- Composite Primary Structures Design
- Metallic and Composite Structures Fabrication
- DER/AR/E-UM

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