# Senior Production Engineering Manager - Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) & Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3)

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $170,000 - $230,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace

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## Description

Join Boeing Defense, Space & Security's elite Space, Intelligence & Weapon Systems team in Huntsville, AL as our next Senior Production Engineering Manager!

Step into a pivotal leadership role driving innovation and excellence in the heart of our cutting-edge Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) portfolio. You'll spearhead production engineering efforts for the renowned Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) program, leading a high-energy team dedicated to advancing production rate readiness and operational success.

As a Senior Production Engineering Manager at Boeing, you'll be at the forefront,championing continuous improvement, guiding diverse teams, and influencing key outcomes with precision communication and a visionary mindset.

**Position Responsibilities:**

- Lead production engineering (PE) ensuring execution of SOW aligned to quality, safety, cost & delivery objectives

- Provide oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes to ensure alignment with business plans and goals

- Drive continuous improvement strategies embedded within the organizational culture to advance LEAN across the value stream

- Show a proactive and patient personality with a willingness to listen, coach, and lead the team with clear direction

- Communicate clearly at all levels, adjusting for the audience

- Bring creative solutions and plans to solve problems, bringing engineering excellence aligned to program priorities

- Lead execution of ‘start right’ production engineering, support gate reviews, proposal reviews, business capture, and future factory activities

- Manage workforce talent ensuring teams are staffed with the skills needed

- Develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports

**Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):**

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement

- 7+ years of experience in aerospace, automotive, robotics, or similar industry

- 7+ years of experience in Production Engineering, Structures Design and/or Analytical Engineering or a combination of these experiences

- 7+ years of experience managing people, programs, and budgets

- 3+ years of experience in engineering senior management

- Experience leading or managing large or complex teams of managers and/or non-management employees

**Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):**

- Experience working & collaborating with a cross-functional team of touch labor, engineers, and managers

- Proficiency with MESci, Aurora precedence networking tool, Model Based Work Instructions (MBI) development

- Experience with high-rate production systems and demonstrated successful major rate increases

- Experience implementing process controls for error-proofing (poka-yoke, no fault forward) within high-rate production systems

- Understanding of electro-mechanical assembly production, calibration, and test

- Understanding of circuit card assembly (CCA) production and test

- Experience in collaborating and working with union members

- Experience with constraint-based schedule development and maintenance

- Bachelor of Engineering Degree with production engineering experience, knowledge of factory operations, manufacturing capabilities (e.g., composites, structures), and data needed for defining delivery configurations

- Ability to create an environment of inclusion, transparency, and trust, executing with strong values

- Proactively and quickly makes sense of complex issues and responding effectively to complex and ambiguous situations

- Strong communication skills, with ability to communicate verbally and present clearly at all levels, adjusting for the audience

- Familiarity with One Boeing Production System (One-BPS)

- Domain knowledge in production engineering best practices

- Domain knowledge leading Model Based Engineering (MBE), Design for Assembly (DFA), Designing for Manufacturing (DFM), and Design for Affordability (DFA)

- Demonstrated skills in Risk Management and Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) efforts

- Cost Account Management using Boeing processes and procedures, including Earned Value Management (EVM)

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs

- Paid and unpaid time away from work

**Requirements:**

- US Citizenship required for US Security Clearance

- Interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required

## Skills

### Required
- Production Engineering
- Structures Design
- Analytical Engineering
- Leadership
- Communication

### Nice to have
- MESci
- Aurora precedence networking tool
- Model Based Work Instructions (MBI) development
- High-rate production systems
- Process controls for error-proofing

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