Business Ops Specialist

Job Overview

This posting is for a contract assignment and is not a full‑time employment offer with Boeing. Candidates selected for roles will be employed as contract workers through a Boeing approved 3rd party for the duration of the specified project.

The M&PT Organization is looking for a Mid‑Level Business Operations Specialist to join the St. Louis Materials and Standards / Obsolescence Engineering Team in Berkeley, Missouri. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative and diverse team. We are committed to provide our team equal opportunity for growth in a stable work environment. We encourage every teammate to feel empowered to bring their best through creating an impact in production systems, innovation, and diversity as this drives a positive culture through transparency, safety, quality, and respect.

This position will create metrics, presentations, data visualization; lead cross‑division/site projects; and assist leaders in running the business. The selected candidate will work with various cross‑functional partners to communicate risk, actions, information, and decisions to ensure the success of our Boeing Defense and Space program customers.

• Assist in the development and integration of programs, plans, strategies, and processes to meet business goals for authorization, such as sourcing strategy for commitment of work, schedule imperatives, deployment analysis, and impact mitigation
• Collect, analyze, and review complex quantitative scheduling and other project data to report project performance via both written reports and a series of charts and graphs to pictorially display data trends and levels
• Knowledgeable and proficient in tracking program and project effectiveness using Earned Value Management metrics
• Identify risk and opportunity potential, develop mitigation planning, maintain status reports, and support the analysis and coordination of results in partnership with the accounting organization to achieve business plan and forecast targets
• Collect, organize and provide data according to established processes within the management system to maintain status of programs, customer and supplier commitments and compliance
• Provide assistance with collecting engineering data for proposal responses
• Support management of team program and project metrics, including analysis of trends
• Familiar with using standard Project Schedule Tracking tools to develop and manage complex Gantt charts ensuring all program and project tasks are organized and tracked in an efficient manner
• Recommend and coordinate information to support engineering business cases and partner with functional leaders to develop action plans for projects
• Support requirements for Adaptive Planning forecasting, system loads, and reporting
• Provide coaching and guidance to less experienced personnel

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret clearance Post‑Start is required.

• 5+ years of experience with collecting, analyzing and reporting process or project metrics
• 5+ years of experience with the Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel applications for data analysis and presentations
• 3+ years of experience assisting and leading teams in business processes, including establishing engineering baselines and projections for large‑scale projects
• 3+ years of experience developing presentations and presenting information to various levels of management
• 2+ years of experience in an analyst position managing large‑scale projects

• Familiarity with Boeing Defense and Space and Boeing Global Services programs and organization
• Proficiency with using Boeing risk / opportunity processes and tools, including BORIS
• Expertise with Boeing Program Management Best Practices (PMBP)
• Proficiency building strong relationships
• Highly motivated self‑starter and self‑directed learner with a creative mind, and high attention to detail
• Comfortable with large volumes of complex data and present actionable findings…