Deputy Chief Engineer - Millennium Space Systems

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company, delivers affordable, high-performance space systems for exacting customers. At Millennium, you will be part of a close-knit team working on exciting technological problems. We work in an open environment where ideas are shared across all disciplines, and there are ample opportunities for advancement based on excellence. Superstars are welcome.

At Millennium, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that's welcoming, respectful and innovative, with great opportunities for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Job Summary

As the company’s Deputy Chief Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing space, ground and network systems and technologies that perform cutting-edge, high performance space missions. Our systems provide critical capabilities to national security and scientific missions. The function of the Deputy Chief Engineer is to augment the Chief Engineer by performing independent review of our designs as well as help guide technology development.

This could come via formal design reviews, engineering review boards, risk meetings, or informal meetings such as to help trade ideas and perform make/buy decisions.

The ideal candidate has significant experience in the development and production of space systems and has learned lessons from their usage on orbit. Such experience must be cross-disciplinary, including EMI, RF, electronics, GNC, structures, systems engineering, manufacturing, assembly, test and on-orbit operations. Methods to perform value stream mapping, "lean out" processes, and improve the flow should be in the candidate's toolbox.

The candidate must be able to coalesce information, distill it, and come to recommendations for technical solutions, while balancing reasonable cost and schedule pressures. The candidate must be well-versed developing briefings and presenting to high level company officials and government sponsors. The candidate should be comfortable at finding compromises between customer desires and requirements. The ideal candidate has experience with proposals and estimating levels of effort for development.

Position Responsibilities:

• Perform independent review of designs, development plans, and test plans

• Assess risks

• Synthesize information across multiple disciplines

• Provide recommendations for technical solutions to issues

• Lead ad hoc teams to diagnose problems and find solutions

• Summarize issues, document issues and report concerns

• Brief high level officials and customers

• Provide praise for a job well done

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline, Master’s degree or PhD is a plus

• 15+ years of experience in satellite design, development, test, and operations across multiple flight projects/program

• Demonstrated breadth and depth across multiple spacecraft engineering disciplines

• Demonstrated leadership of ad hoc, cross-functional teams

• Experience taking a product from concept/proposal phase through prototyping, launch and operation

• Broad understanding of the spacecraft component supply chain and broad network of vendor relationships across the supply chain

• Experience performing make/buy trades

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Ability to travel

Drug Free Workplace:

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company, offers a very competitive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, and 401k plan.

Summary Pay Range:
Level 6: $210,800 - $310,000

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