Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Harnessing

Company

Millennium Space Systems, a part of Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS), focuses on national security space with missions such as missile warning and Earth observation.

As a Manager of Manufacturing Engineering, you will inspire, develop, coordinate, and lead a team of Manufacturing Engineers supporting manufacturing and supply chain. Your responsibilities include leveraging design for manufacturability and continuous improvement to deliver space‑grade harnessing hardware at a high rate and low cost while ensuring personnel safety and product reliability.

• Serve as the primary point of support for the Manufacturing Engineering team.
• Act as the liaison between design engineering, programs, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• Leverage cross‑functional relationships to identify improvement opportunities, align on priorities, and execute initiatives that reduce lead time and labor hours.
• Use data to establish, monitor, and improve manufacturing and supply chain metrics encompassing safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Enable manufacturing and supply chain autonomy by challenging requirements, simplifying work processes, and automating actions.
• Act as the technical subject‑matter expert for training requirements and capability expansion throughout manufacturing and supply chain.
• Troubleshoot and identify root causes of issues in manufacturing and supply chain processes, then implement permanent corrective actions.
• Partner with peer engineering teams to implement design changes in response to manufacturing and supply chain issues, customer challenges, new vehicle architectures, and standardization initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• At least one year of leadership experience (team leader, manager, or formal project/program management) or completion of the Boeing internal course “Exploring Leadership.”
• 3+ years in manufacturing and/or supply chain.
• Experience delivering presentations to management.
• Proficiency in data aggregation, visualization, and analysis (e.g., SQL, Excel, Power
  
  BI).
• Competence with CAD software (Solidworks/Altium preferred).
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance; U.S. citizenship required.

• Experience in the aerospace industry.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated collaboration with peers.
• 5+ years in manufacturing and/or supply chain.
• 5+ years in engineering.
• 2+ years leading a team of engineers.
• Familiarity with harness design on vehicles, products, and non‑flight hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to scale manufacturing rate capability.

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance. U.S. citizenship is mandatory; clearance may be required at Top Secret/SCI level post‑start.

Pay range for Level K: $151,300 – $222,500.

Eligible employees receive health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid/unpaid time off as per company policy.

Shift 1 (United States of America).

This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other protected characteristics. EEO is the law.

Right to Work (English). Right to Work (Spanish).