First-line Components Manager

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.

Location:

Mesa, AZ

• Ensure Safe Products & People – Create and maintain policies and processes that ensure safety in designs and rework instructions. Ensure that adequate oversight of designs is being performed. Engage with the team to ensure that all decisions are made with consideration of safety of product and people.
• Support Production & the Field – Prioritize work to ensure that production and field issues are addressed in an expedient manner. Weigh courses of action to best serve the production and field environment.
• Innovate for our Future – Inspire innovation on the team. Seek out and support initiatives that provide avenues for innovative work to be performed by engineering. Provide business cases to capture new work. Provide engineers the space and opportunity to creatively engage in innovative design solutions.
• Keep Commitments – Manage the workload to ensure that work is being done within budget and timeframe expectations. Encourage the team to proactively bid work that can be accomplished with given resources. Find solutions when issues arise with meeting budget or schedule targets. Set quality targets and lead the team to achieve high quality work.
• Strengthen the Team – Reward, recognize, and encourage employees. Support the team by sponsoring Technical Lead Engineers, Tech Fellowship, and mentoring programs. Ensure that training needs are identified and fulfilled. Proactively implement knowledge transfer programs.
• Communicate – Provide accurate, timely, and audience-appropriate communication.
• Manages employees performing activities within multiple (2 or more) Engineering disciplines.
• Develops and executes project and process plans, implements policies and procedures and sets operational goals.
• Acquires resources for projects and processes, provides technical management of suppliers and leads process improvements.
• Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports.
• Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes.
• Manages, develops and motivates employees.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Data analysis using MS Excel, communication using MS Power Point

• Bachelor of Science Degree or higher in a relevant field of Engineering (Mechanical/Aerospace)
• Internal candidates must have at least one year of experience in a leadership role (team leader, temp manager, large scale cross functional project/program management, or formal manager experience) OR have completed the Boeing internal course “Exploring Leadership”.
• External candidates must have at least one year of experience in a leadership role (team leader, temp manager, large scale cross functional project/program management, or formal manager experience).
• 5+ years of engineering experience.
• 5+ years’ experience in a Rotorcraft Engineering discipline.

• Highly preferred: current, active U.S. Secret security clearance
• 2+ years leading technical teams.
• Familiarity with configuration management, producibility, and manufacturing engineering practices.
• Proven experience in structural design of rotor blades and rotor hub systems
• Knowledge of manufacturing techniques and production planning
• Experience using Earned Value Management (EVM) principles and tools
• Proficiency with advanced data analytics platforms (e.g., Tableau)
• Familiarity with digital collaboration and documentation tools (e.g., Confluence)

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

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.

This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

This position is for 1st shift.

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