Spirit Defense - Senior Integrated Product Team Specialist

This role is at Spirit Aero Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, at Spirit’s Defense Business Unit (Spirit Defense). Spirit Defense is an independent supplier to the defense and space marketplace. Through innovative engineering and rapid prototyping excellence, Spirit Defense provides the capabilities, technologies and support customers need to succeed in their missions.

• Organizing and leading the IPT; establishing, executing and maintaining IPT planning (including integration with the overall program execution plan)
• Planning elements in support of the program integrated master schedule
• Conducting IPT-level change control and RIO boards and ensuring integration with the Program Change Control Board to control and update IPT technical and non-technical baselines; supporting the Program Manager in stakeholder needs management activity
• Responsible for the technical, cost, schedule, and quality performance of the Integrated Product Team end items and deliverables.
• Coordination on the identification, development and validation of IPT allocated life cycle requirements (e.g. requirements, configuration, data, contract, etc.)
• Defining build-to / buy-to-packages; ensuring affordability to allocated targets
• Maintaining EVM status and associated budgets and schedules
• Maintaining requirements compliance and product configuration (including design data delivery); validation, verification, and certification oversight for responsible end items
• Coordination with SCM on supplier selection, integration, and oversight of SOW
• Overseeing functional efforts to qualify materials, processes and suppliers (inc. first part qualification)
• Overall development and delivery of end items / products
• Integration and utilization of standards and best practices (process and tool) within the IPT and in support of cross-IPT integration.
• Ability to direct, develop, align, integrate, implement and manage IPT plans and processes.
• Ensure disciplined change control, including effectively evaluating and managing major and minor product and process changes and customer requests.
• Customer Interface, Change Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Risk Management, Affordability Management, Product Configuration Management
• Development and/or sustaining programs Earned Value Management, Developing Proposals and Estimating, Integrated Program Planning and Scheduling
• Change Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Risk Management, Affordability Management, Product Configuration Management

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 5 years of related experience or more than 10 years of experience
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Secret Security Clearance and Special Program Access (for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship)

• Engineering, supply chain, tooling, and/or manufacturing background
• Aerospace/Aviation Industry experience
• An active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
• Cross-functional project management, Experience with Integrated Product Teams (IPT's), Experience with Continuous Improvement/Lean/Six Sigma
• Supply chain and procurement process knowledge is a bonus as the IPT teams works heavily in supply chain management
• Financial Acumen, Business Acumen, Managing with Influence
• Technical Acumen (development), Interpersonal relationships and communication

This is a union-represented position.

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