Mission Systems Surveillance & Self Protect Project Engineer, E-7 (Lead, Senior)

at  Boeing

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Boeing Defense Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity on the E-7 Mission System Program for a Surveillance & Self Protect Project Engineer in Tukwila, WA.
In this position you will work closely with the program managers, contracts, estimating, supply chain, engineering, suppliers and/or customers to execute the program. This is a growth role, with the expectation that broad skills and experience gained here would be applicable to a variety of other current and future
contracts. The selected candidate will be responsible for providing engineering leadership to a team representing multiple skill areas, which may include internal and external resources and customers.
As a Mission Systems Surveillance & Self Protect Project Engineer, the Project Engineer will have the responsibility of providing Engineering leadership to multi-skilled teams developing innovative solutions to field the next generation
of AEW&C aircraft. The successful candidate will plan, organize, coordinate and manage the resources required through metrics and in JIRA over the life of the project in a collaborative and fast-paced environment. This is an excellent opportunity to provide technical, business, and integration leadership for the development and execution of the project and team plans.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS (REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
• 5+ years of experience working across multiple engineering disciplines
• Availability to travel up to 10% of your time.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS (DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE):

• 10+ or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 3+ Years of experience in an Agile Lead Role: Product Manager or Product Owner
• Experience with System and Subsystem levels of Requirements generation
• 3+ Years of experience with Product Management: schedule and cost management
• Familiarity with tools such as VersionOne and/or JIRA
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate/present to Boeing and customer teams and leaders.
• Ability to collaborate with team members and develop execution plans for deliverables.
• Experience with commercial airplane certification.
• Experience collaborating and integrating various functional groups such as manufacturing, engineering and supplier management.
• Experience with metric creating tools (e.g., Tableau)
• FAA certification

TYPICAL EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

Senior (Level 4):Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 9+ years related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+4 years related work experience, Master+7 years related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.
Lead (Level 5):Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 14+ years related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+9 years related work experience, Master+12 years related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

• Provides the Engineering leadership to teams representing multiple skill areas, which may include internal and external resources and customers.
• Resolve technical issues through coordination with engineering and the Chief Engineer.
• Manage deliverables by defining plans for risk mitigation, issues, and opportunities; and monitoring baseline plans to assess project performance, productivity, and lessons
• Brief customers and leadership on program status; risks, issues, and opportunities; and help needed.
• Develops statement of work (SOW) and/or supplier statement of work (SSOW) to satisfy research and development, ongoing and new business requirements.
• Identifies and manages changes to SOW and/or SSOW and assesses the impact of those changes, and incorporates changes into statement of work.
• Identifies performance metrics.
• Implements corrective actions to improve performance.
• Provides technical, business and integration leadership for the development and execution of the project or team plan.
• Plan, identify, prioritize, and coordinate resources required over the life of the program that requires coordination with multiple scrum teams, external resources, and customers
• Track progress to cost, schedule, and technical performance using Boeing Program Management Best Practices (PMBP) and Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Participate in PI planning
• Define releases and program increments
• Drive system demos & PI demo