Senior Site Compliance and Ethics Officer

at  Boeing

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Boeing’s Law and Global Compliance Ethics organization is seeking a Senior Site Compliance and Ethics Officer (SCEO) to support the El Segundo site and several subsidiaries in Southern California.
The SCEO will join the Business Engagement Team within the Ethics organization and will serve as the Global Compliance focal at Boeing’s El Segundo site and its Southern California’s subsidiaries: Millennium Space Systems (El Segundo), Boeing Encore Interiors (Huntington Beach and Seal Beach) and Spectrolab (Sylmar) and be responsible for proactively identifying and implementing engagement opportunities to encourage compliance, foster an open and transparent work environment, and to help create a culture of personal accountability for compliance.
The SCEO will be responsible for engaging with employees at all levels across all programs and functions at the El Segundo site and Southern California subsidiaries in an effort to prevent, detect, and respond to compliance and ethics risks. The position requires strategic thinking, strong written and oral communication skills, analytical skills, collaboration, independent judgment, and the ability to influence others. The SCEO will be based in El Segundo, but will travel on a regular basis to locations in Huntington Beach, Seal Beach and Sylmar, CA.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS (REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE):

• 5+ years of experience working in Ethics or Compliance
• 5+ years of experience working with cross functional teams
• 5+ years of experience using excellent verbal and written communication skills to communicate with leaders and colleagues
• Experience working with sensitive information and safeguarding confidential information

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS (DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE):

• Experience working in a corporate ethics and compliance department or government agency
• Experience working in a compliance/risk management role at a Boeing subsidiary
• Experience conducting risk and compliance assessments and developing business engagement plans
• Project management skills related to setting goals, priorities and executing plans
• Experience in developing and facilitating training to employees at all levels
• Advanced degree in a relevant field, such as compliance, risk management, communications, business administration, or a J.D
• Active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance. A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active

TYPICAL EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 15 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. Master+13 years’ related work experience, 19 years’ related work experience, etc.)

• Leading with integrity by promoting and empowering employees to speak-up, listening to them when they do, and guarding against retaliation
• Promoting compliance and ethics as a top priority to the site and the subsidiaries; fostering a culture where employees themselves own and embrace compliance and ethics; and providing coaching, as necessary
• Identifying ways to enhance, develop, implement, and execute compliance and ethics programs and initiatives in ways that resonate best at the El Segundo site and Southern California subsidiaries
• Communicating the importance of the Company’s Code of Conduct and how it relates to various aspects of the business
• Maintaining monitoring processes and other preventative controls to detect and prevent potential violations of the Company Code of Conduct, including violations of company policies and behavior inconsistent with company values
• Ascertaining and understanding local business priorities and implementing strategies to advance those priorities consistent with our values
• Analyzing investigations metrics, business imperatives, external factors, and observations made through engagements to develop tailored guidance and business solutions based on this analysis
• Identifying and escalating emerging risks to management and functional partners as appropriate
• Identifying and managing risks, monitoring, enforcing and evaluating the effectiveness of compliance and ethics policies and promoting an inclusive speak-up culture
• Maintaining and fostering strong constructive relationships with local leaders and other stakeholders to facilitate an effective risk culture where safety, quality and integrity are top of mind of all employees
• Partnering closely with site and subsidiary attorneys to identify localized compliance risk, identify behavioral indicators of emergent compliance risk, and develop strategies to proactively address risks before they manifest
• Ensuring timely, thorough, and quality intake of issues
• Providing guidance and direction to management and other personnel on all matters pertaining to compliance and ethics
• Researching and responding to compliance related questions from all employees
• Supporting smaller other Boeing sites in addition to their primary site and subsidiary support, which may include subsidiary support
• Overseeing a team of Ethics Ambassadors to help encourage a speak-up culture through integrated messaging about company values, engaging with employees at all levels across all programs and functions in El Segundo and at assigned subsidiaries
• Assuming additional responsibilities and performing special projects as needed
  A SCEO’s success will require collaboration with employees at all levels to identify and proactively address localized and emergent compliance risks, seek out pockets of anxiety, and amplify and reinforce expectations for compliant behavior. Establishing key partnerships with members of the site and subsidiaries’ leadership teams – specifically the site and subsidiary leaders, legal counsels, HR focals, communications teams, and other subject matter experts is critical. Success in this role will be hinged on the SCEO’s ability to develop proactive solutions to prevent, detect, and respond to localized compliance and ethics risks; to maintain a deep knowledge of compliance and ethics program strategies, policies, processes, industry trends, and best practices; and to stay up-to-date on company ethics and cultural initiatives and identify methods, practices, and tools to complement and enhance these.