Senior Business Operations Specialist

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · Berkeley, MO +2

This role focuses on designing, coordinating, and scaling initiatives to strengthen common skill areas, employee development, and cross-functional alignment within Boeing Global Services (BGS) engineering. It involves partnering with skill leaders to create practical tools for career development and support of engineering communities, identifying and implementing platforms for career development, producing guides and toolkits, facilitating sessions for pain point identification, tracking program metrics, and developing content for a newsletter.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with BGS skill leaders to define and prioritize common skill domain, competency frameworks and development goals
  2. Create and maintain forums (virtual and/or in-person) for skill leaders to present initiatives, share learned lessons, and coordinate cross-functional efforts
  3. Identify, evaluate, and help implement platforms and tools (learning management, mentoring/mentee matching, digital libraries, career-mapping tools) that enhance career development for individual contributors
  4. Produce templates, guides, and toolkits to help skill leaders deliver consistent development experiences (e.g., onboarding for new hires, competency checklists)
  5. Facilitate working sessions to surface common pain points and capture scalable solutions across skill populations

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in program coordination, talent development, or engineering workforce development, preferably within aerospace or a large engineering organization
  • Experience working with technical leaders and cross-functional teams to design and implement development programs
  • Experience with learning platforms, and career path frameworks
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; experience producing newsletters, training materials, and executive briefings
  • Project management skills and experience tracking program metrics, driving outcomes, and managing multiple stakeholders
  • Ability to influence without direct authority and to build strong working relationships across multiple skill leaders

Nice to have

  • Prior experience within Boeing, Functional Chief Engineer, or BGS organizations
  • Experience with common engineering tools and digital-engineering workflows
  • Experience with mentoring programs, coaching, or formal instructor/facilitator roles
  • Comfort with change management and adoption of new platforms

What the JD emphasized

  • design and implement development programs
  • learning platforms
  • career path frameworks
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Project management skills
  • managing multiple stakeholders
  • Ability to influence without direct authority