Senior Production Engineering Manager

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · North Charleston, SC

This role is for a Senior Production Engineering Manager at Boeing, focusing on leading manufacturing engineering teams in Final Assembly for the 787 program. The core responsibilities involve ensuring a world-class Boeing Production System, eliminating waste, and achieving first-pass quality. The role requires strong leadership, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills, with experience in high-paced production environments and a focus on continuous improvement, safety, and quality.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develops and implements integrated departmental plans to ensure business, technical and customer requirements are achieved
  2. Forecasts, obtains and oversees personnel, facilities, services, equipment and tools to meet project and departmental requirements
  3. Coaches, counsels, mentors and provides developmental opportunities and job assignments to enhance employee performance and expand capabilities of first-level managers and others within their department
  4. Provides on-going developmental feedback. Promotes employee recognition and builds a departmental culture that improves employee satisfaction and retains a skilled and motivated workforce
  5. Provides input on the development of departmental business and technical strategies, goals, objectives and related metrics to ensure alignment with Company vision/strategy

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or equivalent
  • 3+ years of experience leading a cross-functional team
  • 3+ years of experience developing and maintaining relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, and partners
  • 3+ years of experience communicating to employees, customers, peers and all levels of leadership

Nice to have

  • 4+ years of experience driving and implementing continuous improvement in a production facing role
  • 4+ years of experience building a safety and quality first culture
  • 4+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams in support of production operations
  • Experience with production build plan ownership, including parts/plans/people
  • Experience with BPS (Boeing Production System) principles and system health measures
  • Experience with building an organizational talent pipeline

What the JD emphasized

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
  • 3 + years of experience leading a cross-functional team.
  • 3+ years of experience developing and maintaining relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, and partners.
  • 3+ years of experience communicating to employees, customers, peers and all levels of leadership.