Senior Project Engineer

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · Seal Beach, CA

Senior Project Engineer for Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) Out-of-Production (OoP) Systems Design Engineering (DE) team. Role focuses on leading complex safety projects, chairing technical review boards, and ensuring aircraft meet safety and regulatory standards. Requires strong engineering background, aerospace industry experience, and project management experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Restructure and Chair the Airplane Level Safety Technical Review Board (ALSTRB).
  2. Works with the OoP Chief Program Engineer (CPE) office to lead complex (cross model and/or cross system) Continued Operational Safety Program (COSP) projects across multiple DE disciplines (i.e Mech-sys, Payloads, Avionics, ECS, Electrical, Structures, Etc.), Safety and levels of management from kick-off to completion..
  3. Create and convey technical presentations for executive review boards.
  4. Orchestrate Aircraft surveys and Supplier visits.
  5. Represent OoP Design Engineering in Production Phase Out (PPO) work transition to SoCal.

Skills

Required

  • 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.
  • 9+ years of aerospace industry experience within Mechanical, Structural, Payloads, Mission Systems, or Software Design or Analysis engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience with Boeing commercial aircraft.
  • 2+ years of experience as an engineering line manager and/or engineering program/project manager.

Nice to have

  • Formal Project-Engineering or Program-Management education or certification (e.g. PMP).
  • Good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience presenting to senior leadership.
  • Strong collaborative skills to deal with multiple team functions.
  • Experience with Service Bulletin releases.
  • Willingness to expand into technical areas without prior experience.
  • Experience with systems engineering practices (safety analysis, requirements definition, risk identification and management, fault tree generation, FMECA, etc.).
  • 1+ years of experience creating standardized documentation and processes.
  • 1+ years of experience mentoring and developing junior Project Engineers.

What the JD emphasized

  • FAA regulations
  • regulatory requirements
  • certification of Boeing products with regulatory agencies