Senior Weight and Mass Properties Engineer

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · San Antonio, TX +1

Boeing is seeking Senior Weight and Mass Properties Engineers to join the Flight Systems Capability team. The role involves aircraft weight and balance analysis, developing and maintaining weight, balance, and mass properties accounting systems, generating reports, and providing guidance on design requirements. Experience with military and commercial derivative aircraft, customer requirements, and analytical tools is desired. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in a STEM field and 9+ years of experience in weights and mass property engineering. Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and maintain weight, balance and mass properties accounting systems and generate required weight and balance reports, support and develop mass properties processes and tools, and provide visibility of mass properties information to integrated product teams, management and customers.
  2. Provide complex vehicle or system configuration guidance
  3. Define complex weight, balance and mass properties related design requirements
  4. Review contract statement of work requirements, define task execution details, estimate task durations, and schedule and monitor team task execution
  5. Gather internal and external customer requirements and develop innovative solutions for mass properties analysis.

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • 9+ years of experience with weights and mass property engineering
  • Ability to travel up to 25% domestic or internationally
  • Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance
  • U.S. Citizenship

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Air Force Aircraft/Navy Mass Properties customer requirements, processes, analytical tools, and reporting methods
  • Demonstrated history of generating and approving technical documentation and reports associated with mass properties
  • Understanding of Boeing commercial derivative aircraft (707, 737, 747, 757, 777, 787) or similar platform interior compartments and standard aircraft primary/secondary hardware and aircraft system components
  • Experience leading teams or projects
  • Background with Boeing large aircraft platforms
  • Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) experience
  • Background in FAA certification (14 CFR Part 25) including showing of regulatory compliance
  • Background in Military certification (MIL-HDBK-516)
  • Trained and Certified to weigh US DoD aircraft
  • Trained and Certified to use Automated Weight and Balance System (AWBS)
  • Active Secret U.S. Security Clearance within the last 5 years
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment

What the JD emphasized

  • 9+ years of experience with weights and mass property engineering
  • Ability to travel up to 25% domestic or internationally
  • An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.
  • U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship
  • An interim and/or final U.S. Top Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.