Struct & Payload Design Engr 4

Skills Management Title Engineering Status Full Time, Employee Business Component Engineering Requisition Number 08-1003559 YOU MAY NOT ALWAYS SEE US, but we're in the sky, on the ground, at sea and out in space; with your help our technologies will benefit the world. That's why we're here. Struct & Payload Design Engr 4 Position Description Antenna Reflector Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead has responsibility, accountability, and authority for following: Leading and managing cost, schedule, risk and technical content of light weight precision composite reflector surfaces. Leading reflector mechanical and electrical design, manufacturing, assembly and test from proposal stage through hardware delivery. Lead and direct the daily activities of engineers, CAD designers, suppliers, manufacturing engineers and technicians to design and produce Antenna Reflectors. Create, manage, maintain and report on earned value, budgets, cost to complete, project schedule, and engineering releases using the Boeing Business tools. Ensure application of best practices and identifies the need for enhanced processes, methods, and tools. Be responsive to all customer needs within allocated budgets and requirements and manages technical and project performance of subcontractors, and suppliers. Lead and participate in Lean, CCPM and DFMAT activities to improve cycle time, throughput, and cost competitiveness for reflector products Use Boeing Lean Enterprise analysis methods and apply lean processes and tools. Leads and participates in the Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities. Provide technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems and develops solutions that are imaginative, thorough, practicable, and consistent with reflector product objectives. Competencies General/Leadership [ + ] Adaptability Fully understands changes in own and fellow senior employees' work and situations; is frequently called upon to explain the logic or basis for change to other employees; is generally seen as an expert on information about changes affecting own and fellow senior employees' jobs; occasionally mentors fellow employees around the change. Treats changes and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth; focuses on the beneficial aspects of change; speaks positively about the change to fellow senior employees and external customers. Quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with changes in the work environment; readily tries new approaches appropriate for new or changed situations; does not persist with ineffective behaviors. [ + ] Build Positive Relationships Consistently builds effective working relationships with other project leads, internal employees, and external customers. Probes for and provides information to clarify situations. Consistently seeks and expands on original ideas from other project leads, internal employees, and external customers, enhances others' ideas, and contributes own ideas about the issues at hand. Places higher priority on project and organization goals than on own goals. Guides others in gaining agreement from other project leads, managers, internal employees, and external customers to support ideas or take partnership-oriented action; uses sound rationale to explain value of actions. Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. [ + ] Communication Consistently clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Consistently keeps the audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Consistently frames even complex messages in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Consistently seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used; attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Advises fellow project leads and other internal employees in effective communication techniques. [ + ] Decision Making Consistently recognizes a wide range of complex, specialized issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Steadily identifies the need for and collects information to better understand issues, problems, and opportunities. Regularly integrates complex information from a wide variety of sources; detects complex trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships. Consistently creates relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Consistently implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Regularly includes fellow project leads, employees across the organization, and external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions. [ + ] Project Management Extensive experience in creating comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules for significant Business Unit projects; identifies time frames for key project milestones and ensure alignment of sub tier activities for overall project visibility, tracking and completion. Directs and manages very complex project schedules requiring interfacing with multi regional or international activities. Independently identifies project resource requirements, integrate and direct multi project elements into a single collective overall project plan. Collaborates with others on the most complex projects assigned. Ability to direct, delegate and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of the overall large scale and complex projects. Identifies and resolves any issues and provide solutions and or recommendations to ensure the successful completion of the project. Technical [ + ] Analytical Skills Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources with clients, customers and/or suppliers. [ + ] Analyze & Interpret Engr Data Extensive and specialized ability to analyze and interpret company products (e.g., ability to analyze and interpret all products and services with the group). Makes use of and applies job practices, techniques, standards, principles, theories, and concepts. Recognized as a job expert within the department/organization. [ + ] Computer Aided Design Tools Ability to manipulate complex computer aided design tools and systems (e.g., computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), computer aided three dimensional interactive (CATIA), Mentor Graphics, Unigraphics). Able to build and manipulate complex data sets, (e.g., compare CATIA to measurement data, create stereo lithography files). [ + ] Design Concepts & Techniques Extensive knowledge of design concepts and techniques (e.g., concurrent engineering, Design for Manufacture/Assembly [DFM/A]). [ + ] Engineering Processes Extensive and specialized knowledge of responsibilities and tasks performed by various Engineering departments/disciplines (e.g., design, test, software, technology, avionics). Extensive and specialized knowledge of the interaction between departments/ disciplines and how their products/processes affect one another and impact non-engineering processes (e.g., Operations, Logistics, Business). Education and/or Experience Requires educational credentials meeting the Boeing classification standards for engineers and typically 9 to 13 years' experience in an engineering classification or educational credentials meeting the Boeing classification standards for engineers and either a Master's degree with 7 to 11 years' experience or a PhD degree with 4 to 8 years' experience in an engineering classification. Other Job related information Provides IPT Leadership on following tasks: Design of satellite structures including interface negotiation, layout development, and production drawing release using ProE. Support of project manager(s) with technical content, cost and schedule of structure design and layout products from proposal stage through hardware delivery in an IPT environment.Planning of research and development programs and exercises considerable latitude in determining technical objectives.Application of best practices and identifies the need for enhanced processes, methods, and tools.Translation of contract requirements into work requirements, processes, and tasks.Planning, scheduling, and leading others to produce technical work responsive to customer needs within allocated budgets.Contacting customers, teaming partners, subcontractors, and suppliers to exchange technical data and to discuss project performance. Managing customer and supplier relationships and participates in development of fundamental approaches to projects and of requirements for implementation. Application of knowledge of structural design and layout, materials, design definition principles, and regulatory/qualification environment to create structural designs and layouts of products. Evaluating designs and perform trade studies for performance, structural adequacy, cost effectiveness, and regulatory compliance.Developing, integrating and documenting structural and payload system requirements to establish the system design and layout. Developing, maintaining and modifying structural and payload systems and component designs, using 3-D Computer Aided Design tools and/or other design and layout methods, to provide product definition to other engineering groups, production operations, suppliers and external customers throughout the product lifecycle.Performing, integrating analytical and test results to validate and verify systems and components meet requirements and specifications.Managing supplier development, test and production activities and coordinates with the supplier to optimize the design and achieve program goals.Developing new design/analysis processes and tools to improve the effectiveness, quality and efficiency of the development effort. Investigating emerging technologies to develop concepts for future design layouts to meet projected requirements. Additional Competencies include: Experienced integrated product team skills including capabilities such as task prioritization, project scope and requirements management, use of earned value management system metrics, partnering with vendors and external organizations, working in IPT setting, goal orientation and productivity focus, cost/schedule/performance/ risk accountability, IPT leadership and interface with multiple disciplines, and associated project management tools a plus. Experienced in requirements definition, structure design, 3-D modeling, configuration management, project management, scheduling, earned value, anomaly resolution, risk management, subcontracts management, hardware assembly, integration and test.Knowledge of satellite product areas (e.g., antenna, bus and payload module structures, integration of major sub-systems, satellite configuration).Participate in and/or lead a antenna structures team by communicating/coordinating with other affected groups, vendors, and customers, and conducting design and customer reviews (e.g., internal design reviews, Preliminary Design Review [PDR], Critical Design Review [CDR]) to ensure structural design requirements are met. Provide written or verbal status reports. Develop and document preliminary designs (e.g., structural arrangements, layouts, interface definitions, load paths, surface definitions) for vehicles and structures by evaluating concepts.Perform studies (e.g., trade, kinematics, tolerance) and preliminary structural sizing, and review results with other affected groups. Current SSBI/Special Programs Access - US Citizenship Required *** Please note that depending on the specific position, you may be required to pass additional medical tests, credit checks, and/or other requirements. These additional items are required for the Company to comply with various laws and regulatory rules.*** Every job requisition has specific and unique requirements listed under 'Description', 'Competencies', and 'Education'. Applicants will increase their opportunities for consideration by demonstrating compatibility with these requirements in their resumes. 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