Engineering Senior Manager

About the Role

This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units (“Spirit Commercial”). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles, and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the 2nd Shift Engineering team, responsible for providing real-time engineering support to manufacturing, assembly, quality, and operations across the entire site.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership for the evaluation and disposition of nonconforming conditions, production issues, and engineering deviations while ensuring compliance with engineering requirements, regulatory standards, and company procedures.
• Establish priorities and allocate engineering resources to support production, schedules, recovery activities, emergent manufacturing issues, and critical program milestones.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Design Engineering, Stress Engineering, Materials & Processes, Supply Chain, and Program leadership to develop technically sound and producible solutions to complex manufacturing challenges.
• Drive timely engineering response and decision-making to minimize production disruption, traveled work, recurring defects, and schedule impacts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other related course of study obtained from an ABET accredited engineering program or equivalent international accreditation.
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; strong presentation skills.
• Strong emotional intelligence skills and professional presence to work with company executives.
• This position is for 2nd Shift.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or Doctor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in science, engineering, or other related field obtained from an ABET accredited engineering program or equivalent international accreditation.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience with new programs.
• Network across the aerospace and defense industry.
• Experience collaborating with executive-level managers and managing complex engineering designs.
• Experience with Program Management Best Practices (Risk, Issue, and Opportunity Management, Enterprise Standard Gated Process, Baseline Management, etc.).

Benefits

The Boeing Company provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including:

• Health insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Health savings accounts
• Retirement savings plans
• Life and disability insurance programs
• Paid and unpaid time away from work

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay Range: Level L - $142,500 - $218,500

Join Spirit AeroSystems’ Kansas team and you may be eligible for a $5,000 state of Kansas Aviation tax credit for up to five years.