Manufacturing Engineering Manager - Structures, Propulsion, & Mechanisms - Millennium Space Systems

About the role

As a Manager of Production Engineering, you will inspire, develop, coordinate, support, and lead a team of Manufacturing Engineers supporting manufacturing. You will be responsible for leveraging design for manufacturability and continuous improvement to deliver space-grade structures, propulsion hardware, and electrical components at high rate and low cost, without ever compromising personnel safety or product reliability. You will serve as the advocate for your team and the technical subject matter expert between production and design engineering to ensure that both have the resources they need to succeed. You will develop and sustain a vision for growth and development of both the members of your team and the capabilities of the manufacturing areas. A successful candidate for this role will demonstrate integrity, intellectual curiosity, empathy, technical capability, and a strong motivation to support production.

Responsibilities

• Manage employees performing engineering and technical activities in the area of Production Engineering
• Develop and execute project and process plans, implement policies and procedures and set operational goals
• Acquire resources for projects and processes, provides technical management of suppliers and leads process improvements
• Develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports
• Provide oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes. Manage, develop and motivate employees.
• Work closely with Manufacturing teams to develop solutions so the floor can build and assembly product
• Complete the Boeing First-Line Leader Assessment as part of the selection process (failure to complete removes you from consideration)

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited course of study in engineering
• At least one year of experience in a leadership role (team leader, temp manager, large scale cross‑functional project/program management, or formal manager experience) OR completion of the Boeing internal course “Exploring Leadership”
• Technical knowledge & experience in Structures, Propulsion Structures, or Propulsion Systems
• Ability to communicate with technical personnel from multiple skill areas and functions to evaluate technical information and issues impacting design, production, and support of products, services, or other deliverables
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance (requires U.S. Citizenship); final U.S. clearance Post‑Start required

Qualifications

• Skill and ability to collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources
• Knowledge of various engineering disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, and propulsion systems
• 3+ years of experience in mechanical manufacturing engineering in Aerospace, Automotive, or Commercial industries (Structures, Propulsion, Integration, or GSE)

Skills

• Data collection, organization, synthesis, and analysis
• Cross‑disciplinary engineering knowledge (electrical, mechanical, propulsion)
• Mechanical manufacturing engineering experience in aerospace/automotive/commercial sectors

Benefits

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
• Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts
• Retirement savings plans
• Life and disability insurance programs
• Paid and unpaid time away from work

Pay

Level K: $151,300 - $222,500

Schedule

Shift 1 (United States of America)