Senior Program Manager

About the Position

Bring your ideas to life at Boeing, where we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful, and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Join our Wichita, Kansas team as a Senior Program Manager and find your future with us.

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, one of Boeing’s three business units and the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. Spirit Commercial’s core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles, and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide business leadership and guidance for a profit and loss stand-alone program or major business/program element where business needs dictate.
• Responsible for the technical, cost, schedule, quality, and delivery performance of the program.
• Major responsibilities include managing profit and loss, strategic planning, customer interface and relationships, maintaining program schedules, managing program cost, chairing program risk and change control boards, overall program performance and governance, short and long range business planning, affordability targets and budget allocation, implementing program standards and best practices, teaming, and posturing the program for subsequent phases.
• Provide comprehensive technical and business leadership across the organization including oversight of Integrated Product Teams necessary to plan, execute, and control program performance.
• Apply knowledge of company processes, infrastructure, policies, business strategies, and products to plan, commit, and control the deployment of resources.
• Ability to direct, develop, align, integrate, implement, and manage program plans, strategies, and processes.
• Ensure disciplined program change control, including effectively evaluating and managing major and minor program and process changes and customer requests.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (ABET-accredited), Business, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of Aerospace Experience and 5+ years of experience in a management role.

Core Skills:

• Financial Acumen, including analysis
• Business Acumen
• Political Acumen
• Managing with Influence
• Interpersonal relationships and communication
• Teambuilding
• Continuous improvement

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Profit and Loss
• External Customer Interface
• Change Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain
• Long Range Business Planning, Risk Management, Affordability Management, Product Configuration Management
• Development and/or sustaining programs, Earned Value Management, Developing Proposals and Estimating (contracts)
• Integrated Program Planning and Scheduling, Managing program scope, Cross-functional project management, Experience leading Integrated Product Teams (IPT's)
• Experience with Continuous Improvement/Lean/Six Sigma

We Offer

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• 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, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Generous company match to your 401(k).
• Industry-leading tuition assistance program pays your institution directly.
• Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
• Up to $10,000 gift match when you support your favorite nonprofit organizations.

About the Company

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful, and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

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