Description :
Location
Huntsville, AL
Virtual Office/Telecommute?
(Things you should know about Virtual Office)
Virtual Work Not Available
Shift
First
Business Unit
Integrated Defense Sys
Division
Network & Space Systems
Program
Missile Defense Systems
Occupation Title
Engr Multi-Skill Leadership
Skills Management Title
Project Engineer
Job Classification
6C1LP4
Job Type
Non-Management
Experience Level
Mid Level (5-15 years of experience)
Exemption Status
Exempt
Union
No
Security Clearance Required?
(Security Clearance definitions)
Current Secret - US Citizenship Required
Work Eligibility Required?
Yes
US Person Status Required?
Yes
Export Control Required?
Yes
Relocation Money Available?
Yes
Date Posted
02/22/2008
Closing Date
(Things you should know about closing dates)
04/22/2008
Position Description
GMD Mission Assurance Lead Engineer. The Boeing Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Mission Assurance (MA) group is responsible for executing tasks which promote technical integrity and mission success across a geographically distributed team. This position is for a lead engineer responsible for planning and executing mission assurance initiatives and tasks. Duties include: managing and implementing MA group processes, technical monitoring of key program processes, identifying program process improvements, working with stakeholders to define and implement process improvements, coordinating across IPTs for program solutions to technical issues, coordinating anomaly closures through program control boards, assisting with customer audit finding closures, providing plans and status to senior management, developing and maintaining metrics, coaching less experienced engineers. Some travel is required.
Competencies
General/Leadership
[ + ] Building A Successful Team
Ensures that the purpose and importance of the team are clarified (e.g., team has a clear charter or mission statement); guides the setting of specific and measurable team goals and objectives. Helps to clarify roles and responsibilities of team members; helps ensure that necessary steering, review, or support functions are in place. Makes procedural or process suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions; provides necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to team accomplishments. Listens to and fully involves others in team decisions and actions; values and uses individual differences and talents. Shares important or relevant information with the team. Adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines; fulfills team responsibilities; demonstrates personal commitment to the team.
[ + ] Cross Functional Partnerships
Analyzes the organization, potential external partners, and own area to identify key relationships that should be initiated or improved to further the attainment of own area's goals. Exchanges information with project leads, internal employees, and external customers to clarify partnership benefits and potential problems; collaboratively determines the scope and expectations of the partnership so that both areas' needs can be met. Collaboratively determines courses of action to realize mutual goals; facilitates agreement on each partner's responsibilities and needed support. Places higher priority on organization's goals than on own area's goals; anticipates effects of own area's actions and decisions on partners; influences others throughout the organization and in partner organizations to support partnership objectives. Implements effective means for monitoring and evaluating the partnership process and the attainment of mutual goals.
[ + ] 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.
[ + ] Gaining Commitment
Describes expectations, goals, requests, or future states in a way that provides clarity and excites interest. Proactively seeks, gives, and summarizes information; consistently ensures that the situation/issue at hand is understood. Presents own ideas; seeks and develops suggestions of others; consistently makes procedural suggestions. Uses appropriate influence strategies (such as demonstrating benefits or giving rewards) to gain genuine agreement with fellow project leads, other internal employees, and customers; persists by using different approaches as needed to gain commitment. Summarizes outcomes of discussions and establishes next steps if needed; consistently and proactively establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions.
[ + ] Systems Thinking
Consistently evaluates job tasks and processes on how well they help meet team objective(s); identifies non-value-adding components and barriers. Formulates change strategies; frequently seeks input from other project leads and internal employees to evaluate options for change and encourage buy-in. Makes appropriate changes to job/role structures and processes by communicating effectively and focusing on new skill development. Uses extensive measurement systems to monitor the implementation.
Technical
[ + ] Engineering Processes
Basic - 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).
Preferred -
[ + ] Engr Knowledge & Comprehension
Basic - Extensive knowledge of various engineering disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, and systems. The 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.
Preferred -
[ + ] Influencing Others
Basic - Demonstrates proven ability to state what is needed to persuade and convince others without causing defensiveness and to inspire others to take action. Builds relationships to gain support and commitment from others, promotes ideas with enthusiasm, conviction and assertiveness. Provides compelling rationale for arguments and uses appropriate level of persistence on activities requiring ingenuity and innovative solutions. Serves as a mentor to others.
Preferred -
[ + ] Product Knowledge
Basic - Extensive knowledge of product/service value stream.
Preferred -
[ + ] Project Leadership
Basic - Extensive and specialized 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. Extensive and specialized ability to identify and resolve project related issues and provide solutions and/or recommendations to ensure the successful completion of the project.
Preferred -
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
Position requires US Citizenship. Applicants selected must have a current FINAL SECRET clearance and will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for accessing classified information. ** Please indicate your current Security Clearance status and effective dates clearly on your resume.** Boeing offers programs to support career advancement and learning opportunities and technologically challenging assignments. This position offers an opportunity for employees to also enjoy the advantages of living and working in Huntsville. Missile defense and space exploration are at the heart of this community, where there are more engineers per capita than anywhere else in the nation. Huntsville offers a wide range of cultural and recreational opportunities, and the natural beauty of the area provides unlimited opportunities for hiking, biking, golfing, outdoor exploration and water sports on the Tennessee River. REQUIRED: Demonstrated technical leadership and problem solving skills in multi-disciplined environment. Demonstrated ability to coordinate and communicate plans and status with multiple levels of management, including executive management. Demonstrated planning and presentation skills. Experience defining, implementing and/or improving standard engineering processes and procedures. Demonstrated ability to drive multi-discipline issues to closure. PREFERRED: Engineering leadership experience on GMD program. Engineering leadership experience with geographically distributed team. Proposal experience. Demonstrated customer contact skills. Familiarity with Missile Defense Agency requirements (MAP and PMAP). Proficiency with GNTS tool. Active Top Secret clearance.
