Description :
Location
Hill AFB, UT
Virtual Office/Telecommute?
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Virtual Work Not Available
Shift
First
Business Unit
Integrated Defense Sys
Division
Support Systems
Program
Mm & U
Occupation Title
Engr Product Lifecycle Mgmt
Skills Management Title
Config & Data Mgmt/Tech Integ
Job Classification
6D2EP4
Job Type
Non-Management
Experience Level
Mid Level (5-15 years of experience)
Exemption Status
Exempt
Union
No
Security Clearance Required?
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Ability to Obtain Interim Clearance (Pre-Start) and Final Clearance (Post Start) - US Citizenship Required
Work Eligibility Required?
Yes
US Person Status Required?
Yes
Export Control Required?
Yes
Relocation Money Available?
Yes
Date Posted
09/19/2008
Closing Date
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11/21/2008
Position Description
The successful candidate will be a self starter that is willing to work on a small team near Salt Lake City, Utah, supporting the Air Force A-10 program office. This multi-skill job is to support configuration and product data management activities as defined by the Air Force customer in support of the A-10 Wing Replacement Program (WRP). The main focus will to establish the configuration management requirements and processes to support the integration of the A-10 enhanced wing assembly with legacy Air Force systems. In addition, the candidate will perform basic configuration management / data management tasks within the Teamcenter Engineering product data manager. Detail tasks will include the following: 1. Assist government configuration management personnel to identify the best configuration item management approach necessary to manage the A-10 WRP mono-detail approach with the legacy A-10 multi-detail approach 2. Assist government personnel to manage the creation of new data and new drawing numbers from the A-10 WRP approach. Assist government personnel to write business practices to manage the creation and management of this data 3. Assist government personnel to set up the necessary IT infrastructure (Teamcenter Engineering & Oracle databases) to manage, sustain and modify the configuration management approach defined for the A-10 WRP 4. Assist government personnel to set up Teamcenter Engineering within government firewall and function properly in coordination with Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) on the A-10 WRP 5. Assist government personnel to set up additional government workflows to manage change of the 3-D and 2-D engineering data 6. Assist government personnel to set up interfaces between data managed within Teamcenter Engineering (TcEng) and the government engineering data management system (Weapon System Management Tool (WSMT)) to ensure configuration control of the data is synchronized 7. Assist government personnel to create automated procedures within TcEng/WSMT to coordinate S/N controlled items (A-10 WRP wings) and the aircraft (effectivity) they are installed on. Assist government personnel to create automated procedures within TcEng/WSMT to track flight hours on S/N controlled items, including installation on different aircraft with different flight hours 8. Assist government personnel to develop plan for notifying users of 3-D/2-D data when changes have been made to the data 9. Assist government personnel to write operating instructions on the validity of data and procedures for ensuring 3-D/2-D data is current 10. Mentoring and coordinating with configuration management personnel to transition and sustain the engineering data created under the A-10 WRP
Competencies
General/Leadership
[ + ] 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.
[ + ] Change Management
Consistently encourages other project leads, internal employees, and external customers to question established work processes or assumptions, ask 'why' until underlying cause is discovered, and support continuous improvement actions and alternatives. Consistently remains open to ideas offered by others; frequently supports and uses good ideas to solve complex problems or address complex issues. Recognizes and rewards other project leads, internal employees, and external customers who make useful changes. Actively helps other project leads, internal employees, and external customers overcome resistance to change; shows empathy with people who feel loss as a result of change. Seen as an expert in minimizing complexities, contradictions, and paradoxes or reducing their impact on other project managers, internal employees, and external customers; clarifies direction and smoothes the process of change.
[ + ] Customer Focus
Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions as a project team leader; develops and sustains productive customer relationships as they relate to project team leadership responsibilities; actively seeks information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how project level actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists other project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.
[ + ] 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.
[ + ] Negotiation
Explores all parties' needs, concerns, and initial positions as they relate to large/complex negotiations. Builds common ground by highlighting areas of agreement and working through areas of disagreement. Manages the interpersonal process to stay focused on the task; constructively addresses emotions and conflict. Engages in mutual problem solving by brainstorming alternative positions or approaches and evaluating them openly and fairly. Builds value of preferred alternatives by relating them to the needs of others; responds to objections by emphasizing value. Seeks a win-win solution through a give-and-take process.
[ + ] 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
[ + ] Design / Produce Process
Extensive, specialized knowledge of Boeing design, production, and build processes (e.g., maintenance access solid, dependability cost model, produceability trade offs) to effectively influence product design.
[ + ] Engineering Config/Data Mgmt
Extensive knowledge and understanding of the technical considerations applicable to the integration of the product?s hardware, software and human elements, and the knowledge and application of the configuration and data management processes and tools throughout the total product life-cycle. This includes: configuration and data management planning; configuration and document identification; change management applicable to both configurations and documentation/data; configuration status accounting; data status tracking and recording; plan and conduct design reviews and audits, and data/information retention including retrieval of active data and the long term archival storage of data required for historical or legal purposes.
[ + ] Product Life-cycle
Extensive and specialized knowledge of product lifecycle, including manufacturing, deployment, modification, aging and continued service, and disposal.
[ + ] Supplier Config. Management
Extensive knowledge of techniques required for the management of the supplier's Configuration Management (CM) activities. Demonstrates the ability to develop CM requirements and evaluate supplier performance as related to those requirements. Demonstrates ability to distinguish between CM requirements and objectives and to balance between those requirements and the supplier's capabilities and limitations.
Education and/or Experience
Degree and typical experience in engineering classification: Bachelor's and 9 or more years' experience, Master's with 7 or more years' experience or PhD with 4 or more years' experience. Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry. ABET is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.
Other Job related information
The candidates should have 10 years or more of configuration / product data management experience in an aerospace classification. Details skills and experience are as follows: 1. Proficient in configuration management of parts, assemblies and installation of aircraft engineering data 2. Proficient with using Teamcenter Engineering to create/manage engineering data and engineering related workflows 3. Proficient in developing, programming and managing schemas in Teamcenter Engineering 4. Familiar with Boeing IDS schema and methodologies for managing 3-D engineering data, FEA data and legacy 2-D data 5. Knowledgeable and proficient in creating and managing engineering change processes within Teamcenter Engineering 6. Experienced in using Oracle databases to manage data. Experienced with programming interfaces and collaborating data contained in Oracle based database systems with data contained in Teamcenter Engineering databases for management of engineering data 7. A broad background in Information Systems and working knowledge of product data manager backend systems The individual that responds to this position must we willing to work side by side on a daily basis with the customer. The candidate will be responsible for representing The Boeing Company to the customer and must have good communication skills to develop a good working rapport.