Senior Project Management Specialist

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Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is looking for a Senior Project Management Specialist (Level 4) to join the Fabrication – Emergent Operations team based out of Auburn, Washington.
Emergent Operations (EO) is a major business unit in Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ (BCA) Fabrication division. Our core mission is to provide emergent support for the developmental, production, and active fleet programs within BCA, Boeing Global Services, and Boeing Defense & Space. The ideal candidate should have experience in Project Management, executive communications, strategic goal generation, cross-functional integration, and team building across various major business units/divisions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS (REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE):

• 3+ years of experience with Project Management and the ability to self-manage projects
• 1+ years of experience performing schedule-related risk and opportunity analyses and providing potential solutions to management
• 3+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams with maintenance, productions, capital projects, research and development, safety, and quality

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS (DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE):

• Candidate should be proactive, organized, able to prioritize work, and be able to work independently in a dynamic environment
• Candidate should possess knowledge of project planning principles and techniques, and be able to drive implementation
• Candidate will have to regularly provide reports outs and presentations to executive leadership
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required

TYPICAL EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 10 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. Master+8 years’ related work experience, 14 years’ related work experience, etc.).

• Coordinates and integrates EO’s capital acquisition requests with Fabrication core capital team; oversees capital project planning and execution; integrates and consolidates EO capital requests across 4 EO sites.
• Leads cross-functional teams in the development of plans and integrated schedules to implement a variety of projects supporting EO, including: Safety, Quality, Lean activities, Facilities/Infrastructure, and Capital Acquisition. Drives execution of projects once committed and funded.
• Acts as Bus Ops liaison to one of the senior factory operations leaders. Supports the senior leader with development of assessments and deliverables (ex. rate studies, inventory studies, etc.)
• Coordinates with internal and external stakeholders to fulfill strategies and execute to near-term and long-range business plans and objectives.
• Role requires regular presentation of project status, risks, performance to plan, etc. to executive leadership to gain required approvals and strategic direction.
• Provides coaching and guidance to less experienced personnel.
• Leads, develops, coordinates, integrates, analyzes, and maintains integrated plans and schedules for complex projects, programs and change driven activities in accordance with Project Management industry.
• Leads studies/analysis (trend, variance, impact), reports, risk assessments and planning efforts to determine impacts, constraints involving product development, production rates, process improvement, program initiatives.
• Identifies risk and opportunity potential, develops mitigation planning and refines the business case.
• Develops and establishes lead time requirements. Facilitates and ensures integration of project/program plan, schedules, change and baseline management, processes, techniques considered to be best practice across the industry.
• Acts as primary project contact to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives.
• Directs all phases of projects or subsystems of major projects from inception through completion.