Mid-level Equipment & Tool Engineer

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. 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.

Every day, more than 13,000 Boeing airplanes take to the sky, bringing families and friends together, connecting business partners, and allowing an ever growing number of people to explore the world. Here in the Puget Sound Area, we work hard around the clock to keep those airplanes flying, and to continually raise the bar for technical excellence, making our products the fastest and safest means of transportation on the planet.

Boeing Production Engineering (PE), an organization of over 3,000 employees, supports all aspects of Boeing Commercial Airplanes from product conception to customer support. PE designs, deploys, operates and maintains the production system that enables the build of the airplanes for The Boeing Company.

PE is the hub of all activity within Boeing as we coordinate with everyone who has anything to do with the airplane including design, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers. We also establish common processes, standards and procedures that the company uses to comply with government, regulatory and competitive obligations.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes is recruiting early career and mid-level Manufacturing Engineers to support all locations and programs within the Puget Sound area, such as 777X, 787, 747, 767, 737, Tanker programs and more.  In addition, we have several automation / robotics positions available, which support complex and highly automated production system equipment. Positions may include providing creative solutions for new equipment, troubleshooting, and providing solutions for existing automated systems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Coordinates and implements new engineering principles, theories, advanced technologies and concepts. Validates and ensures production readiness of solutions to complex problems.
• Leads development and implements manufacturing plans. Resolves technical problems that would significantly affect performance, cost or schedule.
• Interfaces with academia, professional associations, partners, other companies, suppliers, integrated product teams and customers to optimize product definition development.
• Develops, identifies and implements conceptual designs and maintains the program architecture for build.
• Develops and implements cost effective and improved processes for Lean production and tooling methodologies. As a member of an integrated product team, integrates technical solutions to ensure process and product reliability.
• Implements Lean principles and technologies. Improves product development and execution performance.
• Analyzes design/build concepts, to evaluate a producible design/build definition. Investigates alternative solutions to meet the producibility requirements.
• Assesses process capabilities on the product definition at a team level. Assesses design features for feasibility of manufacturing processes and reviews geometric dimensioning and tolerance for manufacturing capabilities. Creates a base line for continuous improvement and confirms that design features are compatible with selected manufacturing processes.
• Assists in providing input to the program plan to ensure that producibility activities and deliverables are incorporated. Assists in providing resource estimates for producibility functions to the team leader.
• Calculates the effects of tolerances, locating methods and assembly sequences. Reviews and confirms that process capabilities match variation analysis requirements. Evaluates manufacturing data and analyzes change proposals for variation impacts. Coordinates dimensional requirements across internal team members

The position must meet Export Control compliance requirements, therefore a ?US Person? as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 is required. ?US Person? includes US Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

• Bachelor?s degree or higher in accredited course of study in engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in an engineering discipline

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 5 or more years of experience working in an equipment engineering, tooling engineering, and/or a production environment
• 5 or more years of CATIA or equivalent solid modeling experience
• 5 or more years of experience using basic Microsoft Office and office computing systems
• Experience in automation and robotics is a plus
• Ability to learn in a fast paced environment
• Ability to collaborate with both the engineering work force and the mechanics on the factory floor
• Bachelor of Science degree in one of the following areas is highly preferred:
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering Technology
  • Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Manufacturing Engineering Technology
  • Manufacturing Systems Engineering
  • Material Sciences and Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering Technology
  • Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
  • Plastics Engineering
  • Plastics Engineering Technology
  • Structural Engineering

Typical Education/Experience:

• Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 5 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD, Master+3 years’ related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

Relocation:

• This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Union Representation:

• These are union-represented positions.

Drug Free Workplace:

• Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.