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Chief Program Engineer – M&IS Integrated Missions

Huntington Beach, California Job ID JR2025448227 Category Engineering - Systems Post Date Mar. 26, 2025
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Job Description

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Position Overview:

Maritime & Intelligence Systems (M&IS) is a growing business within BDS Space, Intelligence, and Weapon Systems (SI&WS) focused on delivering complex solutions in some of the most challenging environments on Earth. M&IS is seeking aChief Engineer to join our team in Huntington Beach, CA to support the Integrated Missions portfolio area which defines, designs, and delivers combined platforms, payloads, and integrated technology solutions for complex missions across various domains. IM includes Proprietary programs, Extra Large Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) future missions/payloads, Liquid Robotics subsidiary, and Acoustics Systems focused on Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) processing.

This CPE will lead the technical execution of one of our special programs. If you are a motivated senior engineer with exceptional communication skills (oral and written), look forward to a dynamic work environment with a broad range of engineers from many skill areas, and aspire to further develop technical leadership abilities, we are looking for you.

Position Responsibilities:

  • Ensures technical conduct, progress, performance, and results are executed in compliance with established requirements, plans, and program charter.

  • Is directly responsible and accountable to the Program Manager and has an independent reporting path to the M&IS Senior Director & Chief Engineer for (1) technical excellence and integrity of design, development, production, support, supportability, and mission success and (2) to support program cost and schedule baselines, and design-to-cost targets and cost reduction initiatives, while ensuring the safety and technical excellence and integrity of the products.

  • Provides senior technical leadership for the program and associated proposals, and be the senior technical interface to customers and suppliers. Represents the perspective of system users and customers in program reviews.

  • Establishes a culture of proactive technical oversight, risk management and rapid issue resolution, providing alternative paths for issue resolution and an open dialogue on technical issues. Actively leads and participates in the program Agile work process.

  • Regularly assesses the baseline program technical execution plan against technology, complexity, and risk-adjusted benchmarks of similar engineering efforts.

  • Advises the program manager and indirect reporting paths if the baseline plan's scope, tasks, inherent processes, resources, deliverables, and/or risks are inconsistent with those benchmarks.

  • Prevents traveled technical risk and ensure that technical risks and issues are driven rapidly to closure.

  • Oversees the Responsible Engineer (RE) process, where engineers and engineering leadership are assigned over the systems, subsystems, and components for each program.

  • Implements and enforces engineering functional excellence in people, processes, tools, and practices; drive productivity improvements through the use of the lean principles/discipline; and share best practices and lessons learned.

  • Establishes a culture of technical expertise, service, and availability within the technical community and across the enterprise.

  • Works with functional counterparts to understand and ensure process inputs and outputs are clearly defined to enable products and services to meet requirements and be delivered on schedule and within costs.

  • Monitors Enterprise technology strategy activities and provide inputs to Enterprise Technology Strategy to ensure technology insertion and application is relevant to the program. Partner with subject matter experts and technology experts in understanding technology development and integration into current state and future goals for increased functionality, performance, testability, verification and validation. Technical oversight of research and development efforts to include customer and internally funded.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience):

  • Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science.

  • 10+ years of experience in leading engineering team execution

  • 10+ years of experience working with undersea systems engineering, integration, test, and/or operations programs

  • Experience with electronic systems and advanced signal processing

  • Experience with integration and test of maritime surface / underwater platforms, structures, sensors, payloads, or launch and recovery equipment

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

  • Ability to lead major program milestone reviews

  • Strong experience in technical work effort estimation processes and tools

  • Interfacing with customers and program leadership on schedule and performance issues.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

  • Experience with defense and intelligence programs

  • Experience with Model-Based Engineering (MBE) methodologies and practices

  • Demonstrated skills in Risk Management and Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) efforts.

  • Cost Account Management using Boeing processes and procedures, including Earned Value Management (EVM).

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.

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent.  Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities. 

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an 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. 

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Please note that the salary information shown below is a general guideline only.  Salaries are based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. 

Summary pay range (level 5): $157,250 - $212,750

Summary pay range (level 6): $186,150 - $251,850


Applications for this position will be accepted until Apr. 10, 2025


Export Control Requirements: This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Export Control Details: US based job, US Person required

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Required

Relocation

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Security Clearance

This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active) This position requires ability to obtain program access, for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship only.

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

This position is for 1st shift


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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