Senior Structures Design Engineer

Boeing•Renton, WA

About The Position

Senior Structures Design Engineer Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Commercial Airplanes is looking for Senior Structures Design Engineer to work at our Renton, WA location. The 737 Airframe organization is looking for a design engineer with previous design experience in our 737 product. The selected candidate will conduct a high level of cross-functional and cross-organizational integration with both upstream and downstream suppliers and customers. Communication, promoting a ‘working together’ environment, and taking initiative is paramount to the success of the team. The ideal candidate will be adept at interpersonal relationships, working within teams, adaptive to varied assignments and have excellent organizational skills. Typical tasks may include: Support for factory/flight-line production stability and improvement projects. Design and certification of new or revised structural configurations. Serve as liaison between the Airframe organization and EME, Fuels, Propulsion, and other disciplines to ensure compliance. Supplier management support for cost reduction efforts, assessment of vendor changes, and vendor production support. Guide early career engineers in identifying critical requirements when considering change requests. Fleet support, including telex support, maintenance document support, warrantee determinations and SRP’s. Safety support via COSP/safety issues. Use the BPSM process to work through Root Cause Corrective Action activities. Working on special design and consultation projects as needed. Occasional travel to supplier facilities and airline maintenance facilities As a Structures Designer, you will have the following responsibilities: Develops, integrates and documents structural and interior payload system requirements to establish the system design. Develops, maintains and modifies structural and interior payload system and component designs, using 3-D Computer Aided Design tools and/or other design methods, to provide product definition to other engineering groups, production operations, suppliers and external customers throughout the product lifecycle. Leads performance, integration and analysis of tests to validate and verify systems and components meet requirements and specifications. Manages supplier development, test and production activities and coordinates with the supplier to optimize the design and achieve program goals. Assists with investigation of emerging technologies to develop concepts for future product designs to meet projected requirements. Works under minimal direction.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus on Mechanical, Civil, Aerospace Aeronautical or Material Sciences)
9+ years related work experience in structure design.
Experience with CATIA V5 and Boeing specific design tools and processes

Nice To Haves

Has previous job experience working on the 737 program in Structures
Ability to excel in a highly dynamic environment, team-oriented atmosphere
Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex, nuanced results in a clear, concise manner that is easily understood by a wide audience
Must promote ‘working together’ culture and integrate across multiple functions and organizations
Have initiative and ability to recognize needs/SOW without explicit guidance
Be able to provide technical solutions to a wide range of problems
Familiar with DCCS, ETAC, PDM

Responsibilities

Develops, integrates and documents structural and interior payload system requirements to establish the system design.
Develops, maintains and modifies structural and interior payload system and component designs, using 3-D Computer Aided Design tools and/or other design methods, to provide product definition to other engineering groups, production operations, suppliers and external customers throughout the product lifecycle.
Leads performance, integration and analysis of tests to validate and verify systems and components meet requirements and specifications.
Manages supplier development, test and production activities and coordinates with the supplier to optimize the design and achieve program goals.
Assists with investigation of emerging technologies to develop concepts for future product designs to meet projected requirements.