Test & Evaluation Engineer 4\5
Work in an Integrated Product Team (IPT) environment leading the test program planning, estimation, and execution of Rotorcraft testing programs. Coordinate with the program engineering and management personnel leading the documentation efforts for the testing requirements and objectives, facilitate dialog with BT&E testing capabilities ensuring a clear understanding of testing objectives and expectations, establish a testing baseline estimate and resource plan and monitor test program execution ensuring compliance with the baseline plan. Provide status reporting to program and Boeing Test & Evaluation (BT&E) senior leadership and facilitate any corrective action and recovery plans as required to meet program objectives. Successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to work under minimal consultive direction in a highly dynamic environment, while maintaining a high degree of communication with all participants involved with the testing program. Technical and field experience in all phases of Development Test (DT), Operational Test (OT) to include Operational Test Readiness Review (OTRR), Initial Operational Test & Evaluation (IOT&E) and Follow-on Operational Test & Evaluation (FOT&E) planning and execution highly desirable. Successful candidate will have demonstrated ability to work with multiple military service organizations. Technical and as well as business acumen including earned value management is required.
Competencies
General• Collaboration
Consistently works effectively and cooperatively with team members and fellow project team leaders, other employees and external customers. Establishes and maintains good working relationships by actively involving less experienced employees and/or other project team leaders and external customers and helping them feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. Places higher priority on team and organization goals than on own goals. Offers to provide assistance and/or project team leadership to other teams and/or employees when doing so would benefit the organization.
• 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.
• 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• Engineering Tests Techniques
Basic - Advanced ability to perform engineering tests techniques, including handling qualities, performance, systems testing, structural loads, weapons separation, propulsion, etc.
Preferred - Extensive specialized ability to perform engineering tests techniques, including handling qualities, performance, systems testing, structural loads, weapons separation, propulsion, etc.
• Flight Test
Basic - Complete knowledge of and ability to work within flight test requirements, environment (e.g., Air Traffic Control, Air Space, Duty Day and flight test team) and coordination procedures. Able to integrate operations in a flight test environment.
Preferred - Advanced knowledge of and ability to work within flight test requirements, environment (e.g., Air Traffic Control, Air Space, Duty Day and flight test team) and coordination procedures. Able to direct the integration of operations in a flight test environment.
• Test Aircraft Missions
Basic - Advanced knowledge of flight test requirements and procedures (e.g., test equipment requirements, chase aircraft requirements, flight test weather requirements) for monitoring test aircraft missions. Interfaces with the test organization to obtain test requirements.
Preferred - Extensive knowledge of flight test requirements and procedures (e.g., test equipment requirements, chase aircraft requirements, flight test weather requirements) for monitoring test aircraft missions. Interfaces with the test organization to obtain test requirements.
• Test Conduct
Basic - Extensive and specialized ability to lead a team to conduct a test, compilation of test sequence, monitor progress of the test, and record test activities while being able to accommodate any unforeseen events that occur during the test.
Preferred - Advanced, expert ability to lead a team to conduct a test, compilation of test sequence, monitor progress of the test, and record test activities while being able to accommodate any unforeseen events that occur during the test.
Basic Qualifications For ConsiderationHave you had test management experience leading a multi-skilled, multi-site, test team from test planning into and through a test program?
Do you have experience with testing of military aircraft or on military programs?
Do you meet the criteria described in the 'Typical Education / Experience' section of this requisition?
Typical Education/Experience
Level 4 - 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. Level 5 - Degree and typical experience in engineering classification: Bachelor's 14 or more years' experience, Master's with 12 or more years' experience or PhD with 9 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
- Business Unit Engineering Ops & Tech
- Division Boeing Test & Evaluation
- Program Test Program Management
- Job Type Non-Management
- Experience Level Career/Experienced
- US Person Status Required? Yes
Closing Date: 02/27/2012
