Systems Engineering Manager

Systems Engineering Manager - Airplane Systems

Company:

Boeing India Private Limited

Overview

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and a leading provider of commercial airplanes, defense, space, and security systems, and global services. Building on a legacy of over a century of innovation and leadership, Boeing continues to lead the way in technology and innovation, customer delivery, and investment in its people and future growth of aerospace.

In India, Boeing has been a strong partner to the Indian aerospace and defense sectors for more than 80 years. People at Boeing have been supporting mission readiness and modernization of India's defense forces, and enabling connected, safer, and smarter flying experiences, in the sky, in the seas, and in space.

Technology for today and tomorrow

The Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) in India is leveraging a diverse talented pool of 5,500+ engineers, technologists, and innovators to drive growth and innovation in the global aerospace sector. These engineers deliver cutting-edge R&D, innovation, and high-quality engineering work in global markets in traditional and emerging areas, leverage new-age technologies such as AI/ML, IIoT, Cloud, Model-Based Engineering, and Additive Manufacturing, to enhance quality, safety, and productivity for airline customers, shaping the future of aerospace in India for India, and the world.

People-driven culture

At Boeing, we believe creativity and innovation thrives when every employee is trusted, empowered, and has the flexibility to choose, grow, learn, and explore. We offer variable arrangements depending upon business and customer needs, and professional pursuits that offer greater flexibility in the way our people work. We also believe that collaboration, frequent team engagements, and face-to-face meetings bring diverse perspectives and thoughts – enabling every voice to be heard and every perspective to be respected.  No matter where or how our teammates work, we are committed to positively shaping people's careers and being thoughtful about employee wellbeing.

At Boeing, we are inclusive, diverse, and transformative.  

The Boeing India Engineering and Technology Center (BIETC) is looking for a highly-motivated Systems Engineering Manager for Airplane Systems. This position is located at Bangalore, Karnataka. A successful candidate will understand the importance of collaboration as these positions will focus on working directly with the Engineering Manager to deliver Engineering statements of work to meet the organizational goals.

Position Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of systems engineers to develop and handle product line system requirements. Decompose aircraft level requirements and/or customer use cases to product line level i.e. equipment / systems software level requirements and establish tracing
• Manages employees performing engineering and technical activities in the area of Systems Engineering
• Develops project or operational plans aligned with department's objectives. Implement plans to ensure business, technical and customer requirements are achieved. Assigns authority and responsibilities to employees to implement the plan. Reviews plans' execution, makes appropriate adjustments, and resolves issues. Monitors appropriate metrics to ensure performance to plan.
• Forecasts resource needs and makes hiring decisions. Coaches, counsels, mentors and provides developmental opportunities and job assignments to improve employee performance and expand capabilities. Ensures employees are working effectively with all development teams. Provides on-going developmental feedback. Implements company rules and policies regarding ethical behavior, safety, security, use of company property, time charging, etc.
• Provides technical direction and mentorship to team regarding approved processes, tools, technology and skills for own projects or processes. Communicates the development processes (including Iterative and Agile) to employees, as well as the role of the software and system engineers in these processes. Ensures workgroup products or processes meet customer, company, quality, industry and regulatory requirements. Provides approval of workgroup technical approaches, products and processes.
• Partner and engage with internal and external collaborators, maintain relationships/partnerships with internal customers, peers and partners to develop strategies, goals and objectives that are consistent with the organization's strategy. The position will be pivotal in creating and maintaining relationships with the US-based collaborators and working closely with those collaborators in planning and forecasting activities of the team as well as reporting requirements from collaborators.
• Provide periodic updates to senior management in the form of progress reports, project summaries, and other related documents.
• Must develop an innovative work environment leading to identification of opportunities for improvements in product, process, quality, and efficiency.
• Establish Point of contact for the system engineering activities for an equipment.
• Develop and handle system integration tests and results. Ensure successful system integration testing before software deliveries.
• Support SRR (Systems Requirements Review), PDR (Preliminary Design Reviews) and CDR (Critical Design Reviews).
• Support System architecture development through system analysis and technical expertise.
• Ensure quality of Equipment level software requirement and software test scenarios through reviews.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree / Mechanical Engineering is required as BASIC QUALIFICATION
• Experience in People Management, Performance Management
• Experience in application of SAE ARP 4754 for Systems Engineering aspects
• Exposure to SAE ARP 4761 for Safety Evaluations
• Excellent requirement writing skills.
• Experience in performing System Safety Assessments
• Support deliveries as defined in the data requirements list (CDRL) to the Boeing collaborators.
• Adapt Model Based System Engineering where applicable.
• Knowledge of DO178, DO254, DO160 standards
• Systems Thinking - Ability to understand the big picture and the inter-relationships of all positions and activities in the organization, including the impact of changes in one area on another area.
• Ability to see and understand the inter-relationships between components of systems and plans and anticipate future events.
• Analytical Skills - Skill and ability to: collect, coordinate, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources.
• Proven Systems Engineering experience with specific involvement in multiple phases of the program life-cycle, including early system design and development.
• Ability to effectively connect with engineers, executive and senior-level management, and non-engineering support staff to evaluate technical information and issues impacting design, production, and support of products, services, or other work is essential
• Solid understanding of model-based systems engineering is highly desired

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Experience with Systems Engineering tools and processes.
• Familiarity with other various engineering fields such as electrical, software, and electronic systems
• Familiarity with any of the following Model Based Systems Engineering concepts/tools is highly desired - SysML, CAMEO, Rational Rhapsody. 

Typical Education & Experience 

• Bachelor Engineering degree with 12 to 16 years' experience and/or Masters of Engineering with 11+ years of related experience in aircraft System development, Validation/Verification, Functional Integration and certification.

Relocation:

This position does offer relocation within INDIA.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Relocation:

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Security Clearance:

This position does not require a Security Clearance.

Visa Sponsorship:

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift:

Not a Shift Worker (India)

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