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This Senior Manager role is the deputy to Manufacturing Site Services (MSS) for Boeing Wichita and is responsible to lead all activities related to strategic planning resulting in the reliability, and automation of manufacturing equipment in a large-scale, highly complex production environment. This role owns strategy, execution, and continuous improvement programs that maximize equipment availability, safety, product quality, and productivity while minimizing lifecycle cost and downtime. The position combines technical leadership, project and program management, people leadership, and cross-functional coordination across engineering, production, quality, and supply chain.
Job Responsibility:
Develop and execute the plant-level maintenance and automation strategy aligned with corporate objectives, capacity plans, and capital investment roadmap
Drive resiliency of The Production System through Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) best practices to minimize fire-fighting
Build a multidisciplinary team of maintenance, automation, controls, and reliability engineers, technicians, and contractors
Sponsor and deliver automation projects: process automation, robotics, vision systems, data integration, and MES/OT convergence
Assess current equipment portfolio for optimal cost effectiveness and sourcing strategies
Lead root cause analysis and major incident response around equipment failure
implement sustainable corrective actions and lessons learned
Enhance KPIs and dashboards for equipment availability (OEE), MTTR, MTBF, work backlog, wrench time, maintenance cost, and project ROI
report performance to senior leadership
Manage maintenance and automation budgets, CAPEX requests, and contractor/vendor relationships
ensure cost control and schedule adherence
Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, regulatory, and quality standards
lead continuous improvement and standardized work for maintenance activities
Partner with IT to drive digitalization efforts for maintenance
Collaborate cross-functionally to support new product introductions, line reconfigurations, and process scale-up
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Controls, Industrial Engineering, or related field
10+ years of progressive managing machine maintenance and automation in a large scale, highly complex manufacturing environment with at least 5 years in a leadership role
Proven experience managing machine maintenance and automation projects
Strong knowledge of maintenance strategies (TPM/TPM II, RCM), predictive maintenance technologies, and CMMS (e.g., IBM Maximo, SAP PM)
Demonstrated success delivering capital automation projects and managing vendor/contractor partners
Excellent people leadership skills with experience managing multi-shift operations and unionized workforces
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills
PMP or equivalent certification desirable
Effective communicator capable of engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership
Deep knowledge of Lean practices and/or Six Sigma and application to improve business results
Nice to have:
Master's Degree
What we offer:
competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
health insurance
flexible spending accounts
health savings accounts
retirement savings plans
life and disability insurance programs
paid and unpaid time away from work
generous company match to your 401(k)
industry-leading tuition assistance program pays your institution directly
fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
up to $10,000 gift match when you support your favorite nonprofit organizations