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Structure & payload design engineer

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Boeing

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United States , North Charleston

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Job Description:

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us. Boeing Commercial Airplanes is hiring for an Associate/Mid-Level Design Engineer to work at our North Charleston, SC location. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact the design of our aircraft. As an Associate / Mid-Level Structures Design Engineer on our team, you will have an opportunity to support fuselage design projects that span a wide variety of opportunities including sustaining design and factory support, customer and fleet support, oversight of our 787 Partner engineering teams and the supply chain. This individual should be able to manage a wide variety of concurrent work statements, including long and short flow assignments.

Job Responsibility:

  • Develops, integrates and documents structural requirements to establish the system design
  • Develops, maintains and modifies structural 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
  • Supports performance, integration and analysis of tests to validate and verify components meet requirements and specifications
  • Supports management of 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)
  • 2+ years of aerospace engineering, design criteria and engineering release processes
  • 2+ years of experience with 3-D modeling (Autodesk Inventor, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, SketchUp, Pro-E, 3DX, etc.) and/or equivalent combination of additional education and relevant experience
  • Experience working within a cross-functional team

Nice to have:

  • 3+ years of experience within Boeing Commercial Airplanes with exposure to Boeing Design Methods
  • Demonstrates good problem-solving skills and critical thinking
  • Working knowledge of standard business software (MS Office Suite)
  • Ability to use a variety of media to clearly convey information and ideas to a variety of audiences
  • Ability to meet plan delivery deadlines when assigned
  • Experience with CATIA V5 / ENOVIA
  • Project Management Experience
  • Experience with composite and metallic designs
  • 787 Airframe Experience
What we offer:
  • 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
  • Relocation based on candidate eligibility

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 06, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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