Engineering Change Control & Scheduling Manager

Overview: This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units (“Spirit Commercial”). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, one of Boeing’s three business units and the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. Spirit Commercial’s core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions. Responsibilities: Position Responsibilities: Lead, coach, and develop Engineering Change Control and Engineering Scheduling employees, including performance management, training, work assignments, and succession planning. Establish team priorities, balance workloads, and maintain adequate coverage to support program commitments. Identify staffing and capacity needs and escalate constraints. Oversee the creation, coordination, tracking, and closure of Baseline Control and Change Management (BCCM) requests and gIWS/DWS work statements. Ensure work statements and change packages are reviewed throughout their lifecycle for completeness, accuracy, required coordination, supporting documentation, and compliance with applicable processes. Oversee administration of internal engineering change numbers and maintenance of the change-numbering log. Ensure engineering changes to established configuration baselines follow approved change-control processes and maintain complete records, decisions, implementation status, and closure evidence. Oversee creation and maintenance of SAP projects and associated design and manufacturing schedules using work statements, approved scope, and scheduling changes. Proactively monitor engineering release schedules, identify potential delinquencies, and coordinate recovery actions to improve release predictability and support program milestones. Ensure timely, accurate reporting of engineering change status, release schedules, workload, performance metrics, and emerging risks. Represent both teams in Program Change Boards, program reviews, audits, and other applicable forums. Coordinate resulting actions through completion. Partner with Engineering, Program Management, Configuration Management, Data Management, Engineering Data Control and Release, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Contracts, Finance, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and support approved change implementation. Maintain standard work, work instructions, training, and process controls. Lead continuous improvement in change management, scheduling, reporting, and tool usage. Promote safety, quality, people focus, trust, ownership, and innovation through daily leadership and decision-making. Qualifications: Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience): Experience leading employees, teams, or projects, including establishing priorities, coordinating workloads, and delivering results. Working knowledge of engineering change processes, configuration baselines, work statements, and change traceability. Experience using enterprise systems and reporting tools to manage schedules, records, and performance. Ability to identify risks, resolve process issues, and coordinate actions across multiple functions. Strong communication, organizational, and analytical skills, with the ability to communicate status and concerns clearly to employees, stakeholders, and leadership. Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): Prior experience as a people manager. Experience with SAP project creation and maintenance, engineering release schedules, BCCM requests, and gIWS/DWS work statements. Experience supporting Program Change Boards, customer requirements, audits, and aerospace quality processes. Demonstrated success improving process flow, schedule performance, data accuracy, or change-control compliance. Experience in engineering change control, configuration management, engineering sched…

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