F/A-18 & EA-18G Senior Project Manager

F/A-18 & EA-18G Senior Project Manager Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for a F/A-18 & EA-18G Senior Project Manager to join the Air Dominance F/A-18 & EA-18G team in Berkeley, Missouri. This position will be responsible for managing planning and execution of several key evolving capabilities that support the United States Navy (USN) F/A-18 and EA-18G portfolio. While primary work scope will be focused on the EA-18G Growler development programs and projects, the role will also support broader service life assessment, and modification efforts across the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G portfolio.   We are seeking a proactive self-starter and highly motivated leader to join our team. In this challenging and complex role, you will be creating and managing project baselines to support the capabilities being developed in the portfolio.  The ideal candidate will work under minimal supervision, be biased towards action, independently seek out and identify solutions, build strong internal and external relationships, collaborate respectfully and professionally, and empower the team to meet commitments.   Program management best practices, project management skills, strong communication skills, and constructive engagement with all stakeholders (internal partners, suppliers, and customers) are key to success in this position. The position will help manage customer engagement, program performance, and planning activities associated with current and future contracts and efforts. This includes supporting proposal development, cost and schedule coordination, and preparation for future program execution and stand-up efforts. The role will also partner with technical teams to help ensure successful execution of work scope and alignment across dependent efforts.  Position Responsibilities: • Leads, develops, coordinates, integrates, analyzes, and maintains integrated plans and schedules for complex projects, programs and change driven activities in accordance with project management industry • Leads studies/analysis (trend, variance, impact), reports, risk assessments and planning efforts to determine impacts, constraints involving product development, production rates, process improvement, program initiatives • Identifies risk and opportunity potential, develops mitigation planning and refines the business case • Develops and establishes lead time requirements • Facilitates and ensures integration of project/program plan, schedules, change and baseline management, processes, techniques considered to be best practice across the industry • Acts as primary project contact to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives • Directs all phases of projects or subsystems of major projects from inception through completion • Coordinates commitments with internal and external stakeholders to fulfill strategies Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience): • This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An Interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post Start is required • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent or higher • Experience supporting projects or programs utilizing Earned Value management and Risk, Issues and Opportunity (RIO) management to drive program performance • Experience working with multiple internal or external stakeholders (i.e. business partner, customer, Finance, suppliers) in planning and executing projects or transactions • Experience leading through influence and partnering with cross-functional teams on projects, transactions or initiatives • Experience working in ambiguous and fast-changing environments • Position may require travel up to 25% of the time domes