Continuing Airworthiness Capability Lead (Product Support Engineer)

The Boeing Company; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a strategic leader to enhance Continuing Airworthiness Management Support Services. In this pivotal role, you will oversee compliance, develop best practices, and ensure stakeholder engagement across various aircraft programs. You will drive continuous improvement and foster collaboration, while also identifying training needs and managing organizational responsibilities. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the aerospace sector, ensuring the highest standards of airworthiness and operational effectiveness. Join a forward-thinking team committed to innovation and excellence in aviation.

Qualifications

• Experience in aircraft operations and applying MAA Regulations.
• Strong communication skills and project management familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Lead CAMSS activities and ensure compliance with airworthiness standards.
• Develop growth strategies and enhance stakeholder engagement.

Skills

MAA Regulations

UK MoD airworthiness policies

Aviation Duty Holder requirements

Communication skills

Project management concepts/tools

Education

Engineering Council registration (CEng or IEng)

Job description

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.

This role demands a strategic leader with a strong commitment to compliance, continuous improvement, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring that Boeing’s Continuing Airworthiness capabilities meet the highest standards in the industry.

As the Continuing Airworthiness Capability and Area of Practice (AoP) Lead, you will play a pivotal role in managing and enhancing Continuing Airworthiness Management Support Services (CAMSS) across all BDUK Aircraft programs and sign off all documentation with regards to Capability and AoP.

Your responsibilities include:

• Leadership and Oversight: Serve as the AoP lead for CAMSS activities, ensuring clear assignment of responsibilities to suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP) and validating their competencies.
• Training and Development: Identify training gaps and collaborate with the Head of Department to address them effectively.
• Best Practices Development: Establish a Best Practice Functional Area of Practice to educate and integrate teams within CAMO and the broader Product Support (PS) function, fostering valuable connections across internal teams.
• Value Proposition: Define and communicate the value that Boeing brings to CAMO, developing an engagement plan to enhance collaboration.
• Policy and Compliance: Collaborate with program MILCAM’s and other program leads to ensure that BDUK's Continuing Airworthiness Support Services align with MAA MRP strategy, maintaining compliance and providing consistent processes as outlined in relevant platform Continuing Airworthiness Management Exposition (CAME) documents.
• Growth and Consistency: Develop and implement growth strategies to standardise Boeing’s approach to Part M support across all applicable platforms, leveraging innovative tools and technologies to enhance airworthiness and operational effectiveness.
• Management Plans: Provide functional Oversight and ensure the respect programs maintenance of BDUK Continuing Airworthiness Management Plans (CAMP) and associated Interface Control Documents for each Boeing-supported platform.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Enhance understanding and engagement among Boeing stakeholders regarding Part M activities, ensuring early consideration of airworthiness support needs for emerging technologies and services.
• Metrics and Monitoring: Guide the creation of Continuing Airworthiness Management metrics and dashboards to facilitate daily management, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Digital Integration: Develop a digital landscape for Product Support with integrated CAMO solutions. Work towards consolidating CAMO data requirements within the DA team dashboards to create a unified platform.
• Customer-Centric Approach: Ensure consistent tailored services provided to all customers based on contractual obligations.
• Organisational Structure: Define and clarify organisational responsibilities to support the Platforms now and during future re-organisations. Ensuring that the new program receives clearly defined and documented support, including Roles and Accountabilities (RAAs) for team members.
• Regulatory Resolution: Adapt current practices to operate within the FAA and MAA regulatory framework. Work with the MILCaM and Head of Airworthiness to determine where there is uncertainty in the regulations that requires clarification to deliver the program and provide early advice on potential solutions.
• Collaboration and Transition Planning: Establish communication plans and boundaries with the Part 145, Part 21 organisation, overseeing the transition of CAMSS from Acquisition to Sustainment.
• Expectation of travel occasionally.
• Can be flexible with location.

Required (Essential) Qualifications (Experience/Education/Skills):

• Experience in applying MAA Regulations and UK MoD airworthiness policies, processes, and culture in an aircraft operations environment.
• Awareness of MRP Part M requirements and procedures.
• Awareness of MRP Part 145 requirements and procedures.
• Awareness of MRP Part 21 requirements and procedures.
• Understanding of Aviation Duty Holder and Accountable Manager (Military Flying) requirements and procedures.
• Awareness of Type Airworthiness Authority requirements and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications (Experience/Education/Skills):

• Engineering Council registration (CEng or IEng) in an engineering field related to aerospace engineering.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively on planning and developing meaningful metrics to evaluate compliance status and provide performance visibility.
• Effective in executing opportunities to enhance strategies, processes, and project plans.
• Strong communication skills, technical competency, and familiarity with project management concepts/tools.

Applications for this position will be accepted until Jul. 01, 2025.

Export Control Requirements: This is not an Export Control position.

Relocation: Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Security Clearance: This position requires the ability to obtain a BPSS clearance.

Visa Sponsorship: Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift: Not a Shift Worker (United Kingdom)

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not accept unlawful discrimination in our recruitment or employment practices on any grounds including but not limited to; race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or other characteristics covered by applicable law.

We have teams in more than 65 countries, and each person plays a role in helping us become one of the world’s most innovative, diverse and inclusive companies. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and welcome applications from candidates with disabilities. Applicants are encouraged to share with our recruitment team any accommodations required during the recruitment process. Accommodations may include but are not limited to: conducting interviews in accessible locations that accommodate mobility needs, encouraging candidates to bring and use any existing assistive technology such as screen readers and offering flexible interview formats such as virtual or phone interviews.