Mission Assurance Coordinator – Mid-Level
Boeing
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Bristol • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Mission Assurance is a proactive discipline promoting first time mission success through early identification of risks, issues and technical opportunities throughout the product lifecycle.
- Deliver and mature BDUK’s Mission Assurance capability.
- Focus on completing the Mission Assurance strategy, associated process documentation and action plans, embedding those practices across programmes, and supporting wider engineering governance activity.
- Work with engineering leads, quality and safety teams, and programme stakeholders to assure technical compliance and mission success through effective independent review, metrics, root cause problem solving and continuous improvement.
- Lead the completion and publication of the Mission Assurance strategy, concept of operations and accompanying action plans that reflect recognised industry and Boeing best practice.
- Develop options and implementation plans to deliver the strategy across the engineering function and programmes.
- Develop, author and maintain Mission Assurance policies, core processes, work instructions, checklists and tools for use by programmes and governance forums.
- Provide practical tailoring guidance so programmes can adapt Mission Assurance in proportion to lifecycle phase, product complexity and regulatory interface.
- Provide coordination and secretariat support for engineering governance activities and act as a focal point between engineering leads, quality and safety functions.
- Plan, coordinate and support independent assurance reviews; ensure appropriate root cause and corrective/preventive action problem-solving is applied to prevent recurrence of critical or intolerable failures.
- Define, collect and analyse Mission Assurance and engineering metrics to provide management visibility, identify trends and drive continuous improvement actions.
- Work with programme teams, safety, quality, supplier management and customers to ensure technically compliant solutions and a consistent approach to assurance across programmes and regulatory domains.
- Facilitate cross-team coordination to integrate Mission Assurance workstreams with programme delivery.
Requirements
- Practical experience across some or all areas of systems engineering (requirements, interfaces, architecture, V&V, integration of specialities).
- Experience in establishing or improving assurance, quality or governance processes within an engineering environment.
- Knowledge of root cause methodologies and corrective/preventive action processes.
- Experience using metrics to monitor project/status and drive improvement.
- Strong written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to translate technical outcomes for senior non-technical audiences.
- Proficiency with common office productivity tools.
- Experience working within an aviation Safety Management System or comparable regulated sector.
- Ability to work collaboratively with geographically dispersed and multidisciplinary teams.
- Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related discipline.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.
- This position requires the ability to obtain a BPSS clearance.
- Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
systems engineeringrequirementsinterfacesarchitectureverification and validation (V&V)integration of specialtiesassurance processesquality processesgovernance processesroot cause methodologies
Soft skills
written communicationverbal communicationstakeholder managementcollaborationproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementcoordinationadaptabilityleadershiptechnical translation
Certifications
degree in Engineeringdegree in Systems Engineering