Aerospace Systems Safety Engineer Featured

Job Description

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The Boeing Safety, Security, and Airworthiness (SS & A) organization is looking for Airplane Safety Engineers (Associate, Mid-Level, Senior) to join the Design Build Safety (DBS) team in Charleston, South Carolina. Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Associate, Mid-Level, and Senior Airplane Safety Engineers.

Do you get energized by seeing our product get built and maintained? Are you passionate about product safety and eager to make a high-impact contribution to Boeing’s production and maintenance processes?

Join the newly formed Airplane Safety Team supporting the Enduring Design Build Safety (DBS) initiative, a key part of Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ (BCA) Safety and Quality Plan (SQP) following the Alaska Airlines 1282 incident. DBS is focused on eliminating or minimizing production and maintenance errors that can cause or contribute to failure conditions, ensuring the highest level of rigor and confidence in product safety.

As an Airplane Safety Engineer on the DBS team, you will have the opportunity to work independently while leading teams tasked to deliver urgent product safety solutions, mature robust processes, and help integrate Safety Management System (SMS) and Quality Management System (QMS) functions. This role offers high visibility and the opportunity to collaborate across design, manufacturing, and quality engineering discipline across the entire product life cycle.  The importance of this function can’t be overstated as you will contribute to Boeing product safety through Safety Assurance of our build and maintenance activities.

Engagement with company leadership and functional experts from across the company make this position highly invigorating. We have a close-knit group with mentors available for consultation.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead safety analyses for Design Build Assessments (DBAs) on BCA production and maintenance programs, including:

  • Creating safety packages summarizing hazards from Functional Hazard Assessments (FHAs), System Safety Assessments (SSAs), and in-service product safety events

  • Partnering with Design, Manufacturing, and Quality Engineering

  • Supporting Process Failure Modes Effect Analyses (PFMEA) and developing mitigations, controls, and barriers to prevent production and maintenance escapes

  • Presenting at Technical Design Reviews and serving as the authoritative expert on product safety documentation and containment actions

• Support or Lead Safety Risk Management (SRM) activities related to DBS findings, including hazard identification, risk assessment, bow-tie development, and mitigation strategies

• Strengthen SMS/QMS integration by advancing processes that:

  • Ensure appropriate SMS response to QMS signals

  • Assess process noncompliance for product safety risk

  • Identify production build issues with high safety severity or verification system failures

  • Evaluate potential systemic corrective actions beyond restoring the affected part

• Mature solutions for data monitoring, systemic hazard escalation, enhanced controls, and design practices to ensure product conformance. We coordinate closely with Boeing functional groups, management and executives, and suppliers to ensure all stakeholders are aligned with proposed solutions.

• Support updates to functional excellence (templates, trainings) based on findings

• Partner cross-functionally to increase visibility of product safety sensitivity across the digital thread and drive improvements to Boeing Safety Intelligence

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a high-impact, enduring team recognized for excellence in safety and quality. You will work alongside dedicated professionals nominated for the Safety and Quality Award Team of the Year, contributing directly to the safety and reliability of Boeing’s products.

We value a broad range of perspectives, background, and experience as essential to delivering the safest products possible. We support a collaborative environment and encourage a healthy work-life balance

If you are ready to help shape the future of airplane safety and quality at Boeing, apply today to join the Design Build Safety team!

A successful Associate candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work effectively with a multidisciplinary team

• Ability and willingness to take ownership of, and facilitate, work activities to ensure they are completed accurately, efficiently, and in a timely manner

A successful Mid-Level candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work effectively with a multidisciplinary team

• Intrinsic aptitude for taking initiative, leading cross functional teams and projects

• Ability and willingness to take ownership of, and facilitate, work activities to ensure they are completed accurately, efficiently, and in a timely manner

A successful Senior candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Strong ability to interact and communicate with Boeing senior management and technical peers from other functions

• Ability to lead, influence, and mentor a multidisciplinary team

• Intrinsic aptitude for taking initiative, leading cross functional teams and complex projects

• Ability and willingness to take ownership of, and facilitate, work activities to ensure they are completed accurately, efficiently, and in a timely manner

This position is expected to be 100% onsite.  The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at Charleston, SC.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science

• 1+ years related work experience

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Mid-Level: 5+ years related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Senior: 10+ years related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Positive “can-do” attitude towards working cross functionally with DE/ME/QE/Ops on a system or structure they are not experts on

• Experience as a Mechanical System Design and Analysis Engineer (6G/5B), Structures and Payloads Design Engineer (6G/5C), Structural Analysis Engineer (6G/5D), Electrical Design and Analysis Engineer (6B/1D), or Aerospace Systems Safety Engineer (6P/AS).

• Strong working skills with Systems Safety Analyses (SSAs), Functional Hazard Assessments (FHAs), Common Mode Analysis (CMA), and/or structural failure modes.

• MRB or Service engineering experience

• Basic understanding of Boeings intranet architecture (REDARs, ASTRO, CMES, MyBoeingFleet)

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay Range (Associate): $81,600 – $110,400

Summary Pay Range (Mid-Level): $97,750 – $132,250

Summary Pay Range (Senior): $119,850 – $162,150

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

Export Control Requirements: This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Export Control Details: US based job, US Person required

Education

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Required

Relocation

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

This position is for 1st shift

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.