Flight Simulator Design Technical Specialist 3'4 Job in Tukwila, Washington US
Flight Simulator Design Technical Specialist 3'4
Location Tukwila, WA Security Clearance Required? No Security Clearance Required about security clearance definitions Position Description Lead a cross-functional team that delivers 787 aircraft hardware to support the build of customer flight simulators, employing a process that partners internal and contracted organizations. Analyze customer requirements to identify the exact hardware requirements. Manage Purchase Requisition development and verify accurate translation into Purchase Orders. Track Supplier commitments against actual Supplier performance and customer requirements. Confirm actual receipt of hardware components at warehouse, and subsequent kitting and shipping to the Training Device Manufacturer (TDM). Work with TDMs to support partial shipments, workarounds, and scheduling issues. You will have personal accountability to assure that all required Boeing and Regulatory Processes are followed in the handling of aircraft parts. As project manager, develop and sustain productive customer relationships. Establish customers and their needs as the primary focus of actions. Must have or be willing to gain specialized knowledge of simulator build process elements (e.g., manufacturing testing, approval) and related aircraft hardware and/or data to understand customers circumstances, problems, expectations to position yourself and the team to be able to respond quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems. Develop project status and performance metrics to determine and implement appropriate process improvements Establish and maintain good interpersonal and effective working relationships with and among team members, Supplier Management, Suppliers, Warehouse personnel, Training Device Manufacturers, and airlines. Consistently put new complex/specialized knowledge, understanding, or skill to practical use on the job; analyze the organization, potential external partners, and own area to identify key relationships and strategies that should be initiated or improved to further the attainment of own area's goals. Must have experience in creating comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules, taking into consideration how project level actions or plans will affect customer programs. Present project level information to customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities. Competencies General + Build Positive Relationships Builds effective working relationships within the work group, with interorganizational employees, and occasionally with external customers. Probes for and provides information to clarify situations. Seeks and expands on original ideas, enhances others ideas, and contributes own ideas about the issues at hand. Places higher priority on team and organization goals than on own goals. Seeks agreement from work group, with other employees, and occasionally with external customers to support ideas or take partnership-oriented action; uses sound rationale to explain value of actions. Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. + Communication Clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Keeps the audience engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Frames the message in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Accurately interprets messages from others and responds appropriately. + Cross Functional Partnerships Not Available + Customer Focus Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive customer relationships; uses information to understand customers circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; periodically becomes involved in sharing information with customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists higher graded employees and/or project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs. + Decision Making Recognizes a wide range of potentially difficult issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and occasionally with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Identifies the need for and collects information to better understand difficult issues, problems, and opportunities. Integrates information from a wide variety of sources; detects trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships; creates relevant options for addressing difficult problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates and/or makes recommendations for decision criteria based on issue complexity; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Includes fellow work group members, employees across the organization, and occasionally external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions. + Project Management Experienced in creating comprehensive project schedules identifying time frames for key project milestones. Directs and manages more complex project schedules; independently identifies project resource requirements, may collaborate with others on the most complex projects assigned or assist more experienced employees in complex large scale projects. Ability to accept, direct and perform responsibilities and work assigned tasks as a project team member in support of the overall project; leads and directs the activities and resources of assigned projects and supports higher graded employees in more large scale and complex projects. Technical + Analytical Skills Basic - Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the department level. Preferred - Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources with clients, customers and/or suppliers. + Customer Knowledge Basic - Complete knowledge of techniques to help identify a customer's organization, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, problems, and other constraints in order to provide effective product support and technical issue resolution. Preferred - Extensive, specialized knowledge of techniques to help identify a customer's organization, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, problems, and other constraints in order to provide effective product support and technical issue resolution. + Flight Simulator Build Process Basic - Complete knowledge of simulator build processes (e.g., manufacturing testing, approval) and related aircraft hardware and/or data. Attends industry meetings and acts as SME for the group. Preferred - Extensive, specialized knowledge of simulator build processes (e.g., manufacturing testing, approval) and related aircraft hardware and/or data. Attends industry meetings and acts as SME for the group. + Proj Sched Resource Mgmt Basic - Complete ability to create comprehensive project schedules which identify time frames for key project milestones, direct and manage more complex project schedules, independently identify project resource requirements, collaborate with others on more complex projects assigned, and assist others in complex large scale proje