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Project Management Specialist 4 / 5

The candidate chosen for this position will serve as a Program Export Focal for KC-135 Programs. Boeing's export compliance strategy includes an organization in Corporate that has company-wide responsibilities for Export-Import (Global Trade Controls). Each business unit in Boeing also has embedded organizations that manage the responsibilities for export controls on behalf of those businesses. The individuals who perform this role report into the programs as Program Export Focals (PEFs) and perform this role full-time for IDS (Integrated Defense Systems) Program Management. This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate who, ideally, has experience or familiarity with export controls, but also has skills and interest related to Program Management and the way export control requirements and related schedules are actually implemented in the business. This position oversees execution of export control strategies.

This Program Export Focal (PEF) position is responsible for implementing export compliance processes and analyzing the program's statement of work in order to identify and address export compliance requirements. The candidate facilitates the development and integration of strategic license plans that enable the program to integrate its business opportunities and goals with schedules to obtain export authorizations and present plans to leadership for approval. The program export focal will utilize their program knowledge and interface with multiple functions to ensure export authorization request packages are complete, accurate and timely and that records in support of export authorizations are properly maintained.

The program export focal will leverage Program Management Best Practices (PMBP) to execute export control responsibilities, including integration into the Integrated Master Schedule, identification of risks, issues, and opportunities and the development/execution of mitigation plans as needed. The position will coordinate commitments with internal and external stakeholders, monitor day-to-day program export activities and advise program personnel on use of export processes and tools. The PEF coordinates and clarifies the analysis with business partners to develop and validate implementation plans. PEFs utilize management forums to communicate status information on commitments, compliance to plan, and process health measures. The position requires the ability to synthesize inputs from a variety of sources and build consensus, to understand and communicate requirements, and to develop plans and lead projects based on those plans. The program export focal will also represent their programs for IDS and enterprise activities as needed and the ideal candidate will provide coaching and guidance to less experienced program export focals and program personnel. The candidate will be a part of the IDS Program Export Focal community of practice where best practices and lessons learned are shared by PEFs across IDS programs.


Competencies



General


Building A Successful Team
Ensures that the purpose and importance of the team are clarified (e.g., team has a clear charter or mission statement); guides the setting of specific and measurable team goals and objectives. Helps to clarify roles and responsibilities of team members; helps ensure that necessary steering, review, or support functions are in place. Makes procedural or process suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions; provides necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to team accomplishments. Listens to and fully involves others in team decisions and actions; values and uses individual differences and talents. Shares important or relevant information with the team. Adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines; fulfills team responsibilities; demonstrates personal commitment to the team.

Continuous Improvement
Consistently and proactively reviews complex and/or specialized processes to identify gaps between requirements and current outputs within own work group, throughout the organization, and with external customers. Identifies potential conditions that contribute to gaps or key variances; explores complex relationships between conditions and effects; distinguishes causes from symptoms and identifies primary causes. Consistently and proactively generates ideas for solutions; analyzes the effect or impact of each solution; selects appropriate solutions; tests solutions; and gathers feedback from fellow project leads, internal employees and external customers on effectiveness. Reviews impact on baseline measures and modifies solutions as appropriate to ensure effectiveness.

Customer Focus
Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions as a project team leader; develops and sustains productive customer relationships as they relate to project team leadership responsibilities; actively seeks information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how project level actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists other project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.

Decision Making
Consistently recognizes a wide range of complex, specialized issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Steadily identifies the need for and collects information to better understand issues, problems, and opportunities. Regularly integrates complex information from a wide variety of sources; detects complex trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships. Consistently creates relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Consistently implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Regularly includes fellow project leads, employees across the organization, and 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. Technical


Analytical Skills
Basic - 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.
Preferred - Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the business unit level.

Project Leadership
Basic - Extensive and specialized ability to direct, delegate, and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of the overall large scale and complex projects. Extensive and specialized ability to identify and resolve project related issues and provide solutions and/or recommendations to ensure the successful completion of the project.
Preferred - Advanced/expert ability to direct, delegate, and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of enterprise wide and/or extremely complex large scale projects. Advanced/expert ability to identify and resolve any issues to ensure the successful completion of the project.

Typical Education/Experience



Level 4 - Bachelor's degree and related work experience, a Master's degree and related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Level 5 - Bachelor's degree and related work experience, a Master's degree and related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.


Other Job related information



The ideal candidate will have experience in one or more areas: export control background with emphasis on detailed knowledge of the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), experience with GS&S (Global Services and Support) business structure and concept of operations, experience in scheduling or project management, an active security clearance or ability to obtain one, and familiarity with Boeing export compliance processes and tools.


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