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Project Management Specialist 4/5

This position is for a Program Export/Import Focal supporting the 737 Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) Australian Wedgetail Program In-Service Support (ISS) Contract. This position will be at the Royal Australian Air Force Base in Williamtown, Australia. The individual will be embedded with and report to Wedgetail ISS Business Manager.

The Wedgetail ISS Program Export/Import Focal is responsible for implementing export and import compliance processes, and to identify and address export and import compliance requirements on the program. Will develop and maintain a strategic license plan that enables the program to obtain export authorizations that support its business opportunities and goals. Will interface with multiple functions to ensure export authorization request packages are complete, accurate and timely. Monitors day-to-day program activities to insure that program exports and imports are compliant with US and Australian export authorizations and company processes and procedures. Serves as a liaison between the program and the Boeing Global Trade Controls organization in Seattle and Washington DC. Trains program and functional personnel in the procedures and processes required to comply with applicable regulations and laws. Utilize management forums to communicate status information on commitments, compliance to plan, and process health measures. Will also represent IDS for enterprise activities as needed and must be willing to assume stretch tasks at the periphery of the job description, if required.

Leads others and directs all phases of assigned cross-organizational or business unit projects demonstrating proficiency in all project management areas in accordance with accepted project management standards in the industry (e.g., Project Management Body of Knowledge [PMBOK], ANSI/PMI 99-001-2004). Identifies key stakeholder project objectives and requirements. Ensures assigned individuals are executing the identified and assigned tasks and providing appropriate tracking and reporting per plan. Negotiates regulatory parameters in support of domestic and international projects with local, state, federal and international governmental agencies. Authorizes baseline plans and revisions. Provides in-depth analysis of project culminating with lessons learned and historical reports for incorporation into future project plans. Provides assessment of team performance to appropriate management. Consults with executive leadership and integrates organizational strategy and company initiatives to develop project deliverables.
Candidate must have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and a strong understanding of Boeing's Export and Import Management policies and procedures. Experience with a large international military program is required. Experience with program management and the AEW&C system and business structure is desirable.

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.


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.


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Position requires a current Secret Clearance - Eligibility to live and work in US Required or equivalent (Refer to Security Clearance Definitions link above). Applicants MUST include their security clearance level, investigation type and investigation date clearly on their resume. The offer for this position will be made contingent upon successful negotiations and contract award. International position is for a minimum of 24 months. Travel within Australia, may be required.


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