Sustainment Engineer - Nagoya, Japan

Company:

Boeing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha

Job ID:

00000431528

Date Posted:

2024-08-26

Location:

JPN - Nagoya, Japan

Job Description Qualifications:

Boeing Japan is currently seeking an experienced Project Engineer to join the Air Force Fighter and Strike Sustainment Engineering team within Boeing Global Services.

Position Overview: 

Boeing Global Services (BGS) has an exciting opportunity for a talented and highly motivated project engineer to join The Air Force Fighter & Strike Sustainment Engineering team in Nagoya, Japan as a Sustainment Engineer for the F-15 Japan program.  This position will serve as an on-site technical interface to Supplier, supporting the F-15 Japan Super Interceptor upgrade program, working closely with the F-15 Japan Lead Engineer in St. Louis. This position will have direct technical interface with Boeing Defense Service(BDS) counterparts, Program Management, and suppliers.

This challenging position is critical to the sustainment and success of the F-15 Japan platform. This is a great opportunity to obtain a critical role on an incredible program that is modernizing the historic F-15 into a modern war-fighting machine.

Position Responsibilities:

• Support engineering team and provide technical input to work products, including SOW and proposal development, change incorporation, and obsolescence
• Support F-15JSI issues as an on-site Boeing presence at Supplier site, providing technical interface for BGS engineering to Program Management, BDS, and the supplier.
• Change document and Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) development in support of fleet issue corrections, repairs, and product improvement redesigns.
• Coordinate retrofit plans, schedules, and upgrade requirements with multiple Boeing Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) such as design, strength, fatigue, hydraulics, flutter, and retrofit.  
• Ensure the technical correctness of offered solutions
• Perform timely root cause corrective action (RCCA) for engineering issues to improve first time quality

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Experience developing specifications, statements of work, and proposal estimates
• Experience coordinating with end user customers and suppliers
• Fluent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Native level of written and oral communication skills in Japanese
• Experience in aerospace industry

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Experience with technical oversight of suppliers
• 5+ years experiences with sustainment of military platform
• Experience supporting military aircraft modifications

Typical Education/Experience:

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+4 years' related work experience, Master+7 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

Location:

Nagoya, Japan

The selected candidate will be required to work on-site (with some flex) at Boeing Japan’s Nagoya office( One of supplier's office in Nagoya area).

Relocation:

Domestic Relocation assistance is a negotiable benefit for this position. (With some limitation)
Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.
Employer is not willing to sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Other job-related information:

This requisition is for a locally hired position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where the position is located. Benefits and pay are determined at the local level and are not on Boeing US-based payroll.

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

Relocation:

No relocation available

Export Control Requirement:

This is an export control position.

Safety Sensitive:

This is not a safety sensitive position

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Experience Level:

Individual Contributor - 4

Job Type:

Regular

Job Code:

6C1LI4 (6A3)