Senior Quality Workplace Coach

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is looking for an Senior Quality Workplace Coach to support the Fabrication Quality Team out of Algona and Auburn, Washington.

In this role, you will partner with our fabrication teams to ensure individuals are properly trained and follow procedures according to Boeing standards. You will serve as a hands-on quality leader embedded on the shop floor, coaching frontline personnel and supervisors to consistently meet production, safety, and quality objectives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

The Fabrication Quality Team is a multi-disciplined group responsible for ensuring the integrity of metal and composite sub-assemblies produced in our fabrication shops. The team combines inspection and process-quality specialists, metrology technicians, trainers, and continuous improvement coaches who work collaboratively with mechanics, machine operators, engineering, and manufacturing leadership. Core activities overseen by the team include first-article inspections, in-process verification, final inspection, nonconformance management, root-cause analysis, corrective action implementation, and compliance to drawing requirements including GD&T.

As a Senior Quality Workplace Coach, you will help implement and sustain process controls, lead on-the-job training and competency assessments, champion use of inspection tools and metrology equipment, and guide teams through audits and readiness activities. You will also interface with supplier quality, engineering, and production planning to prioritize high‑risk areas, reduce variation, and ensure seamless handoffs across fabrication cells in Algona and Auburn. Your coaching will emphasize safety-first behaviors, precise documentation of findings, and development of front-line leaders to self-sustain improved quality performance

Position Responsibilities:

• Leads complex group work sessions selecting and using advanced Lean principles, processes and tools to implement the Boeing Production System for internal or external customers

• Conducts assessments of processes and practices for comparison to applicable standards and criteria

• Analyzes and interprets data

• Provides feedback on assessment results and identifies opportunities for improvement and potential areas of risk

• Works with organizations to develop strategies, plans and metrics to achieve business objectives

• Works at the appropriate level in the organization to implement strategies and plans

• Works under minimal direction

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite in Auburn, WA.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 5+ years of experience working in an aerospace, fabrication, or manufacturing environment

• 5+ years of experience in fabrication based roles

• 5+ years of experience working with MasterCAM

• 3+ years of experience using LEAN Manufacturing and/or Continuous Improvement practices and tools in the workplace

• 3+ years of experience mentoring, coaching, guiding, and leading teams

• 3+ years of experience utilizing and following detailed work instructions, reading and interpreting blueprints, drawings, or specifications

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 10+ years of experience in an aerospace, fabrication, or manufacturing environment

• 5+ years’ experience with the Boeing Production System

• Demonstrated experience using Rockwell hardness testers, Magna Mike (or equivalent gap/thickness/bore gauges), and CL5 (or similar shop floor inspection systems) — including setup, calibration verification, data capture and interpretation, troubleshooting, and applying measurement results to drive SPC, corrective actions, and hands on coaching of technicians.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace 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: 100,300 - 130,700

Applications for this position will be accepted until Oct. 10, 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

Relocation

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

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.

Experience Level
Individual Contributor
Contingent Upon Program Award
No, this position is not contingent upon program award

Schedule
Full time

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.