
Senior Project Engineer - Phantom Works
Berkeley, MOFull-time$165–223K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s Phantom Works seeks a Senior Project Engineer to support a proprietary program in Berkeley, Missouri. The role leads engineering execution across technical, cost, schedule, and performance objectives, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and program stakeholders. It is expected to be 100% onsite, may require travel up to 20%, and requires an active U.S. Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.
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Senior Project Engineer - Phantom Works
Company: The Boeing Company
Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Phantom Works is seeking a Senior Project Engineer - Phantom Works to join our team in Berkeley, MO in support of a proprietary program. This role offers the opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges and influence next-generation defense capabilities.
Position Responsibilities:
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Serve as the lead engineering focal point responsible for execution of program technical, cost, schedule, and performance objectives.
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Lead cross-functional Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to execute program requirements and achieve key milestones and deliverables.
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Manage technical scope, integrated schedules, budgets, cost performance, Estimates at Completion (EACs), and program execution plans throughout the program lifecycle.
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Lead system and subsystem integration across engineering disciplines to ensure technical baseline alignment and program success.
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Track and communicate Technical Performance Measures (TPMs), program health metrics, risks, opportunities, and execution status to program leadership.
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Proactively identify, assess, and resolve technical and programmatic issues impacting program objectives.
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Lead technical planning, trade studies, design reviews, and technical decision-making activities supporting customer and program requirements.
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Assess impacts of Statement of Work (SOW) changes and coordinate modifications to technical scope, resources, schedules, and deliverables.
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Ensure requirements traceability, configuration control, and technical baseline integrity throughout program execution.
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Serve as the primary technical interface to program leadership, customers, and key stakeholders while providing leadership across a matrixed engineering organization.
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Lead Internal Research and Development (IR&D) planning and execution, and coordinate supplier management activities in partnership with the Supply Chain team.
This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at Berkeley, MO.
Travel may be required up to 20% of the time; Domestically and/or internationally depending on business needs.
This position requires an active U.S. Top-Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
Potential signing bonus for eligible/qualified external candidates.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
- 14 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience
- 3+ years of experience integrating designs from multi-skill teams (electrical, mechanical, software).
- 5+ years of experience in multi-discipline engineering project management.
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
- Experience working across a team representing multiple skill areas with internal and external resources and customers.
- Experience with complex systems development and integration.
- Experience with leading project execution to complete the work statement.
- Experience with implementation and maintenance of systems engineering tools, schedules, and metrics.
- Experience with Model Based Engineering.
- Experience with EVM.
- Familiarity with aircraft systems and multidisciplinary engineering domains such as mechanical, electrical, and software engineering.
- Experience working within a digital engineering environment.
Conflict of Interest: Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
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.
Total Rewards: 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.
The Boeing 401(k) helps you save for your future, with contributions from Boeing that can help you grow your retirement savings. Our best-in-class retirement benefit features:
- Best in class 401(k) plan: we'll match your contributions dollar for dollar, up to 10% of eligible pay with Immediate 100% vesting
- Student Loan Match: The Boeing 401(k) Student Loan Match allows eligible enrolled U.S. employees to have their qualified student loan debt payments counted, along with any match-eligible contributions they make, for purposes of determining the Company Match to employees' Boeing 401(k) accounts.
Summary pay range: $164,900 - $223,100
Language Requirements: Not Applicable
Education: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent
Relocation: This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
Export Control Requirement: This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Safety Sensitive: This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.
Security Clearance: This position requires an active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
Visa Sponsorship: Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Contingent Upon Award Program This position is not contingent upon program award
Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America)
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How this job compares
Set against the 4,942 open Project Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$165–223K/yr
- Missouri median$104–149K/yr32 salary ranges
- US median$96–143K/yr2,639 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $194K, is 55% above the Missouri median midpoint ($125K) — in the top quarter of Project Engineer salary ranges in Missouri.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 89 open Project Engineer jobs in Missouri and 4,942 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Missouri
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 14 years of experience — more than three in four Project Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,895 postings).
- Education
- 3,037 of the 4,942 open Project Engineer jobs (61%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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