Justin Bailey Age: 28
The Boeing Company Renton, WA
UNDER THIRTY “I
have always shown curiosity in how various machines function,” recalls Justin Bailey. “As a child I used to take my toys apart. Sometimes springs would go flying and I
couldn’t put them back together just right but it made me more cautious for the next time.” That curiosity was given practical outlet at an early age. “Growing up on a farm I have had a lot of opportunity to learn how to fix various systems— mechanical, combustion, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electric—along with how they all interface,” Justin recalled. “I used to work side by side with machin- ists and mechanics, learning their best practices and troubleshooting methods.”
“A curiosity for how the natural world works has always drove me to engineering. I love to design, build and operate tools and equipment that I created from trying to troubleshoot and solve problems,” Justin said. That love has followed
would be deployed in several of the fuselage build up areas on the 747-8,” he said. Justin took the project from the initial stages of authorization and has been directly involved with all phases of it, leading a team comprised of several engineering functions—manu- facturing, quality, R&D, finance, and others. “At this point the project is well into the second phase of the four-phase, multi-year implementation, with positive results,” said Desonia.
What Justin likes about his work is that, he said, “Every day is challenging and unpredictable.” “Technology is evolving very rapidly and it is fun to discover new uses for the technology or how we can create parts that would have never been feasible ten years ago,” Justin said.
him from agriculture to aero- space. As a hardware man- ager on the 747-8, Justin “drove the development of a new measurement tool to help evaluate a specific type of potential non-conforming conditions that could result during the join of the major body sec- tions in the airplane,” said Chad Desonia, 787 Manu- facturing Engineering Manager at Boeing. “Justin not only generated the concept, but he designed and had the tool fabricated, tested and ultimately imple- mented. Today this tool is still in use and is a critical part of the evaluation process for each 747-8.” According to Desonia, that accomplishment made Justin a good fit when the program needed a manager to take over a highly funded project to “implement new nimble, automated equipment which
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“I used to work side by side with machinists and mechanics, learning their best practices and trouble- shooting methods.”
“At Boeing I would like to continue to introduce innovation into the current and future manufacturing processes. I like the fact that I know I’m making a differ- ence to make a product or process better than it was before,” he continued.
In the future, Justin hopes to have an even bigger connection to the aerospace industry. “I have a personal goal of one day I would like to design, build and fly an aircraft of my own design,” he said. “I have had the concept since graduate school, but would like to prove it out on a UAV prior to build- ing the full scale product.” In the meantime, “I like the fact that I get to see the product I work on fully throttle up and take to the sky every now and then when I am walking into work.”
“I am very excited for what the future of aviation holds,” Justin concluded. “Never let anyone convince you that just because something has never been done before means that it can’t be done.”
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