Kimberley Smith: Vice President of Environment, Health and Safety ...

Biography
The Boeing Company
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Kimberly A. Smith
Vice President of Environment, Health and Safety
Engineering, Operations & Technology
Kim Smith is vice president of Environment, Health and Safety for The Boeing
Company, the world’s largest aerospace company.
Appointed to this position in December 2011, Smith is responsible for leading
Boeing’s environmental sustainability efforts, including continuously reducing the
environmental footprint of its global operations, products and services as well as leading
Boeing’s workplace safety programs and driving efforts to reduce workplace injuries to
zero.
Smith reports directly to John Tracy, Boeing chief technology officer and senior
vice president of Engineering, Operations & Technology.
Prior to her current assignment, Smith was a director in Boeing Commercial
Airplanes’ Supplier Management organization and served as the company’s program
executive to Spirit AeroSystems. Named to this assignment in May 2009, she was
responsible for all contracting efforts, supplier development, strategy development and
performance tied to Spirit. This included oversight of Spirit AeroSystems’ increased
production of 737 fuselages and 747, 767, 777 and 787 structural components to meet
an unprecedented demand for Boeing airplanes.
Smith originally joined Boeing in 1997, and has held a number of key positions at
Boeing Commercial Airplanes including:
Leading both the Auburn Machining and Emergent Operations and the
Advanced Metal Structures units. Auburn Machining and Emergent
Operations, with presence in Auburn, Everett and Renton, Wash., provides
production and emergent parts and services to all Boeing Commercial

Airplanes programs and customers around the world. Advanced Metal
Structures is an industry leader in developing and producing super-plastic
formed parts from titanium and other exotic hard metals.
Senior management positions in Quality Assurance with both the 737
program and at BCA’s Fabrication Division.
Production engineering support for the Renton Wing Responsibility Center.
Manufacturing Research and Development for the 737 and 757 programs.
Between 1999 and 2002, Smith worked at GKN Sinter Metals, a division of GKN
plc, in Michigan, and served as plant manager. GKN Sinter Metals produces powdered
metal parts for automotive and a wide range of other industries. As plant manager, she
was responsible for all aspects of business, including manufacturing, quality, production
engineering, materials management, facilities and finance.
Smith earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Michigan State
University and an Executive MBA from Seattle University.
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Publish date: January 2013
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