Senior Program Quality Engineer

Senior Program Quality Engineer (PQE)

At RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedom and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world.

We are seeking an onsite Senior Program Quality Engineer (PQE) to serve within the Tomahawk program Quality team. The PQE will support production and recertification contracts ensuring that program goals are accomplished while staying compliant to AS9100 requirements. The successful candidate of Quality and Mission Assurance (QMA) Professionals will help safeguard the effective integration and implementation of RTX processes and procedures within the constraints of Raytheon Command Media.

The ideal candidate will have a dynamic mindset and the ability to influence peers and offer creative results to complex challenges that arise during the planning and implementation phases of production in support of munitions acceleration execution. The candidate will collaborate closely with all cross-functional teams including systems, electrical, mechanical, operations, supply chain, and systems integration and test to guarantee that mission goals and contractual requirements have been met.

This position is an onsite role in Tucson, Arizona.

What You Will Do:

• Serve as a member of the Tomahawk Program team, ensuring successful program performance, deliver conforming products/services through effective collaboration and compliance to processes and procedures.
• Oversee integration and implementation of cross-functional teams to ensure alignment to quality and customer requirements per the program quality plan.
• Serve as a program quality liaison across customer organizations (Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and United States Government (USG)), as well as relevant factories and engineering labs as first responder for quality issues and concerns related to development and production products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partner with program leadership teams to define and implement quality improvement strategies.
• Support supplier quality and supplier engineering efforts to help ensure compliance with the supplier quality plan.
• Review and approve changes to the technical data package, assign actions when necessary and complete actions in a timely manner when assigned. This includes but is not limited to: Peer reviews, Engineering Review/Change Control Board (ERB/CCB) and/or Design reviews.
• Ensure all development hardware (Engineering, Proof of Design and Proof of Manufacturing) are appropriately documented in the quality history records and align to quality and customer requirements per the program quality plan.

Qualification You Must Have:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience in the following areas;
• Working experience with Quality Management Systems, to include ISO 9001, AS9100 and/or AS9102.
• Working experience guiding teams in failure and root cause analysis, corrective and preventative actions.
• Working experience interpreting technical drawings.
• Working experience with technical data package review (TDP) and document repository.
• Working experience exercising judgment and making decisions, with appropriate supervisory intervention, as an individual contributor in a dynamic team environment
• Active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

What We Offer:

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.