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Date Posted:

2024-06-03

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HVT01: S&IS (FUS) - Vergennes 100 Panton Rd, Vergennes, VT, 05491 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Join our dynamic team as the Program Chief Engineer, leading the technical forefront for Airbus Commercial & Military Programs. In this pivotal role, you'll excel in building robust customer relationships, driving business growth, and executing strategic initiatives. You'll manage and inspire a talented engineering team while serving as the primary interface between our company and Airbus UK. Your extensive background in fuel systems will enable you to provide expert guidance and innovative solutions, rapidly adapting to new technology applications. Leveraging your expertise and connections with other European customers, you'll broaden our product portfolio and open new avenues for business growth.

As the primary engineering interface, you'll lead the Program Office and Business Development teams for New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, ensuring projects meet technical, quality, schedule, and cost objectives. You'll be responsible for the performance of the engineering team and effective resource management, communicating needs to various disciplines to ensure projects are adequately staffed and exceed customer commitments. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of our programs, work with cutting-edge technologies, and advance within a global company renowned for its commitment to excellence. Be part of a supportive team that values your insights and fosters a collaborative approach to problem-solving. If you're a visionary engineer with a passion for leading technical projects and driving customer success, we invite you to take the next step in your career with us. Apply today and become a key player in our journey to excellence.

What YOU Will Do:

• Key engineering interface with assigned customers for project portfolio.

• Key engineering interface to Business Development for guiding the advancement of products to meet customer needs and expectations.

• Provides support to production issues as needed.

• Overall technical leader and authority to the program, customer, partners and regulatory agencies.

• Drives overall technical execution of projects in the portfolio under his/her leadership.

• Ensures program scope is understood, and identifies overall budgetary needs for successful project execution.

• Drives execution and performance measurement of the CPI/SPI process to ensure all program requirements and objectives are met on schedule and within the authorized budget.

• Ensures the IPTs develop, maintain and communicate resource demand forecasts to disciplines (functional management), and global engineering centers required to support the program.

• Develops overall program milestones and master schedules.

• Develops a schedule for program technical reviews, and ensures design reviews are executed to standard work.

• Executes the program in accordance with Collins Management System, and reviews and approves deviations and task tailoring.

• Review and approval of formal program technical communication and documentation with customer.

• Supports the PMO change management process with impact assessments, trade studies, and assertions.

• Supports product line strategy development and technology roadmapping events.

• Ensures the development and management of technical risks and develop and executes mitigation plans.

• Ensures design-to-cost targets are achieved.

• Ensures requirements standard work is executed, and all technical requirements are met, and successful integration is achieved with the customer’s system.

• Ensure compliance with international trace compliance polices and procedures.

• Ensures the protection of Collins and safeguard of customer and supplier/partner intellectual property.

What YOU Will Learn:

• You will learn to manage complex projects by overseeing technical execution, resource management, and budgetary needs. This includes mastering the development of program milestones, master schedules, and ensuring all program requirements are met on schedule and within budget.

• You will enhance your ability to build and maintain robust customer relationships, serving as the primary interface between the company and key customers like Airbus UK. This will involve understanding customer needs, managing expectations, and effectively communicating technical information

• By providing expert guidance on fuel systems and other technological applications, you will refine their skills in offering innovative solutions and rapid adaptation to new technologies. You will also gain experience in leading engineering teams and driving the technical execution of projects

• You will learn to align engineering efforts with business development goals, guiding the advancement of products to meet customer needs and expectations. This includes supporting the PMO change management process, contributing to product line strategy development, and participating in technology roadmapping events.

• You will gain a deeper understanding of compliance with international trade policies and procedures, safeguarding intellectual property, and managing technical risks. You will learn to develop and execute mitigation plans to ensure successful integration with customer systems and adherence to requirements

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience

• U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee or asylee) or eligible to obtain necessary export authorizations required https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Strong aerospace systems engineering background with applicable technical knowledge in aircraft fuel systems preferred

• Strong customer and internal stakeholder relationship

• Strong communication skills and ability to work across the organization and various disciplines, including Engineering, Programs, Quality and Operations

• Project management and performance measurement and tracking methods and tools

• Strong process skills and familiarizaiton with lean initiatives and policy deployment

• Ability to prepare and deliver key program metrics and internal/external presentations

• Management of core team members and IPT leaders

• Experience running multiple complex projects that include teams from multiple locations and countries

  What We Offer:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Student Loan Repayment Program

• Life insurance and disability coverage

• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection

• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits

• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning

• Adoption Assistance         

• Autism Benefit

• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions

• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program

• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits

• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services

• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program

• And more! 

  Learn More & Apply Now!

  Mission Systems:

  Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

  Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success . We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

  #reempowerprogram

  This role is also eligible for the Re-Empower Program. The Re-Empower Program helps support talented and committed professionals as they rebuild their capabilities, enhance leadership skills, and continue their professional journey. Over the course of the 14-week program, experienced professionals will gain paid, on-the-job experience, have an opportunity to participate in sessions with leadership, develop personalized plans for success and receive coaching to guide their return-to-work experience. Upon completion of the program, based on performance and contributions participants will be eligible for a career at RTX. ​

  Minimum Program Qualifications:

• Be on a career break of one or more year at time of application

• Have prior experience in functional area of interest

• Have interest in returning in either a full time or part time position

• Please consider the following role type definitions as you apply for this role.

  Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other – propel us all higher, again and again.Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day.

The salary range for this role is 118,000 USD - 246,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.