Quality Program Lead

At Raytheon, we help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. The Quality Program Engineer (PQE) supports the Advanced Technologies (AT) Strategic Business Unit by driving program quality and mission assurance across the product life cycle. Location Onsite, Massachusetts (likely Woburn or Tewksbury). What You Will Do Serve as a key member of the program leadership team, ensuring successful program performance by ensuring conforming products and services through effective collaboration and compliance with processes and procedures. Lead integration and execution of a team of quality professionals across product teams and disciplines. Work collaboratively with cross‑functional partners and customers to ensure alignment and that customer requirements are met. Lead quality and mission assurance efforts for program bids and proposals, gates and milestone reviews, risk and opportunity management, and program excellence processes. Drive compliance with the Raytheon Quality Management System while driving continuous improvement. Engage on both strategic and tactical levels, focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance, early engagement, influencing and providing differentiating quality value to program teams and customers. Initiate and perform root cause analysis, facilitate corrective actions, and implement closed loop process controls to improve product/process predictability and capability. Implement Advanced Product Quality Planning in accordance with AS9145, as applicable. Qualifications You Must Have Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience in quality, engineering, manufacturing, and/or operations. Working experience with ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 Quality Management Systems. Experience in providing quality technical expertise to ensure effective design/development and/or manufacturing results. Active and transferable U.S. government‑issued Secret security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance. Qualifications We Prefer Experience applying quality requirements and standards, including aerospace, commercial, defense, and/or space standards as well as internal policies, procedures and requirements. Experience with contracts/contractual requirements, particularly on U.S. Government contracts. Experience driving successful performance of major subcontractors, suppliers and/or IOTs. Experience with defense systems throughout the product life cycle, including design, production, installation, integration, test and sustainment. Experience identifying, evaluating, and documenting problems with requirements, program functionality, and/or software releases. Experience defining and evaluating quality metrics. Experience collaborating cross‑functionally. Experience assessing engineering work products (e.g., peer reviews, configuration control boards, code reviews, product readiness and sales) to identify and eliminate in‐phase defects. Experience participating in test preparation and execution to ensure requirements are verified. Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity management. Experience utilizing data, quality science tools and facilitating cross‑functional teams to drive root cause, corrective action, and systematic improvement activities. RTX CORE qualified and proficient. Earned Value certified and proficient. Experience communicating verbally and in written communications and networking with other stakeholders. What We Offer Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, parental leave, paid time off and holidays. Annual incentive compensation programs, subject to level and business unit. Relocation assistance is not provided for this role. Equal Opportunity Employer Statement RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act. #J-18808-Ljbffr