Senior Program Quality Lead

Senior Program Quality Lead (PQL)

Join our team as a Senior Program Quality Lead (PQL) supporting the Advanced Technologies (AT) Strategic Business Unit. Program Quality drives customer, program, and business success by effectively synthesizing the support and results of all Quality and Mission Assurance (QMA) disciplines to ensure our customers receive quality products and services on time and on budget.

The PQL ensures that customer expectations and end-user objectives are satisfied, interfaces with program and functional partners, and leads teams focused on Quality and Mission Assurance capability, execution and performance excellence across the full product life cycle, including technical development, production/manufacturing, integration and test and sustainment, and ensures alignment with key industry standards and initiatives, including AS9100, AS9145 and APQP.

This is a Hybrid role based in Woburn, Massachusetts. Local travel to Tewksbury and Andover, Massachusetts, should be expected.

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 team of Quality professionals across product teams and disciplines.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners and customers to ensure alignment and ensure 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 ten (10) years of relevant experience in Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, and/or Operations; Program Quality Leadership experience is strongly preferred.
• Working experience with ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Experience providing quality technical guidance, achieving design, development, and/or manufacturing results.
• Experience with programs/contracts/efforts that have prototype, development, and/or early manufacturing development content.
• 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.

What We Offer :

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