CGO - Internal Capacity Assoc Director, Program Mgmt

Associate Director, Program Management

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 freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The Associate Director, Program Management reports directly to the Director of Program Management Internal Capacity with full accountability for program performance, compliance, and customer satisfaction. This role is responsible for managing all aspects of a program's life cycle, from start-up through delivery, ensuring alignment with company objectives, contractual and financial requirements, and defense accounting standards.

The Associate Director, Program Management is a leader of critical program and business projects responsible for executing capacity expansion, investment in capital projects, and affordability activities while supporting planning activities for future capabilities/value streams to meet expanded demand. The Associate Director, Program Management partners with the CGO and program Senior Leadership to set strategy, vision and direction for successful program execution.

This position is a full-time, on-site position based in a Raytheon hub (Tucson, AZ I Dallas, McKinney or Richardson TX I Huntsville, AL I Woburn, MA I El Segundo, CA).

Relocation is available.

What You Will Do:

• Serve as the accountable and responsible leader for program cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Establish and maintain financial integrity through compliance with all defense cost accounting standards (CAS), EVMS, and FAR/DFARS provisions.
• Drive disciplined program execution through risk management, schedule analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure resource planning and internal capacity allocation align with strategic business priorities.
• Coordinate and align interactions, dependencies, and transactions between Capacity Growth Office, Functional stakeholders and Programs.
• Develop and implement strategies to build the capacity and capability existing production lines to support upcoming demand increases and configuration updates.
• Establish and maintain program governance structures following CORE and RLPM, including consolidated metric dashboards, integrated master schedules, and enterprise-level progress reporting. Identify and implement key program metrics and actions by working collaboratively with the program offices within the Internal Capacity portfolio.
• Actively manage risk, opportunity, cost, quality, and schedule performance.
• Display strong communication, influence management, and presentation skills, and comfortably interact with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels of leadership.
• Ability to travel domestically as needed.

Qualifications We Require:

• A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years' experience
• Program/Project management experience.
• Experience with leading production programs, and/or execution of complex development programs with parallel active production.
• Prior experience with managing cost, schedule, and technical performance for large scale programs.
• Prior experience with Earned Value Management systems (EVMS) or similar tools or programs.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Program Management certification level 4 or ability to achieve within 6 months.
• Proven success creating and maintaining strong relationships with cross-program, cross-functional, and multiple customers.
• Experience managing complex test equipment efforts with direct application to active production lines.
• Experience working with Navy and other customers on government programs (large/complex) with direct customer interfaces.
• Ability to thrive in an innovative environment with an emphasis on strategic planning for future program operations.
• Ensure customer performance feedback and actions/requests are responded to in a timely, comprehensive, and accurate manner.
• Experience supporting RTX capital efforts.

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.

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