Associate Director, Environmental Effects Engineering Strategy & Integration Lead (Onsite)

RTX•Cedar Rapids, IA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Strategy & Integration Lead for Environmental Effects Engineering (EEE) is the strategic integrator, operational coordinator, and senior advisor to the EEE Leader, responsible for driving cohesion and performance across an enterprise-wide network of engineering test laboratories. As EEE expands to incorporate more environmental (EMI/EMC, TEMPEST, Dynamics, Climatics, Nuclear effects) and related test labs across Collins Aerospace, the Strategy & Integration Lead ensures unified operations, shared standards, and harmonized execution across a significantly broader organizational footprint. Building on the current multi-site model (Cedar Rapids, Largo, Marlborough, Melbourne) this role enables EEE to transition into a single, integrated, company-wide testing organization capable of supporting both classified and unclassified programs, spanning defense, commercial, and cross-business-unit applications. The Strategy & Integration Lead ensures operational excellence, drives strategic initiatives, and builds the enterprise muscle needed for process harmonization, technology investment planning, workforce alignment, and capability integration across a growing number of lab sites.

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
Previous Project Management Experience is required
Previous Leadership Experience is required

Nice To Haves

Strategic enterprise thinking to coordinate across a large, distributed technical organization
Strong operational leadership with expertise in engineering lab environments
Ability to influence and align leaders, technical fellows, engineers, and technicians across many sites
Comfort with navigating highly technical domains and classified operations
Data-driven mindset for interpreting metrics across multiple test disciplines and facilities
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build positive, productive relationships across sites, disciplines, and levels of the organization
Consistently maintains a constructive, solutions‑oriented attitude, even when navigating ambiguity or competing priorities
Ability to foster trust and credibility across engineering, program, and lab operations teams without direct authority

Responsibilities

Partner closely with the EEE Leader to define and execute a unified vision for an enterprise-wide test organization, integrating all Collins test laboratories under a common operating model
Lead the development and rollout of multi-site strategies including common processes, asset sharing, cross-site work-share planning, and standardization across all lab types and disciplines
Support long-range planning for future lab network expansion, consolidation where appropriate, and alignment of site capabilities with enterprise needs
Create a unified operational ecosystem across a large and growing set of environmental, EMI/EMC, TEMPEST, dynamics, climatics, and nuclear effects labs
Establish common standards for documentation, safety, SCOUT-based request workflows, quality systems, and execution discipline across all labs
Lead deployment and governance of baseline metrics for cost, utilization, throughput, and schedule performance across the expanded network
Build business cases for capital investment, modernization, or expansion of key equipment (e.g., chambers, high-power RF systems, shakers, thermal systems
Align multi-site workstreams, ensuring resource balance and coordinated execution of complex test campaigns across multiple labs
Support integration and modernization initiatives such as TEMPEST chamber expansion, facility upgrades, and cross-site harmonization projects

Benefits

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!