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

RTX • Cedar Rapids, IA

10d • 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
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director