Integrated Test Team Lead - Test & Validation Engineering
About The Position
Raytheon Technologies is seeking an Integrated Test Team (ITT) Test Lead to support the Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) program at its Forest, Mississippi facility. The role oversees system integration and acceptance testing in a high-visibility environment, collaborating across functional teams to ensure technical excellence, product quality, and customer satisfaction. The position manages production System Integration Location (SIL) execution, including system integration, system acceptance testing, and customer sell-off. It also leads daily production test operations, failure tracking and resolution, Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) efforts, test optimization, and continuous improvement. The Test Lead mentors junior test engineers and technicians, maintains configuration control of ITT hardware, test procedures, and software/tools, and provides status reports to program management, engineering, and the customer. Travel to Raytheon, vendor, and/or customer sites may be required, up to 20%. The role is onsite at Raytheon's Forest, MS facility.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM), typically, and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
- Experience in electrical, RF, or related engineering fields.
- Experience with radar systems testing.
- Active and transferable U.S. government-issued security clearance is required before the start date; U.S. citizenship is required for eligibility for a security clearance.
- Current Secret clearance; an active and existing clearance is required on day one.
Nice To Haves
- Experience employing and executing the RCCA process to resolve technical issues.
- Advocacy for process improvement and ability to develop plans to reduce defects and product variability using statistical methodologies.
- Leadership skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams to improve established processes across program areas.
- Concise written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in test optimization and continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Oversee production System Integration Location execution, including system integration, system acceptance testing, and customer sell-off.
- Implement failure tracking and resolution, data trend analysis, test optimization, test time reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Mentor junior test engineers and technicians on System Integration Location execution and career development.
- Partner with the Integrated Test Team SIL Manager and subject matter experts to ensure technical execution and product performance.
- Collaborate with engineering, quality control, procurement, manufacturing, and administrative organizations to achieve program goals.
- Manage daily SIL production test operations, failure tracking and resolution, and adherence to test duration allocations.
- Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action efforts for ITT test failures.
- Ensure configuration control of ITT artifacts, including hardware, test procedures, and test software/tools.
- Provide reports and status updates to program management, engineering, and the customer.
- Travel up to 20% to Raytheon, vendor, and/or customer sites as required.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available depending on position level and collective-bargaining coverage.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
