International Commodity Supplier Assurance Engineer - US based

RTX•Clovis, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

The International Commodity Supplier Assurance Engineer (CSAE) is the primary quality interface between Raytheon’s organization and the external supply base. This role is responsible for ensuring suppliers meet requirements, resolving quality issues, providing performance feedback, and implementing continuous improvement ideas to ensure on time, compliant delivered hardware. This role requires excellent communication skills, meeting facilitation, and the ability to create and sustain healthy supplier relationships. The CSAE is a key player as the liaison between the supply base and Raytheon’s internal functional groups for activities such as international supplier source selection, risk mitigation, strategic planning, and development of key international suppliers. The CSAE represents Raytheon professionally and supports Raytheon’s Vision, Values, Strategy and Goals in the supply base. This position is a remote, US-based role, with flexibility in home location. You are responsible for managing and developing a portfolio of suppliers across the European region. Frequent international travel is expected, up to 50%, as required to support material acceptance and supplier engagements according to program and supplier schedules.

Requirements

Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum of 5 years prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 3 years’ experience
Relevant experience is work in engineering, quality, or supplier management/auditing
Experience managing and leading suppliers with Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) methods such as 5 Why, Fishbone, etc.
Experience working process improvement initiatives
Experience in collecting, analyzing, and presenting data for briefs and presentations to various internal and external stakeholders
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

Nice To Haves

Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
Six Sigma, Lean and / or American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification (CQE, CQM/OE, CSQE, CQA, CRE, etc.)
Experience in Department of War product and process oversight including requirements, build, integration, test and delivery
Strong technical engineer with excellent communication skills that exhibits presence and influence and self-managed technical contributor
Experience working within commercial and aerospace / defense regulations and standards - AS9100, AS9102, ISO-9000, AS9145
Experience with industry technical standards (such as ANSI, CMMI, ASTM, etc.)
Experience with hardware inspection techniques
Experience in collaborating with engineering, manufacturing operations, and supply chain
Close proximity to a major/INTL airport

Responsibilities

Developing process improvement strategies and risk mitigation activities to be utilized across supply base
Closely interface with external/internal customers and key partners to establishing effective relationships
Must have the ability to manage issues at multiple stakeholder levels
Leveraging quality assurance to influence business decision-makers, ensuring efforts are focused on the customer’s priorities and mission success requirements
Interpreting purchase order quality notes and quality requirements to ensure subcontractor/supplier understanding
Ensuring flow down of product requirements both internally and to sub-tier suppliers and ensuring compliance with quality requirements
Assessing subcontractor/supplier quality capabilities throughout the program life cycle to achieve full program objectives
Identifying supplier risk and systemic performance issues ensuring root-cause analysis and corrective solutions are identified and implemented with closure plans
Driving continuous product / process improvements using statistical / analytical improvement tools such as Six Sigma and lean methodologies
Working with other Quality functions and Cross Business Teams (CBTs), to affect rapid closure of issues utilizing analytical capabilities and communications skills
Support the First Article Verification and Source Inspection
Manage Supplier Requests including presenting to the Change Control Board (CCB) and Customer.
Perform Raytheon Enterprise Supplier Assessment (RESA) Chapter 1-7 assessments
Manage the Technical Data Package(s) being manufactured at supplier.
Perform Supplier Engineering Price Analysis Support (SEPA) and Cost Analysis Technical Evaluation Requests (CATER) for Supply Chain
Understand Raytheon Global Export Management System (RGEMS) and License and Agreements for (EXIM).
Perform Capacity Analysis
Perform Hardware Acceptance Reviews on deliverable hardware.
Travel 50% internationally – valid passport required