NAM Operations Director
About The Position
Raytheon is seeking a Director, Operations for the Naval Air Missiles (NAM) portfolio. This role is responsible for leading end-to-end operational execution across major missile programs including Tomahawk, AIM‑9X, JSOW, and NSM. This role ensures that programs meet production, quality, cost, and delivery objectives while driving significant operational scale-up, with production increasing across multiple facilities. The position partners closely with senior RTX leadership, government stakeholders, VP-level customers, and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with a rapidly growing portfolio. The role operates in a high‑visibility, high‑pressure environment requiring exceptional leadership, and innovation capabilities. Director, Operations for the Naval Air Missiles portfolio to be located onsite in Tucson, Arizona. The successful candidate will be responsible for directly leading a team of Program Operations Managers while overseeing a dynamic and complex program. This individual will be responsible for developing and executing program, operations strategies, Long-range planning, material forecasting oversight, quarterly EACs reviews, Metrics and Data Analytics, and the overall execution of the program(s).
Requirements
- A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 14 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 12 years experience
- Experience managing production deliveries and performing Estimate at Complete (EAC) activities
- Professional experience leading a defense production program within an operations environment
- Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading personnel and teams in matrixed organizations as a collaborative leader that shares program information and requirements to enable success.
- Material Sales forecasting and execution experience
- Experience managing teams using data driven analysis of production deliverables
- Previous experience with recertification processes and warranty deliverables
- Experience leading cost reduction or process improvement initiatives
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Program Management, Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), Engineering, Quality, Production Control and Procurement to ensure successful supplier/factory management and execution in supporting program needs and requirements
- Long range planning, AOP responsibility and generation, Quarterly EAC review’s, and Risk & Opportunity Management
- Monitor and manage key performance metrics including Hours Per Unit (HPU) and On-Time Delivery (OTD).
- Customer Proposal & Gate Review Support
- Develop and execute operations strategies which support Customer requirements and meet Program objectives
- Issue/Conflict resolution within organizations, between organizations and with suppliers and/or customers
- Travel Domestically/Internationally, as required
- Lead a team of Operations Managers
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
