Principal Manufacturing Systems Integration Engineer
About The Position
The Raytheon Capacity Growth Office (CGO) is seeking a Principal Manufacturing Systems Integration Engineer to deploy, integrate, and validate manufacturing capabilities that create production capacity across CGO programs. The position focuses on manufacturing optimization, hands-on implementation, and technical integration of processes, workflows, tooling, instructions, and supporting systems to ensure factory readiness and performance. The engineer works collaboratively across engineering, operations, quality, test, program office, supply chain, and other technical functions to identify constraints and implement improvements that increase takt performance, yield, flow, and throughput. Solutions may include new processes, redesigned workflows, tooling, digital enhancements, or automation. The role supports capability deployment and validation through readiness activities such as dry runs, pilot builds, workstation trials, and characterization builds, and drives corrective actions and rapid issue resolution to protect schedule, quality, and manufacturing readiness.
Requirements
- Typically requires a STEM degree and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and a minimum of 5 years of experience.
- Experience in manufacturing engineering, production system integration, factory development, or hands-on manufacturing optimization.
- Active and transferable U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance required before the start date; active and existing clearance is required on day one.
- U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
- Ability to identify, characterize, and address manufacturing constraints using analytical and hands-on methods.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate and validate manufacturing processes, tooling, workflows, and instructions.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting factory startup, rate ramp, major transitions, or capacity expansion initiatives.
- Background in Lean manufacturing, takt-based flow, or continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience with process characterization, capability analysis, or yield improvement activities.
Responsibilities
- Identify and characterize manufacturing constraints related to cycle time, variability, flow breaks, material movement, operator workload, and process capability.
- Lead and participate in cross-functional problem-solving efforts to eliminate systemic barriers to capacity creation.
- Develop and execute corrective action plans using data, engineering principles, and on-the-floor validation.
- Verify that implemented solutions measurably improve flow, yield, takt adherence, or throughput.
- Integrate and optimize manufacturing workflows, tooling, instructions, and layouts to create production capabilities ready for execution.
- Implement improvements that enhance throughput, stabilize workflow, and increase capacity, including takt strategy adjustments, refined work instructions, optimized layouts, and upgraded tooling.
- Translate manufacturing readiness needs into technical requirements for processes, tooling, instructions, layouts, and production workflows.
- Support deployment, setup, and prove-in of new or enhanced manufacturing capabilities across CGO programs.
- Conduct dry runs, pilot builds, workstation trials, and characterization builds to validate process capability, flow integrity, operator effectiveness, and production reliability.
- Identify bottlenecks through process observation, data analysis, modeling, and cross-functional engagement, aligning corrective actions with Lean principles, operator-centered design, safety, and takt objectives.
- Coordinate technical inputs across engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, test, and program leadership during readiness events and factory expansion efforts.
- Troubleshoot emergent manufacturing issues and drive rapid resolution to protect schedule, readiness, quality, and flow.
- Identify and escalate manufacturing readiness risks and collaborate with stakeholders on resolution paths and mitigation strategies.
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
Principal
