Product Safety Fellow

RTX•US-WA-REMOTE, WA

8d•$168,000 - $320,000•Remote

About The Position

The Technical Fellow will serve as a senior leader within the Product Safety and Sustainability organization as an RMS Discipline Chief for key business portfolios, guiding technical excellence across Collins Aerospace. This role ensures consistent, compliant, and state of the art safety engineering practices; drives harmonization of processes, tools, and training; and provides strategic oversight for major programs and discipline chiefs. The Technical Fellow leads resolution of critical safety issues, shapes industry standards, partners with customers, and mentors engineers across the organization. This role is critical to advancing and elevating the RMS discipline’s capabilities enterprise‑wide. This role can be worked remotely in the U.S.

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
Experience and knowledge across aircraft systems
Experience performing safety assessment process at aircraft, system, and product levels
Aircraft certification and experience working with aircraft OEMs and airworthiness authorities
Experience in leading large teams of reliability, maintainability, & safety analysts
Application of 1309 regulations and guidance, ARP4761, ARP4754, and MIL-STD-882E
Experience in allocating, validating, and verifying safety requirements and assumptions for aircraft design, production, test, operation, and maintenance
Experience with CAFTA or similar Fault Tree analysis tools
Experience with engineering digital lifecycle management tools
Experience preparing and presenting technical information to peers, to all levels of internal management, and to external customers
Experience coordinating multiple projects and complex engineering activities while balancing priorities and schedules with key stakeholders
Knowledge of in-service safety standards (e.g. ARP5150) and continued airworthiness regulations, guidance, and analysis
Knowledge in application of development assurance standards (e.g. DO-254, DO-178, DO-297) and applicable regulatory guidance.
Microsoft Office tools

Nice To Haves

Experience with agile development principles
Experience with modeled based development methods and tools
Experience with Design & Manufacturing Safety Management Systems (SMS) regulations, guidance, and practices
Experience with Human Factors, Information Security, and Environmental Qualification and their interfaces with the system safety assessment process
Experience in investigating and leading cross-functional teams for safety escapes and occurrences for root cause and corrective action

Responsibilities

Act as an RMS Discipline Chief for key business portfolio(s).
Responsible for technical quality and consistency within portfolio, ensuring regulatory and customer specification compliance, application of lessons learned, and use of standard work and tools
Approve RMS plans and engage with programs during gate/milestone reviews
Contribute to RMS Discipline Steering Council (DSC) to harmonize and standardize the state of the art in methods, training, and tools
Lead Working Groups to for DSC specific initiatives
Develop and Instruct safety training within the RMS discipline and for engineers across engineering disciplines
Lead significant development and in-service safety issue resolution
Engage with customers in establishing partnerships for shared success in RMS
Develop, harmonize, and maintain process, training, and tools for the RMS discipline
Contribute to and lead key industry standards committees.
Lead, develop, and provide oversight of RMS Discipline Chiefs and program leads in needed portfolios
Mentor and coach to the whole RMS organization as needed
Assess discipline gaps and enablers within portfolios; roadmap solutions and capabilities; and promote standard skills, practices, tools, and lessons learned across the discipline

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
Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs