Senior Manager, Quality and Mission Assurance

RTX•McKinney, TX

4d•$132,400 - $251,600•Onsite

About The Position

Raytheon is seeking a seasoned professional for the role of Senior Manager, Quality and Mission Assurance (QMA). This leadership position is within the Advanced Technology Strategic Business Unit (SBU), specifically supporting the Advanced Sensors (TX), Emerging Systems (CA), and Advanced Systems (CA) Directorates. The role requires strong collaboration, business acumen, expertise in engineering and manufacturing, risk management, and quality systems compliance. The selected professional will partner with proposal and program managers, acting as the voice of the customer to ensure mission success. This position reports directly to the Director of Quality & Mission Assurance (Q&MA) for the Airborne Spectrum Dominance (ASD) SSBU within the Advanced Technology (AT) SBU. The role involves both tactical and strategic engagement, collaborating with the Program Management Office (PMO) and peers to ensure execution effectiveness and drive efficiency improvements. Key responsibilities include ensuring delivered products and services meet customer and Raytheon requirements, managing program risks and opportunities, providing technical oversight for Q&MA issues, assessing system and mission readiness, and fostering strong customer relationships.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of ten (10) years of demonstrated experience in Engineering, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, or a related field.
Working experience in design and development within systems, hardware (electrical or mechanical), or manufacturing engineering.
Experience in predictive and proactive measures and metrics assessments and actions to improve performance or mitigate problems.
Experience in Earned Value Management and Cost Account Management.
Experience with estimating and new business proposals, including Basis of Estimate (BOE) Certification.
Experience executing in highly technical failure investigations, developing robust corrective action plans and / or membership in failure review board.
Experience interfacing and communicating with internal and external customers, and suppliers.
Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret 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

CORE Champion, Industry Six Sigma, Green Belt Certification, or similar certification.
Experience in AS9100/ISO 9001 and American Society of Quality (ASQ) Certification.
Quality and Mission Assurance Certification and experience with the application of Quality & Mission Assurance methods and techniques in a subcontract management environment.
Experience with Raytheon gating or program phasing (nonrecurring/recurring activities).
Experience deploying elements of APQP (DFMEA, KC, PFD, PFMEA etc.) on development and production programs.

Responsibilities

Collaborate effectively with the ASD Advanced Sensors Management Teams in Dallas Texas and the ASD Emerging Systems and Advanced Systems in El Segundo California, to shape and execute the product line growth and margin expansion strategy.
Shepard our Customer Oriented Results & Excellence (CORE) Operating system, applying its tools and concepts to continuously improve business outcomes, program execution, guidelines and processes implementation.
Support the shaping of the technical and management baseline, early in pursuit, to enable delivery of solutions optimized to balance technical performance, schedule, quality, and affordability.
Ensuring inclusion of quality scope, plans, and budgets in program estimates and proposals.
Responsible for effective Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) and Failure Review and Corrective Action System (FRACAS).
Conduct and guide effective investigations and analysis that result in the resolution of complex problems impeding product line success, including tactical arrest and containment, as well as executing any required read-across to the relevant functional or business processes.
Collaborate with ASD Design Engineering, Operations and Supply Chain in developing a robust product maturation and transition strategy.
Enable the implementation of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), New Product Introduction (NPI), Manufacturing Readiness Assessment (MRA), Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) to inform transition to production strategy decisions.
Accountable for quality performance to financial Estimate and Completion (EAC).
Establish QMA resource requirements, secure budgets, manage program Q&MA tasks to meet budgets, while continually driving innovative solutions and quality effectiveness.
Collect, evaluate, and report critical Q&MA metrics necessary to monitor the health of the Raytheon Quality Management System (QMS) and cultivate the performance of the various Quality & Mission Assurance disciplines.