Senior Program Quality Lead onsite Tucson, AZ

RTX•Tucson, AZ

2d•$132,400 - $251,600•Onsite

About The Position

The Program Quality team in Tucson, AZ, has a vacancy for a Senior Program Quality Lead on the Coyote product line to serve as a key member of the program leadership team, ensuring successful program performance by ensuring conforming products and services through effective collaboration and compliance with processes and procedures. You will lead integration and execution of team of Quality professionals across product teams and disciplines and work collaboratively with cross-functional partners and customers to ensure alignment and ensure customer requirements are met.

Requirements

A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 7 years’ experience
Relevant experience is working in Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations and/or Program Quality Leadership
Working experience with ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
Experience providing quality technical guidance, achieving design, development, and/or manufacturing results.
Experience with programs/contracts/efforts that have prototype, development, and/or early manufacturing development content.
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

Experience as a Program Quality Lead, including cross-discipline knowledge/experience executing Hardware Quality, Software Quality and/or Supplier Quality (and/or Supplier Assurance) is highly desired for this role.
Experience with programs/contracts/efforts that require tailoring processes to support rapid development and deployment of complex/critical systems.
Experience tailoring quality flow downs to suppliers to balance speed vs. risk is highly desired.
Experience with rapid development and deployment programs/contracts/efforts
Experience negotiating Quality requirements and results with customers to support rapid system development and deployment.
Experience applying quality requirements and standards, including aerospace, commercial, defense, and/or space standards as well as internal policies, procedures and requirements.
Experience with contracts / contractual requirements, particularly on U.S. Government contracts.
Experience driving successful performance of major subcontractors, suppliers and/or IOTs.
Experience with defense systems throughout the product life cycle, including design, production, installation, integration, test and sustainment.
Experience identifying, evaluating, and documenting problems with requirements, program functionality, and/or software releases.
Experience defining and evaluating Quality metrics.
Experience collaborating cross-functionally.
Experience assessing Engineering work products (Peer Reviews, Configuration Control Boards, Code Reviews, Product Readiness and Sale, etc.) to identify and eliminate in-phase defects.
Experience participating in test preparation and execution to ensure requirements are verified.
Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity management.
Experience utilizing data, quality science tools and facilitating cross-functional teams to drive root cause, corrective action, and systematic improvement activities.
RTX CORE certified and proficient.
Earned Value certified and proficient.
Experience communicating verbally and in written communications and networking with other stakeholders

Responsibilities

Lead Quality and Mission Assurance efforts for program bids and proposals, gates and milestone reviews, risk and opportunity management, and program excellence processes.
Drive compliance with the Raytheon Quality Management System while driving continuous improvement.
Engage on both strategic and tactical levels, focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance, early engagement, influencing and providing differentiating quality value to program teams and customers.
Initiate and perform root cause analysis, facilitate corrective actions, and implement closed loop process controls to improve product/process predictability and capability.
Implement Advanced Product Quality Planning in accordance with AS9145, as applicable.