Denali Mechanical Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL)

Prattwhitney; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 157,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

401(k) match

Flexible work schedules

Employee assistance program

Parental leave

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Mechanical Integrated Product Team Lead, Associate Director, for its Strategic Strike portfolio. The role oversees all mechanical attributes of the weapon system, interfaces with multiple disciplines, and ensures design, integration, verification, and readiness for warfighters.

Onsite in Tucson, AZ, with leadership across IPTs and CPTs. The candidate will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage scope and budgets, and mentor early-career engineers.

Qualifications

• Typically Requires: Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
• Experience in at least 2 of the following areas: Mechanical development, integration, and qualification
• Structural / Thermal Analysis
• Mechanisms design and test
• Transition To Production (TTP) Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with Earned Value Management System (EVMS), Integrated Master Plan (IMP) / Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), and/or Risk and Opportunity Management.
• Experience and thorough understanding of Mechanical Engineering Product Development Cycle.
• Active and transferable Top Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date with the ability to obtain special program access prior to start date.

Responsibilities

• Develop, update and improve technical documentation for development and production efforts.
• Support Design and System Verification testing/Data collection.
• Support system performance analysis.
• Oversee modeling of the system using CREO.
• Participate in Failure Investigations.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer within and across IPTs/CPTs to include Cross-Functional collaboration and coordination.
• Facilitate and drive development efforts both within RTX and with our suppliers.
• Own the scope and budget of a large group of control accounts.
• Ensure technical rigor of documents.
• Coordinate across teams.
• Share program process knowledge.
• Mentor earlier in career engineers.
• Brief the mechanical development strategy for the program to customers and RTX senior leadership.

Job description

About the Role

At RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world‑class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

Raytheon’s Air & Space Defense Systems (ASDS) strategic business unit (SBU) specializes in multi-domain integrated air and missile defense, advanced sensors, space‑based systems, hypersonics, effectors and cyber solutions. Focused on program execution, business growth and the highest level of customer satisfaction, the ASDS team provides customers with unmatched capabilities of detection and sensing, command and control, and air‑to‑air, air‑to‑surface, and surface‑to‑air munitions to accomplish air, space and missile defense missions. Strike Initiatives, within ASDS, is our sub‑strategic business unit focused on air‑launched, penetrating effectors that provide highly versatile tactical capabilities and enable global strategic deterrence.

Raytheon’s Air & Space Defense Systems SBU Engineering Team is currently hiring a Mechanical Integrated Product Team Lead, Associate Director, for its Strategic Strike portfolio. This is an exciting and challenging environment where you will have the opportunity to work on a competitive pursuit to shape the solution to a unique mission area, taking that solution to a mature Technical Data Package and demonstrating its capacities to our government counterparts. Join our organization and oversee all Mechanical attributes of the weapon system while interfacing with a variety of engineering disciplines, subject matter experts, Chief Engineers, Chief Technologists, the customer, and so many more to ensure we design, integrate, verify, and strengthen our systems to work the first time and every time for our warfighters! This is an onsite role located in Tucson, AZ.

What You Will Do

Develop, update and improve technical documentation for development and production efforts. Support Design and System Verification testing/Data collection. Support system performance analysis. Oversee modeling of the system using CREO. Participate in Failure Investigations. Facilitate knowledge transfer within and across IPTs/CPTs to include Cross‑Functional collaboration and coordination. Facilitate and drive development efforts both within RTX and with our suppliers. Own the scope and budget of a large group of control accounts. Ensure technical rigor of documents. Coordinate across teams. Share program process knowledge. Mentor earlier in career engineers. Brief the mechanical development strategy for the program to customers and RTX senior leadership.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically Requires: Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
• Experience in at least 2 of the following areas: Mechanical development, integration, and qualification
• Structural / Thermal Analysis
• Mechanisms design and test
• Transition To Production (TTP) Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with Earned Value Management System (EVMS), Integrated Master Plan (IMP) / Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), and/or Risk and Opportunity Management.
• Experience and thorough understanding of Mechanical Engineering Product Development Cycle.
• Active and transferable Top Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date with the ability to obtain special program access prior to start date.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in STEM.
• Experience as a subject matter expert in technical briefs/ presentations, proposals, fracas.
• Demonstration and championing all of RTX values.
• Experience with CREO, cPDM and analysis tools.
• Familiarity with military systems; tactics, techniques, and procedures along with DoD customer infrastructure experience.
• Familiarity with system safety, reliability, configuration management, and evaluating / mitigating technical risks.

What We Offer

Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation. Relocation Eligibility – Relocation assistance is available for this role.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to:

• 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

Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective‑bargaining agreement. Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short‑term and/or long‑term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective‑bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

Salary

The salary range for this role is 157,200 USD - 298,800 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Location and Role Type

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products. Candidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.

This position requires a security clearance. DCSA Consolidated Adjudication Services (DCSA CAS), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website here: https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10978.htm

Application Window

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

Equal Opportunity Statement

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

Company Overview

Privacy Policy and Terms: RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.